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Alberto Fujimori
Newt Gingrich is a Republican congressman from Georgia who served as Speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999. Famous for his exaggerated rhetoric and obstructionist tactics during the Clinton administration, Gingrich played a central role in pushing the modern Republican Party to the right and discarding congressional traditions of mutual toleration and institutional forbearance.
Newt Gingrich Quotes in How Democracies Die
The How Democracies Die quotes below are all either spoken by Newt Gingrich or refer to Newt Gingrich. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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In the early 1990s, Gingrich and his team distributed memos to Republican candidates instructing them to use certain negative words to describe Democrats, including pathetic, sick, bizarre, betray, antiflag, antifamily, and traitors. It was the beginning of a seismic shift in American politics.
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Though few realized it at the time, Gingrich and his allies were on the cusp of a new wave of polarization rooted in growing public discontent, particularly among the Republican base. Gingrich didn’t create this polarization, but he was one of the first Republicans to exploit the shift in popular sentiment. And his leadership helped to establish “politics as warfare” as the GOP’s dominant strategy.
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Newt Gingrich Quotes in How Democracies Die
The How Democracies Die quotes below are all either spoken by Newt Gingrich or refer to Newt Gingrich. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 7
Quotes
In the early 1990s, Gingrich and his team distributed memos to Republican candidates instructing them to use certain negative words to describe Democrats, including pathetic, sick, bizarre, betray, antiflag, antifamily, and traitors. It was the beginning of a seismic shift in American politics.
[…]
Though few realized it at the time, Gingrich and his allies were on the cusp of a new wave of polarization rooted in growing public discontent, particularly among the Republican base. Gingrich didn’t create this polarization, but he was one of the first Republicans to exploit the shift in popular sentiment. And his leadership helped to establish “politics as warfare” as the GOP’s dominant strategy.
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