David Corn

“The problem was Republicans---the voters, the people. Not just those few thousand in the January 6 rage-driven mob, but the millions who accepted trump's reality free and irrational assertions, who looked to this dissembling power-mad egotist for the truth... His prejudices, his lies, his resentments were theirs. Millions love trump for that. Their fervor was the real threat to the nation.”
― David Corn, American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy

“Gingrich’s goal was to tar the Democrats as the party of corruption. In 1984, one of his advisers wrote a strategy memo saying that Gingrich and his allies should view themselves as the Viet Cong fighting the South Vietnamese government (the Democrats) while accepting support from the North Vietnamese (the Republican establishment). Both, he stated, were the “enemies.” The Democrats, he noted, “we must destroy” and the Republicans “we must take advantage of, lie to, sidetrack, confound, and possess by recruitment and propaganda.” The goal was to cast Democrats as “the oppressor,” a tyrannical enemy warranting the utmost despisal. This memo, as Gingrich’s biographer Julian Zelizer later said, was his “road map.” When”
― David Corn, American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy