The Republican Party’s dramatic shift into America’s pro-Russian party and subsequent election of Donald Trump as President shocked the world.

An even more surprising development has been watching the Republican Party circle the wagons around a Donald Trump whose entire campaign has high level Russian contacts, and their slavish devotion to the President — a womanizing pathological liar — as he attacks everyone in the world with shameless lies, except Vladimir Putin

Trump has nothing but gushing bromance and tweets of praise for Putin.

One man isn’t surprised.

Dr. Edward Dmitrievich Lozansky.

The true story of a Soviet emigrant and his journey from anti-communist dissident to establishment to Putinist reveals a deeper truth about the Republican Party.

Edward Lozansky was most likely another one of “The Americans,” but plainly he was the big one who got away.

He literally wrote the book in Russian on how to lobby The Hill.

The Russian Foreign Ministry’s company “International Relations” was Lozansky’s publisher.

His story tells how GOP has been ideologically captured by Russian oil money and a Trump campaign built upon Putinism — the politics of hate, oligarchy and lies, especially lies — all of which Dr. Lozansky fed the highest ranks of the Republican Party apparatus with the opportunity to do business in oil-rich Russia.

These are the Chapters of the Grand Old Putin Party:

1. Prologue — Continues Below