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The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics (edição 2020)

por Steve Benen

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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER 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 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."… (mais)
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Título:The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics
Autores:Steve Benen
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The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics por Steve Benen

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    It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump por Stuart Stevens (M_Clark)
    M_Clark: Stevens demonstrates that Republicans never even believed the things they had been preaching as their party platform.
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Benen makes a compelling argument with examples across numerous aspects of public policy – immigration, health care, economics, elections, and more – that the Republican Party is a post-policy body that refuses to govern. It’s so infuriating I could only read it a little at a time. ( )
  LizzK | Dec 8, 2023 |
The entire thesis that the Republican Party is a post-policy party truly unlocks the understanding every time they spout nonsense, lie, they ignore statistics, or they change the subject—there is no there there. They have no standards, no goals, no policy, and no means or desire to carry them out, even if they could.

Thank you to Steve Benen, I no feel like the a Republican whisperer, when I hear the interviews that don’t make sense, I just say, yes, that is a prime example of post-policy non-governance.

Vote on November 3 to send them all home. We deserve people who are interested in doing the job they are paid to do. ( )
  Riverdeboz | Jul 25, 2021 |
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ BOOK REVIEW: Steve Benen’s book “The Impostor’s” is excellent. Packed with twenty years of evidence to support his supposition that Republicans only interest is to gain and keep power through any means necessary. They have lost the ability to govern and legislate in any meaningful way. They exist to serve only as a coalition of opposition to impede progress that benefits “We the People.” Republicans primary goal is to provide tax cuts for rich and powerful corporations and to release these entities from all legal liability and responsibility. This is evidenced by the fact that they hire staffs of marketing and communications experts rather than legislative lawyers. These marketing and communication experts create fear and conflict by laser focusing messaging on cultural hot topics. In general the apex of this messaging focuses on God, guns, gays, immigrants, reproductive and minority rights and of late, Dr. Seuss. While the GOP stirs the emotional conflicts they also work to unravel social security, Medicare, Medicaid, and healthcare. You will agree with Bennen by the time you finish the book. Until the Republican Party reforms itself as a party interested in legislation and governing no one should support or vote for them. Benen writes with a sharp elbow sarcasm that’s sure to bring a smile to your face. I highly recommend this substantial book as well worth the time and money because it will inform the way you vote.

If you are interested in this topic then the perfect follow up book to read next is: [book:It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump|48806578] While Bennen’s book outlines what the GOP is doing Steven’s book gives the dirty nitty-gritty of how and why. By: @KatoJustus4 ( )
  KatoJustus | Apr 6, 2021 |
This is an ideal book to read in an election year. Steve Benen demonstrates that Republicans have no capacity to govern and have lost their ability as a result of being permanently in opposition to anything proposed by Democrats. Although nothing is really new if you have been following the news closely, the book is nevertheless good at hammering in Republican hypocrisies on every issue. . ( )
1 vote M_Clark | Aug 30, 2020 |
The Impostors
How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics
By: Steve Benen
Narrated by: Ron Butler
This book goes back decades and describes the changes the Republican party went through up to today. It is obvious the Republican party has changed over the years but other being more callous, it is really hard to really but a finger on it until someone like Mr Benen comes along and points it out with facts and dates. Then it is like, snap, "That's it!"
Easy to understand and follow. Takes the trip down memory lane from before even my time and points out the deterioration of the party to DO any constructive work. Then it gets to tRump's time in office and it changes to just insanity! There is nothing like this in the past! Still no policies or constructive work but plenty of trying to break the norms and the laws. Chaos!
This should be read not just by democrats but by republicans too so they can see how their party has been hijacked by extreme laziness and manipulators.
Great book! Wonderful narration! ( )
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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER 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 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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