The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy by Stuart Stevens EPUB
“This is the first must-read of the 2024 election cycle if you want to understand the stakes.” –Nicolle Wallace
Former chief Republican strategist, Lincoln Project adviser, and
bestselling author of It Was All a Lie, Stuart Stevens offers an
ominous warning that the GOP is dragging our country toward
autocracy—and if we don’t wake up to the crisis in our system, 2024
may well be our last free and fair election.
Today’s Republican party is not a “normal” political party in the
American tradition. It has become an autocratic movement masquerading
as a political party. As Stuart Stevens argues in THE CONSPIRACY TO
END AMERICA, if we look away from that truth, we greatly increase the likelihood that the America we love will slip away, never to return.
Whenever a democracy slides into autocracy, there are five critical
elements at work: financers, propagandists, party support, legal
theories to legitimize, and shock troops. THE CONSPIRACY TO END
AMERICA examines each of these driving forces on the Right and makes
clear how they are working in concert to end our democracy as we know
it. In the tradition of It CanÂ’t Happen Here and On Tyranny, THE
CONSPIRACY TO END AMERICA is a blinking red distress call about the
dark intentions lurking within StevensÂ’ old party and a rallying cry
to beat back this perilous threat and save the Republic. ____________________________________________
There are parallels with all the Five Eyes Countries, as well as
others. The Republican Party has been regarded as an exemplar of right
and far right legitimacy, but even while the Republican Party in the
USA has been captured by crazies, it is still copied and followed to
an extent by Conservative parties in other countries.
It is interesting to look for measures of autocracy - one measure is
given here: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-polity?tab=chart&country=AUS~NZL~CAN~GBR~USA
where it is perceived that both the UK and USA have dropped recently
in terms of how democratic they are,
and here: https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores?sort=asc&order=Country
which shows scores for "Freedom" of
Australia 95
Canada 98
New Zealand 99
United Kingdom 93
United States 83
and from here: https://freedomhouse.org/country/new-zealand/freedom-world/2023
we see that New Zealand misses on a perfect score through:
"Concerns include discrimination against the Maori and other minority populations, as well as reports of foreign influence in politics and
the education sector."
Our most autocratic party is clearly ACT, followed by NZ First,
National, Labour and The Greens (leaving aside the smaller parties)
it is not surprising then to find that The Taxpayer Union (a funding
front for both ACT and National) assisted and promoted "Freedumb"
protests as part of it's disinformation attacks on Labour; wrongly
claiming libertarian principles and "freedom of expression'' as an
excuse, merely as a way to attack the government. Essentially both
those parties embraced the dishonesty of the Trump Republican
campaigns. Look for our score on equal treatment of various segments
of the population to decline further under ACT/National . . .
We have seen National exploit financers, propagandists, party support,
legal theories to legitimize, and perhaps we have shock troops still
to come . . .
On 2023-10-27, Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving OurOnce again we need to realise that the author has got the GOP and the >Democrats reversed. It is the Democrats who are trying to screw things up.
Democracy to Autocracy by Stuart Stevens EPUB
?This is the first must-read of the 2024 election cycle if you want to
understand the stakes.? ?Nicolle Wallace
Former chief Republican strategist, Lincoln Project adviser, and
bestselling author of It Was All a Lie, Stuart Stevens offers an
ominous warning that the GOP is dragging our country toward
autocracy?and if we don?t wake up to the crisis in our system, 2024
may well be our last free and fair election.
Today?s Republican party is not a ?normal? political party in the
American tradition. It has become an autocratic movement masquerading
as a political party. As Stuart Stevens argues in THE CONSPIRACY TO
END AMERICA, if we look away from that truth, we greatly increase the
likelihood that the America we love will slip away, never to return.
Whenever a democracy slides into autocracy, there are five critical
elements at work: financers, propagandists, party support, legal
theories to legitimize, and shock troops. THE CONSPIRACY TO END
AMERICA examines each of these driving forces on the Right and makes
clear how they are working in concert to end our democracy as we know
it. In the tradition of It Can?t Happen Here and On Tyranny, THE
CONSPIRACY TO END AMERICA is a blinking red distress call about the
dark intentions lurking within Stevens? old party and a rallying cry
to beat back this perilous threat and save the Republic.
____________________________________________
There are parallels with all the Five Eyes Countries, as well as
others. The Republican Party has been regarded as an exemplar of right
and far right legitimacy, but even while the Republican Party in the
USA has been captured by crazies, it is still copied and followed to
an extent by Conservative parties in other countries.
It is interesting to look for measures of autocracy - one measure is
given here:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-polity?tab=chart&country=AUS~NZL~CAN~GBR~USA
where it is perceived that both the UK and USA have dropped recently
in terms of how democratic they are,
and here:
https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores?sort=asc&order=Country
which shows scores for "Freedom" of
Australia 95
Canada 98
New Zealand 99
United Kingdom 93
United States 83
and from here:
https://freedomhouse.org/country/new-zealand/freedom-world/2023
we see that New Zealand misses on a perfect score through:
"Concerns include discrimination against the Maori and other minority
populations, as well as reports of foreign influence in politics and
the education sector."
Our most autocratic party is clearly ACT, followed by NZ First,
National, Labour and The Greens (leaving aside the smaller parties)
it is not surprising then to find that The Taxpayer Union (a funding
front for both ACT and National) assisted and promoted "Freedumb"
protests as part of it's disinformation attacks on Labour; wrongly
claiming libertarian principles and "freedom of expression'' as an
excuse, merely as a way to attack the government. Essentially both
those parties embraced the dishonesty of the Trump Republican
campaigns. Look for our score on equal treatment of various segments
of the population to decline further under ACT/National . . .
We have seen National exploit financers, propagandists, party support,
legal theories to legitimize, and perhaps we have shock troops still
to come . . .
And now can we take this to alt.politics.trump.
On 27 Oct 2023 22:26:39 GMT, Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote:A comppletely bogus assessment.
On 2023-10-27, Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving OurOnce again we need to realise that the author has got the GOP and the >>Democrats reversed. It is the Democrats who are trying to screw things up.
Democracy to Autocracy by Stuart Stevens EPUB
?This is the first must-read of the 2024 election cycle if you want to
understand the stakes.? ?Nicolle Wallace
Former chief Republican strategist, Lincoln Project adviser, and
bestselling author of It Was All a Lie, Stuart Stevens offers an
ominous warning that the GOP is dragging our country toward
autocracy?and if we don?t wake up to the crisis in our system, 2024
may well be our last free and fair election.
Today?s Republican party is not a ?normal? political party in the
American tradition. It has become an autocratic movement masquerading
as a political party. As Stuart Stevens argues in THE CONSPIRACY TO
END AMERICA, if we look away from that truth, we greatly increase the
likelihood that the America we love will slip away, never to return.
Whenever a democracy slides into autocracy, there are five critical
elements at work: financers, propagandists, party support, legal
theories to legitimize, and shock troops. THE CONSPIRACY TO END
AMERICA examines each of these driving forces on the Right and makes
clear how they are working in concert to end our democracy as we know
it. In the tradition of It Can?t Happen Here and On Tyranny, THE
CONSPIRACY TO END AMERICA is a blinking red distress call about the
dark intentions lurking within Stevens? old party and a rallying cry
to beat back this perilous threat and save the Republic.
____________________________________________
There are parallels with all the Five Eyes Countries, as well as
others. The Republican Party has been regarded as an exemplar of right
and far right legitimacy, but even while the Republican Party in the
USA has been captured by crazies, it is still copied and followed to
an extent by Conservative parties in other countries.
It is interesting to look for measures of autocracy - one measure is
given here:
where it is perceived that both the UK and USA have dropped recentlyhttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-polity?tab=chart&country=AUS~NZL~CAN~GBR~USA
in terms of how democratic they are,
and here:
https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores?sort=asc&order=Country
which shows scores for "Freedom" of
Australia 95
Canada 98
New Zealand 99
United Kingdom 93
United States 83
and from here:
https://freedomhouse.org/country/new-zealand/freedom-world/2023
we see that New Zealand misses on a perfect score through:
"Concerns include discrimination against the Maori and other minority
populations, as well as reports of foreign influence in politics and
the education sector."
Our most autocratic party is clearly ACT, followed by NZ First,
National, Labour and The Greens (leaving aside the smaller parties)
it is not surprising then to find that The Taxpayer Union (a funding
front for both ACT and National) assisted and promoted "Freedumb"
protests as part of it's disinformation attacks on Labour; wrongly
claiming libertarian principles and "freedom of expression'' as an
excuse, merely as a way to attack the government. Essentially both
those parties embraced the dishonesty of the Trump Republican
campaigns. Look for our score on equal treatment of various segments
of the population to decline further under ACT/National . . .
We have seen National exploit financers, propagandists, party support,
legal theories to legitimize, and perhaps we have shock troops still
to come . . .
And now can we take this to alt.politics.trump.
In a different thread I posted two urls: >https://www.politicalcompass.org/nz2023
which shows an assessment that Labour is on their chart +6 to the
Right of Centre, and +4 Authoritarian, compared to NZ where National
are at +8.5 Right and +6 Authoritarian, and NZ First +7.5 Right, +7.5 >authoritarian , and ACT +10 Right and -2 Libertarian
and for the USA
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020
which gives an assessment for the 2020 Presidential election using the
same methodology and measurement basis, at that time they assessed
Biden at +7.5 to the right of centre, and + 6.5 Authoritarian, with
Trump at +8.5 / +8.5
in my view Biden would be unelectable as an MP in New Zealand, let
alone as leader of a major party - it is an indication of how broken
their limited democracy is that there still appears to be a chance he
will be a candidate in 2024! The Republicans are hardly an example of
a coherent political party either however - the support for trump is
still strong, and they have shown poor political ability with their
problems over a leader for the Senate which they control.
Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:I can understand why you may not agree with the assessment, but why
On 27 Oct 2023 22:26:39 GMT, Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote:A comppletely bogus assessment.
On 2023-10-27, Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving OurOnce again we need to realise that the author has got the GOP and the >>>Democrats reversed. It is the Democrats who are trying to screw things up. >>>
Democracy to Autocracy by Stuart Stevens EPUB
?This is the first must-read of the 2024 election cycle if you want to >>>> understand the stakes.? ?Nicolle Wallace
Former chief Republican strategist, Lincoln Project adviser, and
bestselling author of It Was All a Lie, Stuart Stevens offers an
ominous warning that the GOP is dragging our country toward
autocracy?and if we don?t wake up to the crisis in our system, 2024
may well be our last free and fair election.
Today?s Republican party is not a ?normal? political party in the
American tradition. It has become an autocratic movement masquerading
as a political party. As Stuart Stevens argues in THE CONSPIRACY TO
END AMERICA, if we look away from that truth, we greatly increase the
likelihood that the America we love will slip away, never to return.
Whenever a democracy slides into autocracy, there are five critical
elements at work: financers, propagandists, party support, legal
theories to legitimize, and shock troops. THE CONSPIRACY TO END
AMERICA examines each of these driving forces on the Right and makes
clear how they are working in concert to end our democracy as we know
it. In the tradition of It Can?t Happen Here and On Tyranny, THE
CONSPIRACY TO END AMERICA is a blinking red distress call about the
dark intentions lurking within Stevens? old party and a rallying cry
to beat back this perilous threat and save the Republic.
____________________________________________
There are parallels with all the Five Eyes Countries, as well as
others. The Republican Party has been regarded as an exemplar of right >>>> and far right legitimacy, but even while the Republican Party in the
USA has been captured by crazies, it is still copied and followed to
an extent by Conservative parties in other countries.
It is interesting to look for measures of autocracy - one measure is
given here:
where it is perceived that both the UK and USA have dropped recentlyhttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-polity?tab=chart&country=AUS~NZL~CAN~GBR~USA
in terms of how democratic they are,
and here:
https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores?sort=asc&order=Country
which shows scores for "Freedom" of
Australia 95
Canada 98
New Zealand 99
United Kingdom 93
United States 83
and from here:
https://freedomhouse.org/country/new-zealand/freedom-world/2023
we see that New Zealand misses on a perfect score through:
"Concerns include discrimination against the Maori and other minority
populations, as well as reports of foreign influence in politics and
the education sector."
Our most autocratic party is clearly ACT, followed by NZ First,
National, Labour and The Greens (leaving aside the smaller parties)
it is not surprising then to find that The Taxpayer Union (a funding
front for both ACT and National) assisted and promoted "Freedumb"
protests as part of it's disinformation attacks on Labour; wrongly
claiming libertarian principles and "freedom of expression'' as an
excuse, merely as a way to attack the government. Essentially both
those parties embraced the dishonesty of the Trump Republican
campaigns. Look for our score on equal treatment of various segments
of the population to decline further under ACT/National . . .
We have seen National exploit financers, propagandists, party support, >>>> legal theories to legitimize, and perhaps we have shock troops still
to come . . .
And now can we take this to alt.politics.trump.
In a different thread I posted two urls: >>https://www.politicalcompass.org/nz2023
which shows an assessment that Labour is on their chart +6 to the
Right of Centre, and +4 Authoritarian, compared to NZ where National
are at +8.5 Right and +6 Authoritarian, and NZ First +7.5 Right, +7.5 >>authoritarian , and ACT +10 Right and -2 Libertarian
and for the USA
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020
which gives an assessment for the 2020 Presidential election using the
same methodology and measurement basis, at that time they assessed
Biden at +7.5 to the right of centre, and + 6.5 Authoritarian, with
Trump at +8.5 / +8.5
in my view Biden would be unelectable as an MP in New Zealand, let
alone as leader of a major party - it is an indication of how broken
their limited democracy is that there still appears to be a chance he
will be a candidate in 2024! The Republicans are hardly an example of
a coherent political party either however - the support for trump is
still strong, and they have shown poor political ability with their >>problems over a leader for the Senate which they control.
On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 03:34:51 -0000 (UTC), TonyYou have had that explained to you several times. You deliberately ignore such truths.
<lizandtony@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:I can understand why you may not agree with the assessment, but why
On 27 Oct 2023 22:26:39 GMT, Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote:A comppletely bogus assessment.
On 2023-10-27, Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our >>>>> Democracy to Autocracy by Stuart Stevens EPUBOnce again we need to realise that the author has got the GOP and the >>>>Democrats reversed. It is the Democrats who are trying to screw things up. >>>>
?This is the first must-read of the 2024 election cycle if you want to >>>>> understand the stakes.? ?Nicolle Wallace
Former chief Republican strategist, Lincoln Project adviser, and
bestselling author of It Was All a Lie, Stuart Stevens offers an
ominous warning that the GOP is dragging our country toward
autocracy?and if we don?t wake up to the crisis in our system, 2024
may well be our last free and fair election.
Today?s Republican party is not a ?normal? political party in the
American tradition. It has become an autocratic movement masquerading >>>>> as a political party. As Stuart Stevens argues in THE CONSPIRACY TO
END AMERICA, if we look away from that truth, we greatly increase the >>>>> likelihood that the America we love will slip away, never to return. >>>>>
Whenever a democracy slides into autocracy, there are five critical
elements at work: financers, propagandists, party support, legal
theories to legitimize, and shock troops. THE CONSPIRACY TO END
AMERICA examines each of these driving forces on the Right and makes >>>>> clear how they are working in concert to end our democracy as we know >>>>> it. In the tradition of It Can?t Happen Here and On Tyranny, THE
CONSPIRACY TO END AMERICA is a blinking red distress call about the
dark intentions lurking within Stevens? old party and a rallying cry >>>>> to beat back this perilous threat and save the Republic.
____________________________________________
There are parallels with all the Five Eyes Countries, as well as
others. The Republican Party has been regarded as an exemplar of right >>>>> and far right legitimacy, but even while the Republican Party in the >>>>> USA has been captured by crazies, it is still copied and followed to >>>>> an extent by Conservative parties in other countries.
It is interesting to look for measures of autocracy - one measure is >>>>> given here:
where it is perceived that both the UK and USA have dropped recently >>>>> in terms of how democratic they are,https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-polity?tab=chart&country=AUS~NZL~CAN~GBR~USA
and here:
https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores?sort=asc&order=Country
which shows scores for "Freedom" of
Australia 95
Canada 98
New Zealand 99
United Kingdom 93
United States 83
and from here:
https://freedomhouse.org/country/new-zealand/freedom-world/2023
we see that New Zealand misses on a perfect score through:
"Concerns include discrimination against the Maori and other minority >>>>> populations, as well as reports of foreign influence in politics and >>>>> the education sector."
Our most autocratic party is clearly ACT, followed by NZ First,
National, Labour and The Greens (leaving aside the smaller parties)
it is not surprising then to find that The Taxpayer Union (a funding >>>>> front for both ACT and National) assisted and promoted "Freedumb"
protests as part of it's disinformation attacks on Labour; wrongly
claiming libertarian principles and "freedom of expression'' as an
excuse, merely as a way to attack the government. Essentially both
those parties embraced the dishonesty of the Trump Republican
campaigns. Look for our score on equal treatment of various segments >>>>> of the population to decline further under ACT/National . . .
We have seen National exploit financers, propagandists, party support, >>>>> legal theories to legitimize, and perhaps we have shock troops still >>>>> to come . . .
And now can we take this to alt.politics.trump.
In a different thread I posted two urls: >>>https://www.politicalcompass.org/nz2023
which shows an assessment that Labour is on their chart +6 to the
Right of Centre, and +4 Authoritarian, compared to NZ where National
are at +8.5 Right and +6 Authoritarian, and NZ First +7.5 Right, +7.5 >>>authoritarian , and ACT +10 Right and -2 Libertarian
refer to it as bogus? I see nothing to indicate that it is not an
honest assessment, made on a consistent methodology with other
assessments on that site.
and for the USA
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020
which gives an assessment for the 2020 Presidential election using the >>>same methodology and measurement basis, at that time they assessed
Biden at +7.5 to the right of centre, and + 6.5 Authoritarian, with >>>Trump at +8.5 / +8.5
in my view Biden would be unelectable as an MP in New Zealand, let
alone as leader of a major party - it is an indication of how broken >>>their limited democracy is that there still appears to be a chance he >>>will be a candidate in 2024! The Republicans are hardly an example of
a coherent political party either however - the support for trump is >>>still strong, and they have shown poor political ability with their >>>problems over a leader for the Senate which they control.
On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 03:34:51 -0000 (UTC), Tony
<lizan...@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> wrote:I can understand why you may not agree with the assessment, but why
On 27 Oct 2023 22:26:39 GMT, Gordon <Gor...@leaf.net.nz> wrote:A comppletely bogus assessment.
On 2023-10-27, Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> wrote:
The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our >>>> Democracy to Autocracy by Stuart Stevens EPUBOnce again we need to realise that the author has got the GOP and the >>>Democrats reversed. It is the Democrats who are trying to screw things up.
?This is the first must-read of the 2024 election cycle if you want to >>>> understand the stakes.? ?Nicolle Wallace
Former chief Republican strategist, Lincoln Project adviser, and
bestselling author of It Was All a Lie, Stuart Stevens offers an
ominous warning that the GOP is dragging our country toward
autocracy?and if we don?t wake up to the crisis in our system, 2024 >>>> may well be our last free and fair election.
Today?s Republican party is not a ?normal? political party in the
American tradition. It has become an autocratic movement masquerading >>>> as a political party. As Stuart Stevens argues in THE CONSPIRACY TO >>>> END AMERICA, if we look away from that truth, we greatly increase the >>>> likelihood that the America we love will slip away, never to return. >>>>
Whenever a democracy slides into autocracy, there are five critical >>>> elements at work: financers, propagandists, party support, legal
theories to legitimize, and shock troops. THE CONSPIRACY TO END
AMERICA examines each of these driving forces on the Right and makes >>>> clear how they are working in concert to end our democracy as we know >>>> it. In the tradition of It Can?t Happen Here and On Tyranny, THE
CONSPIRACY TO END AMERICA is a blinking red distress call about the >>>> dark intentions lurking within Stevens? old party and a rallying cry >>>> to beat back this perilous threat and save the Republic.
____________________________________________
There are parallels with all the Five Eyes Countries, as well as
others. The Republican Party has been regarded as an exemplar of right >>>> and far right legitimacy, but even while the Republican Party in the >>>> USA has been captured by crazies, it is still copied and followed to >>>> an extent by Conservative parties in other countries.
It is interesting to look for measures of autocracy - one measure is >>>> given here:
where it is perceived that both the UK and USA have dropped recently >>>> in terms of how democratic they are,https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-polity?tab=chart&country=AUS~NZL~CAN~GBR~USA
and here:
https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores?sort=asc&order=Country
which shows scores for "Freedom" of
Australia 95
Canada 98
New Zealand 99
United Kingdom 93
United States 83
and from here:
https://freedomhouse.org/country/new-zealand/freedom-world/2023
we see that New Zealand misses on a perfect score through:
"Concerns include discrimination against the Maori and other minority >>>> populations, as well as reports of foreign influence in politics and >>>> the education sector."
Our most autocratic party is clearly ACT, followed by NZ First,
National, Labour and The Greens (leaving aside the smaller parties) >>>>
it is not surprising then to find that The Taxpayer Union (a funding >>>> front for both ACT and National) assisted and promoted "Freedumb"
protests as part of it's disinformation attacks on Labour; wrongly
claiming libertarian principles and "freedom of expression'' as an
excuse, merely as a way to attack the government. Essentially both
those parties embraced the dishonesty of the Trump Republican
campaigns. Look for our score on equal treatment of various segments >>>> of the population to decline further under ACT/National . . .
We have seen National exploit financers, propagandists, party support, >>>> legal theories to legitimize, and perhaps we have shock troops still >>>> to come . . .
And now can we take this to alt.politics.trump.
In a different thread I posted two urls: >>https://www.politicalcompass.org/nz2023
which shows an assessment that Labour is on their chart +6 to the
Right of Centre, and +4 Authoritarian, compared to NZ where National
are at +8.5 Right and +6 Authoritarian, and NZ First +7.5 Right, +7.5 >>authoritarian , and ACT +10 Right and -2 Libertarian
refer to it as bogus? I see nothing to indicate that it is not an
honest assessment, made on a consistent methodology with other
assessments on that site.
You do get nasty when you find your opinions are not shared, don't you
Tony? . . .
and for the USA
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020
which gives an assessment for the 2020 Presidential election using the >>same methodology and measurement basis, at that time they assessed
Biden at +7.5 to the right of centre, and + 6.5 Authoritarian, with >>Trump at +8.5 / +8.5
in my view Biden would be unelectable as an MP in New Zealand, let
alone as leader of a major party - it is an indication of how broken >>their limited democracy is that there still appears to be a chance he >>will be a candidate in 2024! The Republicans are hardly an example of
a coherent political party either however - the support for trump is >>still strong, and they have shown poor political ability with their >>problems over a leader for the Senate which they control.
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