My good friend Mike Lofgren, a former Republican staffer on the House and Senate Budget Committees, and author of the The Party is Over: How the Republicans Went Crazy, the Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted, is still elaborating on his accurate — and in this case hilarious — diagnosis of the party of Lincoln. My advice to main line Democrats: resist the temptation of schadenfreude; you are part of the problem, as Mike cogently explains in his important book.
Scientology for Rednecks: What the GOP Has Become
Mike Lofgren
Huffington Post, 02/17/2013
As with many religions, political parties have a tendency to start as a movement, transform into a business, and finally degenerate into a racket designed to fleece the yokels. One organization which has gone out of its way to illustrate this evolution is the Republican Party. And it has done so with a national scope and fundraising apparatus that would have made Jimmy Swaggart or Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker mute with awe.
