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Aug 9, 2022 · The book "The Destructionists" by Dana Milbank outlines how the Republican Party has undergone a significant transformation over the last quarter-century, leading to a series of government failures and a loss of faith in American democracy.
Twenty-five years later, on January 6, 2021, a bloodthirsty mob incited by President Trump invaded the Capitol. Dana Milbank sees a clear line from the Contract with America to the coup attempt.
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Dana Milbank makes the case that the current dysfunction of the U.S. Congress, which has infected the rest of government and now the entire political climate started with the petulant and pugnacious Newt Gingrich.
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Aug 9, 2022 · THE DESTRUCTIONISTS THE TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR CRACK-UP OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. by Dana Milbank ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 9, 2022. A well-researched, dispiriting dissection of politics that lends a genealogy to homegrown authoritarianism.
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Oct 31, 2023 · Twenty-five years later, on January 6, 2021, a bloodthirsty mob incited by President Trump invaded the Capitol. Dana Milbank sees a clear line from the Contract with America to the coup attempt.
As Milbank puts it with devastating directness, “The rise of Gingrich and his shock troops fundamentally altered American government for a generation and counting, and set the United States on a course toward the ruinous politics of today.”
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Oct 31, 2023 · In The Destructionists, Dana Milbank traces the making of the Contract with America in 1994 to the recent insurrection of January 2021. Milbank looks at key figures in the current Republican Party, offering her own theories as to why the party has changed drastically.
