A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
The GOP’s thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
“The religious right provides the foot soldiers for the GOP. This fact has profound implications for the rest of the Republicans’ ideological agenda.” — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways. — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
“Voters in the Republican primary in South Carolina who handed Trump a walkover victory declared terrorism to be their foremost concern, one that eclipsed… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
“The Deep State is the big story of our time. It is the red thread that runs through the war on terrorism and the… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
“The United States forgot— if it ever knew— the supreme virtue of an enlightened realpolitik, which is to keep one’s powder dry, intervene militarily… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
“The Republican Party has used objection, obstruction, and filibustering not only to block the necessary processes of government but also in order to make… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
“Let’s face it: The Republican Party is no longer a broad-based conservative party in the historically accepted sense. It is an oligarchy with a… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult,… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
“This is the new Republican victimology: The liberal media is maliciously misrepresenting the views of a rough-hewn but sincere salt-of-the-earth conservative, even when his… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
“The GOP cares, over and above every other item on its political agenda, about the rich contributors who keep them in office. This is… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
