The Impostors - Steve Benen
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Donald Trump
Ineffective
Republicans
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389 Pages
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 Mike Pence 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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This post has 35 comments with rating of 5/5
June 18th, 2020
!!
June 18th, 2020
MSNBC…Say no more..
June 18th, 2020
@edbroadway — please correct the title “Impostors”, not “Imposters”.
June 18th, 2020
@Gweilo Thank you!!! Spell-check feels very at liberty to substitute non-misspelled words,with wholly other words. I see what happened it seperated Im and posters into 2 different words, because I copy and pasted most of the info to speed up the process. Thanks Again!
June 18th, 2020
Republicans the scum of the earth, Democrats. Bluefaced republicans both parties suck. Interesting book.
June 18th, 2020
Correction, Mavericks (except McConnell an Paul Ryan)
June 18th, 2020
“The People Get The Government They Deserve”.
June 18th, 2020
@RedShadow agreed. Shadow you are going to enjoy it. An A-team was definitely put together to take care of research, and Steve Benen obviously, gifted as an analyst and explicator ; always either wins an Emmy in diff categories or gets at least a nomination every year etc.
June 19th, 2020
mmmmm … more pablum for the plantation dwellers.
June 19th, 2020
@edbroadway: thanks. Also, please join the forum, a more reliable way to communicate and discuss.
June 19th, 2020
Sorry, folks, bought this one and anyone b*tching about it is wrong. It’s a good book. And the author had enough sense not to narrate it himself…nothing more egotistical than an author narrating his own work.
Oh..also, suck it, haters.
June 19th, 2020
Suck what? Where? What’s goin’ on?
Thanks again, ed, but I’d struggle to listen to anything by that Steve Bannon guy. Sloppy prose, sloppy grammar, you know the routine.
June 19th, 2020
“LJG
Oh..also, suck it, haters.”
LOL LOL LOL LOL
June 19th, 2020
@Gweilo How do I join, and how do I put an Image on my avi? @caesar963 LOL! no no no This is NOT THAT Bannon, That sloppy, walking mess of Oscar the Grouch. This The Producer/Creator of The Rachel MaddowShow and MaddowShow Podcast.
June 19th, 2020
Hoist by my own petard again - I got sloppy.
June 19th, 2020
@caesar963 LMFAO Never!, It happens several people have made the same mix-up and were about to be miss out on a very good read.
June 19th, 2020
@edbroadway Click on the “Forum” button at the top.
https://audiobookbay.lu/forum/regcenter/?sa=register
Preferably use the same login name, though this is not enforced
The avatars here are via https://en.gravatar.com/
June 19th, 2020
PS. Am reading this book now. Very depressing. Trump is not an aberration, he is the culmination of the GOP’s focus on empty messaging and posturing, bald faced lies instead of policy.
June 19th, 2020
I reckon Trump is a distinct aberration at the species level. He may even, in another context, constitute a subspace anomaly - an irregular disruption altering physics and the human brain.
June 19th, 2020
Joke book for 9-year-olds…or those who act as such. Would you rather have Hillary in office? CHAZ or CHOP (or whatever the H#LL they are calling it now) would be just the start of how the US would look like in a few years.
June 19th, 2020
@sable663 : Yes, and I think about 80% of people wish Hillary was President. We’d have 50,000 fewer dead from Covid, for a start. But culture wars on dumb symbols and lost causes is more important to people like you, which is what the book is about. As I said, depressing.
June 20th, 2020
Thank you
June 20th, 2020
@Gweilo dead on! It’s quite the consistent feedback I’m getting but also reading from Mainstream reviews. GOP enablers of Trump-Wrath and focus, in vacuous policy making is exactly why Mueller, in his final report in his investigation, did not convict him nor clear him. He was simply moved from “Suspected of” to a “Subject of.” For those of us who know how to read and listen well, can make a vigorous argument That he is being manipulated by Hidden Hand/s holding the strings; His focus then became: WHO are the Marionettes? Btw thank you for the link and info I requested.
June 20th, 2020
My casual take is that Trump is constantly poring over complex policy documents and gravid research papers, featuring notes, index, bibliography - everything. He makes voluminous notations & perspicacious suggestions, to be “actioned” with alacrity. That’s why his light is on all night - Mussolini-fashion.
Is that you in the handsome picture; Phil Lynott; or the late departed royal Symbol, of princely renown?
June 20th, 2020
@caesar963 no, not me I had me up but then took it down (fear of Russo-bots) YES that is his majesty the late Regal Symbol. He was 19 there. I might re-upload mine again. Where is your’s monsieur?
June 20th, 2020
Alas, I am too hideous. I fear that my unfeasibly white Irish skin would be pilloried by an unsympathetic hoi polloi. So white it’s something akin to a reverse photo negative, like I’m haunting the bloody camera.
June 20th, 2020
And I don’t even have the red hair! (So I am an ensouled entity)
June 20th, 2020
That said, I do have some pictures of myself when we we were in Israel last, where I do look comparatively healthy. We’re on the hilltop fortress, Masada, and it’s nearly 50 degrees. People’s faces were melting, like the guys at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. It was something to behold.
June 20th, 2020
Stop it! None of the excuses hold weight, further I highly doubt you being hideous, nice try. Lol but when you are ready go for it put you avatar up! And that fortress adventure, in Israel sounds like it produced pictures as interesting as its destination.
June 21st, 2020
What about the infernal Russo-botskis? It’ll be dasvidaniya to image rights in perpetuity, in this, and all other, dimensions.
The history of Masada is absolutely fascinating: Herod, the Zealots, the siege, the final defence, its enduring impact on modern Israel.
June 21st, 2020
I’d almost place it alongside Pompeii and Herculaneum. And that’s high praise from one of the Julii Caesares.
June 23rd, 2020
Lol. What a ridiculous book. Paul Ryan? Good F&n God. I wouldn’t have believed it, but TDS is real. Leftists have taken over downtown Seattle and the head of BLM is an avowed Marxist - and that’s not an assumption. She just did an interview where she spelled that out. Let me be blunt, folks. Leftists have gone wrong. Power corrupts. Power doesn’t discriminate, it just corrupts. I grew up in an area where the fascist right intimidated people. That’s why I became a Democrat. But the left is exactly what the fascist right of my youth were. The world has flipped. The left has become evil. We ignore that at our peril.
July 2nd, 2020
The Real Impostor was Barry Soetoro aka Obama. A media created, media supported, and media protect Soros puppet that plunged this country into chaos, division, and weakness.
Corruption, Betrayal and Treason was the “legacy” of this Dunce-in-Chief.
Obama couldn’t make a pimple on Trump’s ass.
Read the National Enquirer before this toilet paper posing as a book.
July 12th, 2020
msndnc, nuff said
September 8th, 2020
thanks, looking for this one too
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