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Thank you for your servitude, Donald Trump's Washington and the price of submission, Mark Leibovich

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Thank you for your servitude

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Mark Leibovich

Donald Trump's Washington and the price of submission

In the early months of Trump’s candidacy, the Republican Party’s most important figures, people such as Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham, were united - and loud - in their scorn and contempt. Even more, in their outrage: Trump was a menace and an affront to our democracy. Then, awkwardly, Trump won. Thank You for Your Servitude is Mark Leibovich’s unflinching account of the moral rout of a major American political party, tracking the transformation of Rubio, Cruz, Graham, and their ilk into the administration’s chief enablers, and the swamp’s lesser lights into frantic chasers of the grift. What would these politicos do to preserve their place in the sun, or at least the orbit of the spray tan? What would they do to preserve their “relevance”? Almost anything, it turns out

Prologue: Last call at the Trump hotel -- The problem -- The joke -- Unity--or else! -- The inevitable -- Apocalypse 45 -- The punch line -- Bonfire of the genuflectors -- Snowflake city -- The caretaker's dilemma -- Funeral porn -- Stinkball -- Bristling, exploding in rage, and increasingly isolated -- Contagion -- The Fifth Avenue crowd -- Troublemaker -- Hell, in review -- Caracas-on-the Potomac -- "Will you shut up, man?" -- "What is the downside for humoring him" -- The big one -- Have a good life -- The lifeline -- The unraveling -- Epilogue: The house of submission: still open

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