Mark Leibovich’s book is an excellent complement to Tim Miller’s ‘Why We Did It.’ Both men are interested in the accomplices who aided and abetted Donald Trump’s reign of terror on the campaign trail and in the White House, Miller from the perspective of a campaign operative and Leibovich from his viewpoint as a Washington correspondent for the New York Times. They cover familiar territory, but ‘Thank You for Your Servitude’ is a step-by-step dissection of the Trump presidency as it “spiraled” and “unraveled” (two of his favorite metaphors for DJT’s increasingly outrageous and demanding behavior). Neither book quite gets at the core deficiency of the Republican Party that would allow so many to continue to humor him, kow-tow to him, and pretend that he had anything of value to offer the American people, even after it’s clear that the emperor has no clothes (and Leibovich follows him to the bitter end, to Jan. 6 and beyond). It is the vacuum at the heart of the GOP—the lack of principled policy positions—that enables so many to sign onto servitude to Trump distorted reality, even those who tend to do it with a wink at others who are also “in on the joke” (another of Leibovich’s favorite metaphors). The problem is that this outlook is becoming the ideology that drives the party, as the author points out, with terrifying implications for the future: “Trumpism becomes more of a style and an ethic. It is not tethered to any set of ideas so much as an expansive code of denial and openness to lies” (284). Until the Republicans find a new lodestar, the American republic will remain in danger. But thank God for the Liz Cheneys, the Adam Kinzingers, and writers like Leibovich and Miller.