The Republican Civil War: What Liz Cheney's Wyoming Tells Us about a Divided American Right

Author/Contributor(s):	Muravchik, Stephanie
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	03/10/2026
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In The Republican Civil War, Stephanie Muravchik and Jon A. Shields draw from years of on-the-ground research in Wyoming--the most Republican state in the nation--to show why its political class has been embroiled in a fierce battle for over a decade. After interviewing dozens of activists and elected officials across the state, they found this factional war isn't about ideological divides, but it instead divides those believes politics should be fundamentally about governance from new MAGA insurgents who think it's about expressing an identity. The authors emphasize that the new insurgents often don't have college degrees, showing how the diploma divide is affecting both political parties.