NATIONAL BESTSELLER now in paperback, updated with a new afterword
"This is the definitive account of what has gone wrong in our
two-party system, and how our democracy has to adapt to survive it.
I can't say it in strong enough terms: Read. This. Book." -RACHEL
MADDOW The award-winning producer of The Rachel Maddow Show exposes
the Republican Party as a gang of impostors, meticulously
documenting how they have abandoned their duty to govern and are
gravely endangering America For decades, American voters innocently
assumed the two major political parties were equally mature and
responsible governing entities, ideological differences aside. That
belief is due for an overhaul: in recent years, the Republican
Party has undergone an astonishing metamorphosis, one so baffling
and complete that few have fully reckoned with the reality and its
consequences. Republicans, simply put, have quit governing. As
MSNBC's Steve Benen charts in his groundbreaking new book, the
contemporary GOP has become a "post-policy party." Republicans are
effectively impostors, presenting themselves as officials who are
ready to take seriously the substance of problem solving, but whose
sole focus is the pursuit and maintenance of power. Astonishingly,
they are winning-at the cost of pushing the political system to the
breaking point. Despite having billed itself as the "party of
ideas," the Republican Party has walked away from the hard but
necessary work of policymaking. It is disdainful of expertise and
hostile toward evidence and arithmetic. It is tethered to few, if
any, meaningful policy preferences. It does not know, and does not
care, about how competing proposals should be crafted, scrutinized,
or implemented. This policy nihilism dominated the party's posture
throughout Barack Obama's presidency, which in turn opened the door
to Donald Trump -- who would cement the GOP's post-policy status in
ways that were difficult to even imagine a few years earlier. The
implications of this approach to governance are all-encompassing.
Voters routinely elect Republicans such as Mitch McConnell and Ted
Cruz to powerful offices, expecting GOP policymakers to have the
technocratic wherewithal to identify problems, weigh alternative
solutions, forge coalitions, accept compromises, and apply some
level of governmental competence, if not expertise. The party has
consistently proven those hopes misguided. The result is an
untenable political model that's undermining the American
policymaking process and failing to serve the public's interests.
The vital challenge facing the civil polity is coming to terms with
the party's collapse as a governing entity and considering what the
party can do to find its policymaking footing anew. The Impostors
serves as a devastating indictment of the GOP's breakdown,
identifying the culprits, the crisis, and its effects, while
challenging Republicans with an imperative question: Are they ready
to change direction? As Benen writes, "A great deal is riding on
their answer."
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