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From bestselling author and Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank, Fools on the Hill is the funniest, you-can't-believe it inside story of the current GOP House. With a group that includes some of the zaniest hooligans to ever serve in Washington, Milbank details in comic detail the countless shenanigans, absurd chaos, and self-inflicted paralysis that symbolizes the state of the Republican Party under Trump--and how this House does everything but govern, at everyone's peril (and confusion). 

About the Author

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Dana Milbank is a nationally syndicated op-ed columnist with The Washington Post and a New York Times bestselling author.
 
His column appears in the Post and hundreds of other newspapers.  Milbank also has provided political commentary for MSNBC, CNN and various other TV and radio outlets, and he is the author of four books on politics, including the New York Times bestseller “The Destructionists” and the national bestseller “Homo Politicus.” 
 
Before starting the column, Milbank was a White House reporter for the Post and won the White House Correspondents’ Association Beckman award for “repeated excellence in White House coverage.”  He previously worked as a political reporter in the Post’s Style section, as a senior editor of the New Republic, and as a congressional and foreign correspondent of the Wall Street Journal. He is a graduate of Yale University.

Praise For…

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Praise for The Destructionists

"There is a fine and elegant line between humor and horror, and no one walks it any better than Dana Milbank. Literally no writer in Washington is better suited to answering the GOP’s ever-present 'How Did We Get Here?' question. It’s all right here in The Destructionists, in all its depressing, spiraling detail – and yet so thoroughly enjoyable, too. That’s the Milbank Miracle, right there. I devoured this."—Mark Leibovich, This Town and Thank you for Your Servitude

"Dana Milbank is a sizzling hot observer of American politics. His writing is irreverent, provocative and, whether or not you agree with his point of view — always entertaining."—Jonathan Karl, Front Row at the Trump Show and Betrayal

"In this painful, powerful, and deeply necessary account of the devolution of the GOP, one of the nation’s most trenchant political observers chronicles the growing threats to our democracy. Dana Milbank has written a riveting history and a bracing warning about the challenges we continue to face. How did we get here? Where did the epic failures, divisions, and dysfunctions in our politics come from? Milbank argues that Donald Trump, for all his faults, didn’t create this noxious environment -- he was the monster that the GOP had been creating for more than a quarter century."—Charles J. Sykes, How the Right Lost its Mind

“In this stunning historical review of the modern Republican Party, Dana Milbank chronicles the GOP’s race to the bottom in undermining faith in government by destroying long held and established democratic norms and principles. From swift boating a presidential candidate to sparking the birtherism movement of America’s first Black President and the non stop repeats of the 'Big Lie,'  Milbank proves that the Republicans' war is with  democratic institutions and perhaps with democracy itself.”—Donna Brazile, former Interim Chair, Democratic National Committee, Hacks: The Inside Story of Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House

"With characteristic wit, Dana Milbank reveals how, step-by-step, characters like Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove (bolstered by a barrage of dark money and rightwing media) replaced normal politics with character assassination, violence, endemic lying and racial division. Trump was the inevitable result after the party of limited government morphed over decades into one obsessed with holding power at all costs. Dana documents how Trump accelerated the downward spiral, making it 'safe' to be a bigot and 'weaponizing' conspiracy theories. If you want to understand Trump, this account of Republicans’ destruction of democracy, truth and decency is essential reading."—Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post columnist and author of Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump

"A thorough and scathing account of how the Republican Party fell prey to Trumpism."—The New York Times Book Review