Mike lofgren is an american former republican aide, who retired in may 2011 after 28 years as a staff member in the u. Greg speck talks wisely about how to keep a relationship with jesus alive after the emotion and good feelings of peak religious experience fades. Religion destroyed my party at salon, 8512 some liberal writers have opined that the socioeconomic gulf separating the business wing of the gop and the religious right make it an unstable coalition that could crack. When he came to washington in the early 1980s, the party was controlled by what was mostly a rational group of.
The republican party is no longer a broadbased conservative party. The more that gop candidates embrace antiknowledge the more popular they become, as mike lofgren explains. Read the party is over online, read in mobile or kindle. In the party is over mike lofgren presents a very similar message to joseph stiglitzs the price of inequality and thomas mann and norman ornsteins its even worse than it looks. Mike lofgren is the new york times bestselling author of the party is over. The party is over mike lofgren pdf the party is over tp high res this book is about americas broken political system. Lofgren astutely points out that defense spending is the personification of inefficient spending, and it creates no jobs. By mike lofgren in the realm of physics, the opposite of matter is not nothingness. Mike lofgren came to washington in the early eightiesthose halcyon, postnixonian glory daysfor what he imagined would be. The fall of the constitution and the rise of a shadow government by mike lofgren. Listen to the party is over how republicans went crazy, democrats became useless, and the middle class got s hafted audiobook. Bespectacled and characteristically deadpanned, author mike lofgren could almost pass for the daily shows john hodgman, though unfortunately lofgren s often comedic take on the grim political r. The new york times bestselling expose of what passes for business as usual in washington today there was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the republican party.
The difference is that lofgren s perspective is from working as a republican analyst on house and senate budget committees for 28 years. Fear not, the dems come in for their share of tough talk they are zombies, a party of the living dead. He has appeared on bill moyers, hardball, chris hayes, and to the point, among others, and lives in alexandria, virginia. Industry is the only true source of wealth, and there was no industry in rome. Find all the books, read about the author, and more.
In the new book, the party is over, veteran republican mike lofgren writes about the rise of politicized religious fundamentalism and how the gop devolved into antiintellectual nuts. Anatomy of the deep state february 21, 2014 by mike lofgren rome lived upon its principal till ruin stared it in the face. Download the party is over ebook free in pdf and epub format. How republicans went crazy, democrats became useless, and the middle class got s hafted. He spent twentyeight years working in congress, the last sixteen as a senior analyst on the house and senate budget committees. Lofgren worked on capitol hill while i worked in the pentagon, and over the years, beginning in the late 1980s, we discussed and tried to understand the many hidden connections that had. It was a think tank gabfest at which the participants were disillusioned conservatives hoping to chart a course toward a saner political centerright. His argument this time is that for all of the backstabbing and money grubbing of the campaign season, the politicians we elect have as little.
Jonathan chait did a nearecstatic writeup of the meeting and its promise. How republicans went crazy, democrats became useless and the middle class got shafted, in gop insider. He spent twentyeight years in congress, the last sixteen as a senior analyst on the house and senate budget committees. Mike lofgren is an american author and a former republican u. The republican party is no longer a broadbased conservative party in the historically accepted sense. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. In the book, the party is over, veteran republican mike lofgren writes about the rise of politicized religious fundamentalism and how the gop devolved into antiintellectual nuts. As chicken hawks play to the crowd and their fears of illegal aliens, drug wars and terrorists, talkshow personalities stir up the more radical elements until rational thought can no.
Click download or read online button to the party s over book pdf for free now. The new york timesbestselling manifesto about americas broken political system and how it got that way mike lofgren was once a proud republican. Mike lofgren came to washington in the early eightiesthose. The party is over by mike lofgren free pdf ebooks downloads. Mike lofgren spent twentyeight years working in congress, the last sixteen as a senior analyst on the house and senate budget committees, which gave him an insiders look at the bush tax cuts, the troubled asset relief program, hurricane katrina disaster relief, the war on terrorism, debates on the pentagon budget, and the various deficitreduction commissions. Mike lofgren offers an insiders view of washington politics.
Republican insider explains how religion destroyed the gop. It is an oligarchy with a welldeveloped public relations strategy designed to soothe and anesthetize its followers with appeals to tradition, security, and family even as it pursues a radical agenda that would transform the country into a. How republicans went crazy, democrats became useless, and the middle class got shafted 2012 in pdf,epub. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the the party is over, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. How republicans went crazy, democrats became useless, and the middle class got shafted. His writings, critical of politics in the united states, particularly the republican party, were published after his retirement and garnered widespread attention. As chicken hawks play to the crowd and their fears of illegal aliens, drug wars and terrorists, talkshow personalities stir up the more radical elements until rational thought can no longer be found. Having read mike lofgren s book i really do understand the populist appeal of both candidates. By day the ostia road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying to the great city the silks. With the feel of a longrepressed confession and the authority of an insiders testimony, like the antiwar views of a decorated infantry officer. How republicans went crazy, democrats became useless, and the middle class got shafted paperback august 27, 20. Pdf the party s over download full pdf book download.
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