Amy Duncan and her husband purchased the Indianola Record-Herald from Gannett and will be approaching the business with a local focus. Later in the hour, the story of a couple who bought back a local Iowa paper. He also shares his thoughts on what it would look like for new leadership to take power in the Republican and Democratic parties. Liebovich joins River to River host Ben Kieffer to discuss how Trump shook up the Republican party and where Iowa’s Republican senators fit in.

We can check out any time we want, but only time will tell if we can ever leave.In his new book, Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission, Mark Liebovich details how various GOP officials reacted to former President Donald Trump’s rise to power and how even his critics sought proximity to him to remain relevant.

Thank You for Your Servitude isn’t another view from the Oval Office: it’s the view from the Trump Hotel. It’s a vista that makes the Washington of This Town seem like a comedy of manners in comparison. All that cynicism, shading into nihilism, led to a country truly unhinged from reality, and to the events of January 6, 2021. Meanwhile, many of the most alpha of the lapdogs happily conceded to Mark Leibovich that they were “in on the joke.” As Lindsey Graham told the author, his supporters in South Carolina generally don’t read The New York Times, and they won’t read this book, either. Trump’s savage bullying of everyone in his circle, along with his singular command of his political base, created a dangerous culture of submission in the Republican Party. 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. 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. Even more, in their outrage: Trump was a menace and an affront to our democracy. 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. Book tip | Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submissionįrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington’s “swamp” into a gold-plated hot tub-and a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cult.

Thank you for the servitude