The Impostors - Steve Benen
Category: Documentary
Narrator: Ron Butler
Tags: Documentary, Political, History, Adults
Duration: 11:04:28 389 Pages, For decades, American voters innocently assumed the two major political parties were equally mature and responsible governing entities, ideological differences aside. That belief is due for an overhaul: in recent years, the Republican Party has undergone an astonishing metamorphosis, one so baffling and complete that few have fully reckoned with the reality and its consequences., Republicans, simply put, have quit governing. As MSNBCs Steve Benen charts in his groundbreaking new book, the contemporary GOP has become a post-policy party. Republicans are effectively impostors, presenting themselves as officials who are ready to take seriously the substance of problem solving, but whose sole focus is the pursuit and maintenance of power. Astonishingly, they are winningat the cost of pushing the political system to the breaking point., Despite having billed itself as the party of ideas, the Republican Party has walked away from the hard but necessary work of p
