“If your campaign is a cult of personality, can you really modulate that personality and still retain the cult?” Leibovich points out. Then the Republicans figured, well, he’ll pivot toward solemnity now that he’s president. From the author of the 1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington’s swamp into a gold-plated hot tuband a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cult. Thank You for Your Servitude explores the powerful Republicans who back Trump J 6:25 PM Transcript Judy Woodruff: Many books have been written about Donald Trump and his presidency, but few have examined the motivations of the Republicans who initially were wary of him, but later pledged complete loyalty. But Clinton campaigned with all the zest of a day-old kale salad, overwhelmed by Trump’s deluge of nacho cheese dip. We can check out any time we want, but only time will tell if we can ever leave. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVITUDE DONALD TRUMP'S WASHINGTON AND THE PRICE OF SUBMISSION by Mark Leibovich RELEASE DATE: JRelive the Trump administration from the perspectives of the toadies who enabled it. They swallowed hard and backed him against Hillary Clinton, secure in the fog of conventional wisdom that she would win and provide a perfect piñata for Republicans when she became president. Thank You for Your Servitude isn’t another view from the Oval Office: It’s the view from the Trump Hotel. teach our kids not to do in kindergarten.” But he slaughtered the traditional Republicans. South Carolina’s Nikki Haley said, “Donald Trump is everything we. Cruz didn’t even endorse him in his convention speech. Florida’s Marco Rubio talked about the size of Trump’s hands.

Their attacks on the Play-Doh despot were belated and pathetic. First, they ignored Trump’s utter lack of knowledge and crass behavior, hoping not to alienate his surprising legions. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump’s fellow Republicans devolved toward cowardice through stages of moral blindness and, finally, lickspittle supplication.

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