Mike Lofgren
Mike Lofgren is a former career congressional staff member. His is author of The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless and the Middle Class Got Shafted and The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government.
ALL POSTS BY Mike Lofgren
January 11, 2017The frightening rise of authoritarian populism in the West is a very real, clear and present danger.
July 28, 2016History may not repeat itself exactly, but there's something eerily familiar about the DNC email leaks.
July 20, 2016America surely has problems, but the Republican Right tends to ignore its role in causing them and now — under President Obama — exaggerates how bad the situation is.
June 9, 2016Despite a nearly $600 billion military budget, congressional Republicans are demanding more money for the Pentagon while refusing to either cut the Army band or pass emergency funds to fight the Zika virus.
May 24, 2016The trouble with Trump isn't because of too much democracy; it's decades of political malfeasance that have made Americans furious.
February 8, 2016Surveying the real estate choices of Washington’s contractors, lobbyists and corporate lawyers reveals the raw, nouveau-riche tastes of our capital’s shadow government.
January 6, 2016Welcome to Mike Lofgren’s Washington, DC — a This Town, where the political theater that is endlessly tweeted and blogged about has nothing to do with actual decision making.
November 9, 2015It's not just structural advantages that give the GOP an edge; it's the unsettled, angry mood of the nation.
November 2, 2015The American ruling class is ensconced in the "Washington Consensus" and deaf to any evidence that challenges its worldview.
October 29, 2015Ben Carson’s rise to the top of the Republican presidential field shows that many Republicans, especially Christian fundamentalists, have decoupled from the real world — and are proud of it.
