![]() ![]() As Lindsey Graham told the author, his people in South Carolina don’t read the New York Times, and they won’t read this book. Many of the most alpha of the lapdogs happily conceded to Mark Leibovich that they were in on the joke. Trump is the most unconstrained bully ever to hold the office, and his savage bullying of everyone in his circle, and his singular control of his political base, created a cult of submission, of toeing the Trump line, however obviously untrue. What will these politicos do to preserve their place in the sun, or at least the orbit of the spray tan? What will they do to preserve their “relevance”? Almost anything, it turns out. Thank You for Your Servitude is Mark Leibovich’s unflinching account of the utter moral rout of one of America’s two major political parties, tracking the transformation of Rubio, Cruz, Graham and their ilk into the administration’s enablers and alpha lapdogs, and the swamp’s lesser lights into chasers of the grift. Even more, in their outrage: Trump was a menace and an affront to our democracy. ![]() ![]() In the early months of Trump’s candidacy, the GOP’s most important figures, people such as Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham, were united-and loud-in their scorn and contempt. ![]() From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how Washington’s “swamp”, far from being drained, was turned into a gold-plated hot tub by Trump, with the connivance of the GOP political class, out of opportunism and cowardice-because how bad could it get? ![]()
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