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At least SIX Republican lawmakers among the crowd at Capitol Hill
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<blockquote data-quote="Andrewn" data-source="post: 75673960" data-attributes="member: 420774"><p>GOP forcibly moved in this direction not 12 but 26 years ago. It clearly dates back to Gingrich's group taking over the House in 1995.</p><p></p><p>"A number of scholars have credited Gingrich with playing a key role in undermining democratic norms in the United States, and hastening political polarization and partisan prejudice.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:0-7" target="_blank">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:1-8" target="_blank">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:2-9" target="_blank">[9]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-58" target="_blank">[58]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:3-59" target="_blank">[59]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:9-60" target="_blank">[60]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:4-61" target="_blank">[61]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-62" target="_blank">[62]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:7-10" target="_blank">[10]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:6-63" target="_blank">[63]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:8-64" target="_blank">[64]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:10-11" target="_blank">[11]</a> According to Harvard University political scientists Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky, Gingrich's speakership had a profound and lasting impact on American politics and health of American democracy. They argue that Gingrich instilled a "combative" approach in the Republican Party, where hateful language and hyper-partisanship became commonplace, and where democratic norms were abandoned. Gingrich frequently questioned the patriotism of Democrats, called them corrupt, compared them to fascists, and accused them of wanting to destroy the United States. Gingrich furthermore oversaw several major government shutdowns.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-65" target="_blank">[65]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-66" target="_blank">[66]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-67" target="_blank">[67]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:3-59" target="_blank">[59]</a></p><p></p><p>"University of Maryland political scientist Lilliana Mason uses Gingrich's instructions to Republicans to use words such as “betray, bizarre, decay, destroy, devour, greed, lie, pathetic, radical, selfish, shame, sick, steal, and traitors” about Democrats as an example of a breach in social norms and exacerbation of partisan prejudice.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:0-7" target="_blank">[7]</a> Gingrich is a key figure in the 2017 book <em>The Polarizers</em> by Colgate University political scientist Sam Rosenfeld about the American political system's shift to polarization and gridlock.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:1-8" target="_blank">[8]</a> Rosenfeld describes Gingrich as follows, "For Gingrich, responsible party principles were paramount... From the outset, he viewed the congressional minority party's role in terms akin to those found in parliamentary systems, prioritizing drawing stark programmatic contrasts over engaging the majority party as junior participants in governance."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:1-8" target="_blank">[8]</a>"</p><p></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#Role_in_political_polarization" target="_blank">Newt Gingrich - Wikipedia</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>With the current policies having been in place for 26 years, I doubt that any Republican younger than 50 y/o even remembers what normal conservatism looks like. I wish luck to the Lincoln Project but they may have to leave the GOP and join one of the fringe parties.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andrewn, post: 75673960, member: 420774"] GOP forcibly moved in this direction not 12 but 26 years ago. It clearly dates back to Gingrich's group taking over the House in 1995. "A number of scholars have credited Gingrich with playing a key role in undermining democratic norms in the United States, and hastening political polarization and partisan prejudice.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:0-7'][7][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:1-8'][8][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:2-9'][9][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-58'][58][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:3-59'][59][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:9-60'][60][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:4-61'][61][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-62'][62][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:7-10'][10][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:6-63'][63][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:8-64'][64][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:10-11'][11][/URL] According to Harvard University political scientists Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky, Gingrich's speakership had a profound and lasting impact on American politics and health of American democracy. They argue that Gingrich instilled a "combative" approach in the Republican Party, where hateful language and hyper-partisanship became commonplace, and where democratic norms were abandoned. Gingrich frequently questioned the patriotism of Democrats, called them corrupt, compared them to fascists, and accused them of wanting to destroy the United States. Gingrich furthermore oversaw several major government shutdowns.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-65'][65][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-66'][66][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-67'][67][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:3-59'][59][/URL] "University of Maryland political scientist Lilliana Mason uses Gingrich's instructions to Republicans to use words such as “betray, bizarre, decay, destroy, devour, greed, lie, pathetic, radical, selfish, shame, sick, steal, and traitors” about Democrats as an example of a breach in social norms and exacerbation of partisan prejudice.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:0-7'][7][/URL] Gingrich is a key figure in the 2017 book [I]The Polarizers[/I] by Colgate University political scientist Sam Rosenfeld about the American political system's shift to polarization and gridlock.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:1-8'][8][/URL] Rosenfeld describes Gingrich as follows, "For Gingrich, responsible party principles were paramount... From the outset, he viewed the congressional minority party's role in terms akin to those found in parliamentary systems, prioritizing drawing stark programmatic contrasts over engaging the majority party as junior participants in governance."[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-:1-8'][8][/URL]" [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#Role_in_political_polarization']Newt Gingrich - Wikipedia[/URL] With the current policies having been in place for 26 years, I doubt that any Republican younger than 50 y/o even remembers what normal conservatism looks like. I wish luck to the Lincoln Project but they may have to leave the GOP and join one of the fringe parties. [/QUOTE]
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