TY - BOOK AU - Stevens,Stuart TI - The conspiracy to end America: five ways my old party is driving our democracy to autocracy SN - 9781538765401 (hardcover) AV - JK 1976 S846c 2023 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - 12 Twelve KW - Trump, Donald, KW - Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) KW - Partido Republicano (Estados Unidos: 1854-) KW - Elections KW - United States, 2020 KW - Elecciones KW - Estados Unidos KW - 2020 KW - Dictatorship KW - United States KW - Dictadura N1 - Introduction: The conspiracy to end America Chapter 1: The propagandists Chapter 2: The support of the party Chapter 3: The financers Chapter 4: The legal theories Chapter 5: The shock troops Afterword: Driving toward autocracy Acknowledgments N2 - Today's Republican party has become an autocratic movement masquerading as a political party. If we turn our backs on 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: financiers, propagandists, support of a major party, legal theories to legitimize authoritarian acts, and shock troops. The book 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 ER -