![]() Scaife then joined with Christopher Ruddy, who would become Donald Trump’s friend and informal advisor, to found Newsmax. The prime donor of Gingrich’s political training organization, the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) was Mellon Scaife. Rush Limbaugh, who called the 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton “the White House dog,” claimed, “Foster was murdered in an apartment owned by Hillary Clinton.” Milbank starts with the suicide of the Clintons’ aide, Vince Foster. I assume that readers will see and will be shocked by the cruelty and lies of that decade, and how they foreshadow today’s assaults on democracy. ![]() This piece only has room for a brief overview of the 90s. Gordon Liddy, Sean Hannity, and Fox News took off, as Newt Gingrich became the key political driver of an ideology that would dismantle legislative norms and institutions. In the 1990s, the false and polarizing propaganda of Rush Limbaugh, G. There were calls for diversity in their party in order to reach more voters, but it went in the opposite direction. From 1992 to the present the Republicans won the popular vote only once. REVIEW - Dana Milbank’s The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five-Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party is based on his quarter of a century of political reporting. This was first published on Diane Ravitch’s Blog and published here by permission. ![]() John Thompson, retired OKCPS teacher and historian, reviews Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank’s newest book about “crack-up” of the Republican Party.
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