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This is SPOT-ON, almost ... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/opinion/trump-newt-gingrich.html?referringSource=articleShare
What @JenSeniorNY misses is an
important event that allowed for Newt. The decline of the @GOP more truly began w/ Nixon’s So’ern Strategy & criminality in service to power. Yet Dick still had to play along.
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important event that allowed for Newt. The decline of the @GOP more truly began w/ Nixon’s So’ern Strategy & criminality in service to power. Yet Dick still had to play along.
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Following presidents had to & chose to, as did Speakers. Until ... the fall of the USSR left US as sole “superpower.” Without the enemy threat, the Executive Branch could be assailed, even in foreign policy.
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Since that time, all three branches have been grabbing for power - such is typical when a vacuum is created. Newt, shameless, intro’d vulgarity of behavior, death of cooperation in governance.
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His attack on Clinton was unprecedented, previously inconceivable. Yet, when Cheney took power as W’s VEEP, the Executive was not to be limited, but limitless & “unitary.”
5/9ths of SCOTUS even helped w/ the initial coup.
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5/9ths of SCOTUS even helped w/ the initial coup.
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A Black man became President, & all GOP effort returned to taking power away from Exec. Now the apotheosis of these new Republican “values” gets the WH, tables turned again, & it has only gotten worse.
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It’s true that Newt was the original “short-fingered vulgarian”, but he didn’t start the fire. It took the fall of the Soviet Union to embolden him throwing gasoline on the flames. Republican shamefulness goes back much further; Newt was just the first to take it to 11.
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