Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Was 2024 America’s last free and fair election? That question comes from Stuart Stevens, a former Republican strategist whose clients included President George W. Bush, Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Lugar and many others. He says the GOP is dragging our country toward autocracy, and the party is no longer a “normal” political party in the American tradition. Rather, he says it is an autocratic movement masquerading as a political party. Stevens sits down with Democratic political strategist Robert Shrum to discuss Stevens’s new book, The Conspiracy to End America, and answer the questions: are these the last days of the old republic or can there be a renewed commitment to democratic governance?
Was 2024 America’s last free and fair election? That question comes from Stuart Stevens, a former Republican strategist whose clients included President George W. Bush, Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Lugar and many others. He says the GOP is dragging our country toward autocracy, and the party is no longer a “normal” political party in the American tradition. Rather, he says it is an autocratic movement masquerading as a political party. Stevens sits down with Democratic political strategist Robert Shrum to discuss Stevens’s new book, The Conspiracy to End America, and answer the questions: are these the last days of the old republic or can there be a renewed commitment to democratic governance?
