Politics Quote by Mike Lofgren

“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

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 that eclipsed…

— Mike Lofgren

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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. This is…

— Mike Lofgren

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

— Mike Lofgren