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How The GOP Gave Up On Governing In Order To Keep Winning Elections: The GOP's push to win elections at all costs opened the door to a new leader who would cement its status as a post-policy party.

The following is an excerpt from “The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics” by Steve Benen. It is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.

Life During a Post-Policy Presidency

Despite his status as the first major-party presidential nominee in American history to have literally no experience in public service of any kind, Donald Trump was aggressively hostile to the very idea of a campaign shaped by the substance of governing and equally indifferent to learning how his own government works.

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