"Arguably the root problem with the GOP, then, isn't extreme partisanship or a lazy dependence on lobbyists or a taste for fact-free demagoguery. It is the belief that a virtual civil war is necessary to impose Red America's will on Blue America, now and forever. Donald Trump, with his contempt for democratic norms and his authoritarian narcissism, knows about as much as he needs to for the task of banana republic rule."
Ed Kilgore at the Washington Monthly reviews Steve Benen's The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.
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