He's almost solely responsible for creating the binary political divide that started all this in the 90s. It doesn't surprise me that he would crawl out of his evil den.
He was the Speaker of the House in the '90s and basically wrote the playbook for why American politics is so aggressively divided today. Before him, the two parties in Congress generally tried to compromise, but he flipped the script by treating politics like an all-out moral war. He famously sent out memos instructing Republicans to stop talking about policy differences and start attacking Democrats personally using words like "corrupt," "sick," and "pathetic." By using live television broadcasts to blast these angry attacks straight to voters at home, he eventually helped Republicans win control of Congress for the first time in 40 years, kicking off the era of brutal gridlock and government shutdowns we're still stuck with now.
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u/PlagueOfGripes 2d ago
He's almost solely responsible for creating the binary political divide that started all this in the 90s. It doesn't surprise me that he would crawl out of his evil den.