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Newt may have been the last but that's his own fault. He oversaw the GOP as it shifted from everyday "shitty conservatives" to insurrectionist nationalists.
I just want to make sure I get that off my chest. Newt heavily contributed to starting this. He's the original McConnell. He wrote the playbook.
He also wrote the first republican purity test with the "Contract with America", which started the repubs on their fanatical obsession with only having "true" repubs in office. He's responsible for so much of what's wrong nowadays, but so many people seem to have forgotten that.
Those of us that DO remember want him executed but Democrats and enlightened centrists keep telling me that we just need to win him over with better ideas while reaching across the aisle to join together in a spirit of bipartisan aloha.
He also wrote the first republican purity test with the "Contract with America", which started the repubs on their fanatical obsession with only having "true" repubs in office. He's responsible for so much of what's wrong nowadays, but so many people seem to have forgotten that.