Reagan started the descent. Gingrich finished the race to the bottom with stuff like the Contract with America, holding speeches in an empty house chamber, and directing R’s to never interact with Dem’s at all and always oppose anything they do even if it’d benefit R’s. Trump is just the natural consequence of that mindset.
Reagan started the descent. Gingrich finished the race to the bottom with stuff like the Contract with America, holding speeches in an empty house chamber, and directing R’s to never interact with Dem’s at all and always oppose anything they do even if it’d benefit R’s. Trump is just the natural consequence of that mindset.