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Through researched examples, it contrasts slogans with policy, campaign rhetoric with governing outcomes, and exposes a shift from coherent programs to reactive negation. The book highlights recurring patterns across domestic and foreign issues, showing how party cynicism and warped incentives can undermine effective leadership and decision-making.","NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe  \nMPOSTORS  \nHow Republicans Quit Governing andSeized American Politics  \nSTEVE BENEN  \nProducer,The Rachel Maddow Show\"I can't say it in strong enough terms:Read.This.Book.\"—RACHELMADDOW  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/impostorshowrepu0000bene  \n# Praise forThe Impostors\n\n“There is nobody who is writing in an episodic,daily way,in anymedium,anywhere in the world,who has more influence on theway I think about politics than Steve Benen.\"—Rachel Maddow  \n\"A terrific read,makes its point(which,I think,is irrefutable)witha minimum of spin or editorializing,and most of all,is an excel-lent compilation of all the anecdotes that add up to the book's,and my own,inescapable conclusion....There is so much goodstuff in there that it would be impossible to select enough excerptsto do it justice....Benen’s book is an excellent compilation ofanecdotes that illustrate the difference between slogans and pol-icy,between campaign rhetoric and policy,between ideology andpolicy,and between made-up nonsense and policy.It's a must-have,in that it's important to have all of this in one place in orderto understand what happened,how,and why.”—Daily Kos  \n\"Through countless ripped-from-the-headlines examples,The Im-postors paints a grim picture of a political party in which the kidshave taken over the grown-up table and the responsible adults arenowhere to be seen.”—Washington Post  \n\"A staggering chronicle of Republican duplicity....A skillfulillustration of how rank cynicism allowed Donald Trump toeasily take control of the Republican Party.”  \n—Washington Monthly  \n\"It should now be clear to everyone:The Republican Party is in-capable of governing.Sure,this sounds partisan.In fact,it's ananalytical reflection based on what is happening right before oureyes....Steve Benen persuasively chronicled how Republicanshad become a ‘post-policy'party in his book whose title bringshome his point:The Impostors.”   —E.J.Dionne,Washington Post  \n\"In this thoroughly researched book,Benen,blogger and award-winning producer of The Rachel Maddow Show,makes a solid casethat in recent years,Republicans have repeatedly upended theironce-cherished beliefs in order to focus on more power-orientedpolitical and ideological goals....The author ably lays out themany disturbing trends in the Republican political arena,mak-ing a convincing case for his argument that the GOP has quitgoverning'and now merely focuses on attaining and wieldingpower or simply negating any progress made by Democrats....A clear-eyed argument that ‘strategy and governing [have]beenreplaced by instincts and partisan id.”—Kirkus Reviews  \n“A sober-minded attack on the modern GOP....Benen writesfuidly and incisively.”—Publishers Weekly  \n# THEIMPOSTORS\n\nHow Republicans Quit Governingand Seized American Politics  \nSteve Benen  \nTo my wife,Eve,and my mom,Gini  \nTHE IMPOSTORS.Copyright ◎2020 by Steve Benen.Afterword 2021 by Steve Benen.All rights reserved.Printed in the United States of America.No part of this book may beused or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in thecase of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.For information,addressHarperCollins Publishers,195 Broadway,New York,NY 10007.  \nHarperCollins books may be purchased for educational,business,or sales promotionaluse.For information,please email the Special Markets Department at SPsales@harpercollins.com.  \nA hardcover edition of this book was published in 2020 by William Morrow,an imprintof HarperCollins Publishers.  \nFIRST CUSTOM HOUSE PAPERBACK EDITION PUBLISHED 202I.  \nDesigned by Nancy Singer  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been 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