Inside the Hive

“I Really Think He Is Against America”: Is Trump a Traitor?

Former Republican strategist Stuart Stevens offers a searing rebuke of the president, and blames the GOP for dropping the ball.
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On this week’s Inside the Hive, Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan assess the state of the presidential race at the end of the long, hot 2020 summer and find themselves torn between glimmers of hope for Joe Biden in the polls and the ongoing apocalyptic tidings of Trumpism. In a feature interview, Hagan talks to longtime Republican strategist Stuart Stevens, whose best-selling book It Was All a Lie is a confession, a mea culpa, and a searing analysis of the racism and xenophobia that has swallowed the GOP with the rise of Donald Trump, who he deems a “traitor” to his country. “I really think he is against America, what it means to be an American,” he says, blaming the Republican Party for “a complete collapse of responsibility that they had to defend democracy in America. And they failed.” Stevens also offers advice on how to talk to your Trump-loving relatives about their vote in November. 

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