The Destructionists Quotes

“And then there was Gingrich. In 1983, he pushed for the House to expel two members for having affairs with House pages, saying “a free”
― Dana Milbank, The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party

“The slash-and-burn politics he brought to the Capitol made it ungovernable, and the zealots he brought into the Republican Party had no wish to govern. It has been that way ever since.”
― Dana Milbank, The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party

“Anti-Defamation League reported roughly a doubling of anti-Semitic incidents between 2015 and 2019, to a record level. And Americans saw their country being torn apart by race. As recently as 2013, 70 percent of Americans believed there were good relations between white and Black people, Gallup polling found. That plunged among both Black and white Americans as Trump rose in 2015, and by 2021, only 42 percent said relations were good. —”
― Dana Milbank, The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party

“Death threats. Gag laws. Book banning. Secret informants. Voter suppression and election intimidation. Vows to imprison political opponents.”
― Dana Milbank, The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party