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Stuart Stevens

Thursday 2nd of October 2025

2016 Presidential election In the end, the Republican Party rallied behind Donald Trump because if that was the deal needed to regain power, what was the problem? Because it had always been about power. The rest? The principles? The values? It was all a lie. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election When you learn that the bank you borrowed money from is actually owned by a drug cartel, should your first reaction be, “Well, we got a good interest rate”? The simple reality is that the Republican Party was in buiness with Russian intelligence efforts, what used to be known as the KGB, and precious few leading the Republican Party seen to give a damn. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election This was their [Republicans'] moment to stand for something, and they chose to stand for reelection. Let us remember.  Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democratic Party The rejection of [George] Wallace [in 1964] was as much a statement for the Democratic Party as the acceptance of Trump by the Republican Party. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
Fox News These days the branding of Fox News as “Fair and Balanced”  often seems primarily to serve the purpose of proving that irony is not dead. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
Race What happens if you spend decades focused on appealing to white voters and treating nonwhite voters with, at best, benign neglect? You get good at doing what it takes to appeal to white voters. That is the truth that led to what is famously called “the southern strategy.” That is the path that leads you to becoming what the Republican Party now proudly embraces: a white grievance party. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
Republicans Party What happened to the Republican Party is that slowly over half a century the kooks and weirdos and social misfits of a conservative ideology started discovering that they could force reasonable people to support unreasonable positions through fear. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
Selfie I probably represented the worst of the American political system. I was a guy who was drawn to politics because of campaigns and not government. Stuart Stevens © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Jeb Bush lost [in the 2016 presidential primaries] for many reasons, but the base one is that he was running to win a race in a party that no longer existed. He was like a guy who showed up with a tennis racket at a bowling alley. Jeb Bush portrayed by Stuart Stevens © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot [It] was the “Contract with America” election that made Newt Gingrich into the Death Star of the Republican Party. No single political figure better illustrates the predicate for Donald Trump than Newt Gingrich. Newt Gingrich portrayed by Stuart Stevens [1994 election] © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The Republican Party is the frog carrying the scorpion of Grover Norquist across the river. Grover Norquist portrayed by Stuart Stevens © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump was the moral test, and the Republican Party failed. It's an utter disaster for the long-term fate of the Party. The Party has become an obsession with power without purpose. Republican Party portrayed by Stuart Stevens © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot There is nothing strange or unexpected about Donald Trump. He is the logical conclusion of what the Republican Party became over the last fifty or so years, a natural product of the seeds of race, self-deception, and anger that became the essense of the Republican Party. Trump isn't an aberration of the Republican Party; he is  the Republican Party in a purfied form. Donald Trump portrayed by Stuart Stevens © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot When you make political ads, half the fun is wondering if the other guy will be dumb enough to take the bait. Trump never disappoints. That dog chases every car. Donald Trump portrayed by Stuart Stevens, 9:51 PM - May 24, 2020, commenting on Trump's angry tweet about a Biden ad showing him socially distancing by playing golf during a pandemic © 2020 Kwiple.com
State of the union Donald Trump has always benefited from the inability to imagine Donald Trump. It was unimaginable that a man who talked in public about having sex with his daughter would be the Republican nominee for president or that he would win. It was unimaginable to me that Republican Senators and elected officials would not concede an election that wasn't even close. North of 300 electoral votes, eight million more votes, but that's what happened. Stuart Stevens, April 20, 2022, once a Republican campaign adviser © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpism One of the hallmarks of the Trump era is the alacrity with which intelligent people embrace stupidity. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
 
Voting Does some illegal voting happen? Sure, just as elephantiasis does occur in America. But should elephantiasis be the focus of the National Institutes of Health instead of cancer? Probably not. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com