A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower… — 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
