Mike Lofgren

“The religious right provides the foot soldiers for the GOP. This fact has profound implications for the rest of the Republicans’ ideological…

— Mike Lofgren

The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

— Mike Lofgren

“Voters in the Republican primary in South Carolina who handed Trump a walkover victory declared terrorism to be their foremost concern, one…

— Mike Lofgren

“The Deep State is the big story of our time. It is the red thread that runs through the war on terrorism…

— Mike Lofgren

“The United States forgot— if it ever knew— the supreme virtue of an enlightened realpolitik, which is to keep one’s powder dry,…

— Mike Lofgren

“The Republican Party has used objection, obstruction, and filibustering not only to block the necessary processes of government but also in order…

— Mike Lofgren

A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this…

— Mike Lofgren

“Let’s face it: The Republican Party is no longer a broad-based conservative party in the historically accepted sense. It is an oligarchy…

— Mike Lofgren

The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an…

— Mike Lofgren

“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…

— Mike Lofgren

We must let our hopes be greater than our fears.

— Mike Lofgren

“The GOP cares, over and above every other item on its political agenda, about the rich contributors who keep them in office.…

— Mike Lofgren

“Government officials and the corporate media whipped up a mood in the country that approached hysteria; Trump deftly exploited that mood to…

— Mike Lofgren

“Although you won’t find it in their party platform, the GOP’s mission is to protect and further enrich America’s plutocracy. The party’s…

— Mike Lofgren

“One might think that the exposure of unsanitary conditions and animal cruelty in the corporate farming and food-processing industries would provoke lawmakers…

— Mike Lofgren

“Like biblical literalists, Republicans assert that the Constitution is divinely inspired and inerrant. But also like biblical literalists, they are strangely selective…

— Mike Lofgren

The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight,

— Mike Lofgren

“Between 1994 and 2008, an individual health-care mandate was a standard GOP nostrum, promoted not only by Mitt Romney, but by Newt…

— Mike Lofgren

“Liberals habitually work themselves into a lather about the antics of Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, but they are really just political…

— Mike Lofgren

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