The New York Times bestselling author of The Party Is Over
delivers a no-holds-barred exposé of who really wields power in
Washington
Every four years, tempers are tested and marriages fray as Americans
head to the polls to cast their votes. But does anyone really care what
we think? Has our vaunted political system become one big, expensive,
painfully scripted reality TV show? In this powerful expose of the sins
and excesses of Beltwayland, a longtime Republican party insider argues
that we have become an oligarchy in form if not in name. Hooked on war,
genuflecting to big donors, in thrall to discredited economic theories
and utterly bereft of a moral compass, America's governing classes are
selling their souls to entrenched interest while our bridges collapse,
wages, stagnate, and our water is increasingly undrinkable.
Mike Lofgren was the first to use the term Deep State, in an essay and
exclusive interview on Moyers and Company, to refer to a web of
entrenched interests in the US government and beyond (most notably Wall
Street and Silicon Valley, which controls access to our every click and
swipe) that dictate America's defense decisions, trade policies and
priorities with little regard for the actual interests or desires of the
American people. In this essential and eye-opening book Lofgren takes
his argument one step further. Drawing on insights gleaned over three
decades on Capitol Hill, much of it on the Budget Committee, he paints a
gripping portrait of the dismal swamp on the Potomac and the revolution
it will take to reclaim our government and set us back on course.
