"We Seem to Have Settled into a Very Comfortable White Grievance Identity"

"Well, I think there's been two strains in the party. Call it an Eisenhower strain going back to the '50s and a McCarthy strain.
"We look—we think now of William Buckley as this intellectual soul of the Republican Party to a certain point, but—which he was, but we forget that he began as a racist. So there's always been this element.
"Since 1964, the Republican Party has failed to attract large numbers of African Americans. We used to acknowledge this as a failure and talk about how to try to change it.
"Now we don't even hear any talk anymore of a big tent."

Judy Woodruff at the PBS Newshour interviews Stuart Stevens, author of It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump.

Nancy LeTourneau discusses the book at the Washington Monthly.

And Michael Grunwald interviews Stevens at Politico.