Mike Lofgren

About the Author

Mike Lofgren is a veteran Washington insider who spent nearly three decades as a congressional staffer, serving on the House and Senate budget committees and as a senior aide to the House Republican Study Committee. Drawing from his extensive experience in the corridors of power, Lofgren offers incisive critiques of American political dysfunction in his acclaimed books. In 'The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government,' he exposes the shadowy alliance between Wall Street, the military-industrial complex, and the permanent bureaucracy that undermines democratic governance. His earlier work, 'The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted,' dissects the failures of both major parties and their betrayal of the American middle class. Now retired from Capitol Hill, Lofgren continues to write and speak on the erosion of constitutional principles and the need for systemic reform.