As readers of The Washington Post and his syndicated column know, Dana Milbank covers politics with snap and crackle. His gift, and his dogged reporting, serve him well in his new book.

If you’ve ever wanted to permanently freeze your television on MSNBC or be locked in the network’s greenroom, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank has written the book for you.

Milbank takes so many individual Republicans to task in this volume that one wonders: Do those not mentioned feel left out?.

... an excoriating history of the Republican Party.

A well-researched, dispiriting dissection of politics that lends a genealogy to homegrown authoritarianism..