The 25-Year Decline of the Republican Party: With Dana Milbank

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

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🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Dana Milbank joins The Michael Steele Podcast to discuss his new book, "The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party." The pair discuss how the GOP has been deteriorating long before Trump, and the roles Republican members have played in it, from Newt Gingrich to Sarah Palin. They also discuss "the great replacement theory," and where the GOP is headed.

Check out the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Destructionists-Twenty-Five-Crack-Up-Republican-Party/dp/0385548133

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0:00.0	Well, you know, we get a lot of questions about the Republican Party.
0:06.3	And you know, what's happened to it?
0:08.4	You know, this is not my mom and my dad is Republican Party.
0:11.3	Well, the Republican Party, quite honest, has been deteriorating for many, many years
0:16.3	now.
0:17.3	And the reality of it is we are just now seeing the effects of it.
0:23.5	And what was exacerbated by Trump in many respects certainly didn't begin with him.
0:29.9	So my guest today on the podcast is Dana Milbank.
0:33.6	He is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Deconstructionist, the 25-year crack of
0:40.1	the Republican Party.
0:42.4	And we get into exactly how this crack was formed, how the party gave up trying to mend the
0:50.9	crack.
0:52.4	And now how we are living as that crack further widens.
0:56.8	And we see a lot of the ugly underbelly of our politics.
1:02.8	Dana is also a political colonist for the Washington Post whose work is syndicated nationally
1:07.3	and has also been a contributor to CNN and MSNBC.
1:12.7	So stick around and join us for a great conversation with Dana Milbank right after this.
1:27.2	Well everyone, like I said, we've got one of Washington's very fine reporters and individuals
1:38.0	who kind of had their finger in the pulse of a lot of what's not going on just here in
1:41.7	the DC but around the country.
1:43.6	And as I said, caps and capsulated in his new book of The Deconstructionist.
1:48.9	So Dana, welcome, man.
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