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The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party

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In The Destructionists, Dana Milbank traces the making of the Contract with America in 1994 to the recent insurrection of January 2021. Milbank looks at key figures in the current Republican Party, offering her own theories as to why the party has changed drastically. Milbank’s research and commentary on controversial figures such as Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich is an impressive feat, giving insight into their rise to power.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political power by any means necessary, by a hugely popular Washington Post political columnist

In 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the Contract with America and put bipartisanship on notice. Twenty-five years later, on January 6, 2021, a bloodthirsty mob incited by Presi...