Blame Newt Gingrich for Today’s Lying MAGA Republicans

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

News & Politics

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🗓️ 14 August 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The seed of cruelty that the GOP has fully adopted, and nurtured, had been planted long before Trump took office, says Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. Instead, he says on this bonus episode of The New Abnormal, someone else is to blame: Newt Gringrich. He explains why to co-host Molly Jong-Fast, along with more reporting on the GOP’s evolution that’s included in his new book, The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party. Plus! Co-hosts Andy Levy and Molly listen to more clips of politicians saying dumb things, this time starring Fox News’ Jesse Watters and sad son Eric Trump.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Molly John Fass, no relationship to Kim Jong-un.
0:04.6	I'm a left-wing pundit and a writer at the Atlantic Envote.
0:08.0	And I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious
0:13.7	objective.
0:14.7	And I've produced Suggesticated and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off
0:18.0	the rails.
0:19.0	We're here to have fun, smart conversations with the wisest and funniest people in science
0:23.5	and media and politics that help make what's happening today clearer.
0:28.0	Our world has been turned upside down and on the new abnormal we'll talk about the people
0:32.1	who got us into this mess and how we'll hopefully get ourselves out of it.
0:35.6	Hello and welcome to another Sunday bonus episode of the new abnormal.
0:38.8	We thank you so much for being here.
0:40.5	Today we have an extra special guest with one of our favorite writers today.
0:43.8	Of course, in Washington Post's columnist Dana Milbank, he has a new book, The Destructionist,
0:48.8	the 25-year crack-up of the Republican Party, and he's going to tell us everything about
0:53.1	his new book.
0:54.2	But first, let's have some fun.
0:56.3	All right, are you guys ready to listen to some clips?
0:59.2	Always.
1:00.2	Yes.
1:01.2	Clips.
1:02.2	Yes.
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