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Mike Lofgren Quotes

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The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe.
Mike Lofgren

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The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight.
Mike Lofgren

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The GOP’s thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When one party repudiates the whole concept of compromise, it is inevitable that the government will lurch from one crisis to another.
Mike Lofgren

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The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.
Mike Lofgren

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A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress’s generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.
Mike Lofgren

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We must let our hopes be greater than our fears.
Mike Lofgren