The 25 Year Crack-up of the GOP
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party is the new book by Washington Post Opinion Columnist, Dana Milbank. In this interview with Bill, he takes us from Newt Gingrich in 1990’s all the way to the GOP response to the Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant. And now we have one party that is not committed to our democracy. You can buy this great book at Amazon.com.
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| 1:04.1 | What the hell ever happened to the Republican Party? |
| 1:08.9 | I get asked that question all the time, and I understand why. |
| 1:12.5 | Hello, everybody. You're listening to the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:19.0 | Welcome. One thing for sure, this is not the Republican Party of our grandfathers or even our fathers. They may have voted for Ronald Reagan or George Bush. Today, neither Reagan nor Bush |
| 1:25.9 | could win a Republican primary. |
| 1:28.3 | They're not extreme enough for today's Republican crowd. |
| 1:32.9 | But, you know, as much as we'd like to, we can't blame it all on Donald Trump. |
| 1:38.2 | In his powerful new book, The Destructionists, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank traces how over 25 years, starting with |
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