The Conspiracy to End America Quotes

“It’s often said that Donald Trump has a cultlike following. But that’s far too benign. The film Star Wars has a cultlike following. Taylor Swift has her cult of “Swifties.” A political organization that has no platform other than loyalty to the leader is not a cult, it’s an autocratic movement. As Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism:”
― Stuart Stevens, The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy

“Reagan’s final speech as president was another ode to immigration: “We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people—our strength—from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation.”
― Stuart Stevens, The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy

“This will continue until it no longer can. Campaigns never end because they want to; they end because they lose, or they run out of money. As long as the money continues to support the party that has adopted Trumpism, it will only grow more powerful. No anti-democratic movement becomes more democratic once in power.”
― Stuart Stevens, The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy

“A functioning political party will include different views and the diversity of those opinions can be a great strength. But there will be lines that cannot be crossed and still maintain the support of the party. Calling rape “inconvenient” should be unacceptable for any candidate in any party. But if your candidacy is funded by a single deep-pocket donor who supports your positions, all the guardrails are removed.”
― Stuart Stevens, The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy

“On January 5, Mitch McConnell went to bed as majority leader of the U.S. Senate. A day later, he was a minority leader running for his life in his own office. But he still refused to convict Trump. Why? Fear. Can there be any greater example of cowardice than refusing to stand up to the man who sent a violent mob into your place of work intent on killing you and your coworkers?”
― Stuart Stevens, The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy

“Fear is the organizing emotion of authoritarianism, just as hope is the defining element of democracy.”
― Stuart Stevens, The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy

“As Donald Trump defended the results of his disastrous trade policy, he warned his followers: “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.” As George Orwell predicted in 1984, “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― Stuart Stevens, The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy

“It is exactly that shared sense of victimhood that has defined the MAGA movement and driven the Republican Party toward autocracy. It reflects a complete collapse of the values that the Republican Party once espoused as foundational.”
― Stuart Stevens, The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy

“after four years, the rate of deportation had fallen over 50 percent lower under Trump than Obama. When”
― Stuart Stevens, The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy

“In his 1946 essay “The Prevention of Literature,” George Orwell described the process. “Totalitarianism demands, in fact, the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth.”
― Stuart Stevens, The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy

“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. —Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United”
― Stuart Stevens, The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy