The article's subtitle asks "How did the GOP become a haven for slogans and ideas straight out of the Third Reich?" When the question is framed that way, the answer becomes crisply obvious: Everyone who remembers 1945 has died.

Hitler was the ultimate zionist so it kind of makes perfect sense.

problem? I thought it was their final solution

dodges tomato

The article places Newt Gingrich in this timeline

    Newt Gingrich of Georgia carried Buchanan’s culture
    war into the House speakership. For Gingrich, politics
    was solely about winning; his scorched-earth approach
    treated opponents as enemies and compromise as treason.

    He wanted votes, and wasn’t concerned about who was
    animated by his viciousness.

This aligns with my understanding. Which is that Gingrich mainstreamed the practice of crafting malicious animosity about political opponents and then sowing that enmity throughout as much of the electorate as possible.

Some years back. Zoe Chase did an extraordinarily good story about it. It's part of a TAL episode. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/662/transcript

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