Thank You For Your Servitude Quotes

“GOP voters were the opposite of Trump’s kryptonite; they were his superpower.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“Trump in the White House could “change the character of the generations of Americans that are following” and might result in “trickle-down racism,” “trickle-down misogyny,” and “trickle-down bigotry.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“Far from being a line of demarcation against Trump, January 6 would result in a rehabilitation of the former president that would propel a narrative of denial, lies, and autocratic intolerance of dissent that has become the hallmark of the GOP.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“This was a pure case of governing by intimidation, which is the essence of authoritarianism.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“This Republican party dances to whatever tunes come into Mr. Trump’s head,” wrote Edward Luce of the Financial Times.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“The I Told You So impulse was strong. “And, while we’re at it,” Kevin Williamson wrote in National Review, “maybe turning your party over to Generalissimo Walter Mitty, his hideous scheming spawn, and the studio audience from Hee-Haw was not just absolutely aces as a political strategy.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“Empathy, he finally assured me, “will be one of the strongest things about Trump. “When I’m in that position,” he continued, “when we have horrible hurricanes, all kinds of horrible things happen, you’ve got to have empathy.” Trump then returned to watching himself on the flat screen.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“As Jonathan V. Last wrote in The Bulwark on October 8, “Go write this down: after November 3, the price of GOP politics is going to be an insistence that, actually, Donald Trump did win the election and/or would have won if it hadn’t been stolen/rigged.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“The party did not bother to even produce a new platform, for the first time since 1856.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“contempt for anyone who voted for him.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“We had a Muslim president for seven and a half years,”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“It’s one small lie, followed by a demand for a bigger lie and a bigger concession, a bigger moral lapse,”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“Nunes’s once-promising career in Congress had been given over fully to being a house organ for Trump.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“Trumpism is, at heart, not a philosophy but an enemies list.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“now known as Governor Ron DeSantis.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“who was sitting here before him in full flesh and makeup.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“It is a mistake to think there is inconsistency between the McCain era and Trump Era,” said Steve Schmidt, the former Bush and McCain adviser. “Graham is essentially a pilot fish. They eat parasites and live off the detritus of larger fish. McCain was a noble shark who sustained his pilot fish. This did not make the Pilot fish noble though, just well fed. Sometimes Pilot fish move on. They are not loyal or faithful. Just hungry. Today he lives off of the vile detritus of his new host, Trump. He is indifferent to the disgustingness. He just wants his little piece.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“(ALL THE PRESIDENT’S YES-MEN—AND THEIR MASCARA!)”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“Trump was correct in his original assessment of so many Republican “leaders.” They have proven to be weak, conniving, and two-faced cowards. They fear Trump as much as they despise him. They fear his (and their own) voters as much as they have contempt for them. It”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“His epic career of ups and downs, feuds, outrages, and swift descent into shamelessness and desperation made Giuliani the master creature of the Trump Swamp.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“Expecting a Republican to do the tough and right and uncomfortable thing in the face of Donald Trump was like betting on the Washington Generals.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“The longer Trump survived without ramifications, the easier it became for him. No scandal could ever be processed before the next one came along. Outrage fatigue was his best enabler.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“Bottom line: any ambivalence Graham had over Trump’s conduct (for example, for trashing his best friend to the grave and beyond) was eclipsed by his desperation to remain a U.S. senator.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“Republicans have gone from being a party that touted virtue to being the most squalid and grubby expression of institutionalized self-interest in the modern history of the American republic.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“Trump, too, would pass, like a kidney stone.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“Don’t worry, Malcolm,” President Obama told his Australian counterpart, Malcolm Turnbull, when the latter expressed concern to him about Trump’s early GOP primary successes. “The American people will never elect a lunatic to sit in this office.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“Rubio became just another dispiriting casualty of Trump’s moral slaughter of the Republican Party. He was another in the parade of leaders willing to discard every principle they once held for the purpose of staying in office.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

“Relevance always comes with a price and a shelf life.”
― Mark Leibovich, Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission