{"id":29860,"date":"2023-11-13T12:22:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T20:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=29860"},"modified":"2023-11-13T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T20:50:23","slug":"stuart-stevens-the-conspiracy-to-end-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/13\/stuart-stevens-the-conspiracy-to-end-america\/","title":{"rendered":"STUART STEVENS: THE CONSPIRACY TO END AMERICA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stuart Stevens: The Conspiracy to End America\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jjrhMZCPBt0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@commonwealthclub\">The Common<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 Nov 3, 2023 Will 2024 be America\u2019s last free and fair election? That ominous warning comes from Stuart Stevens, a former chief Republican strategist whose clients included President George W. Bush; Senators Chuck Grassley, Dick Lugar and Dan Coats; and Governors Haley Barbour, John Kyl, Bill Weld and many others. He says the GOP is dragging our country toward autocracy, and the party is no longer a \u201cnormal\u201d political party in the American tradition. Rather, he says it is an autocratic movement masquerading as a political party. As the Republican party changed, Stevens exited his role in one of the country\u2019s most influential political strategy firms and joined the Lincoln Project, where he is currently an advisor. Stevens wrote about his fear for the country in his provocative new book, The Conspiracy to End America. In it, he reviews the elements that are necessary for democracies to slide into autocracy, and he examines each of these forces on the modern American right and how they are working together. Are these the last days of the old republic? Or can there be a renewed commitment to democratic governance? Don\u2019t miss this talk as Stevens flashes a blinking red distress alert as well as a rallying cry to beat back this threat. Photo courtesy the speaker. October 26, 2023 SPEAKERS Stuart Stevens Senior Advisor, The Lincoln Project; Author, The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy; Twitter @stuartpstevens In Conversation with Brian Watt News Anchor, KQED; Twitter@RadioBWatt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Contributed by Hanz Bolen, H.W., M.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Common\u00a0\u2022 Nov 3, 2023 Will 2024 be America\u2019s last free and fair election? That ominous warning comes from Stuart Stevens, a former chief Republican strategist whose clients included President George W. Bush; Senators Chuck Grassley, Dick Lugar and Dan Coats; and Governors Haley Barbour, John Kyl, Bill Weld and&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/13\/stuart-stevens-the-conspiracy-to-end-america\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29863,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29860\/revisions\/29863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}