I want to get your reaction to some of the comments that have been made as of this morning from Republicans about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. His years covering Washington provided what he describes as a front-row seat for the worst show on earth - the crackup of the Republican Party and the resulting crackup of American democracy.ĭana Milbank, welcome back to FRESH AIR. Milbank has been a political columnist at The Post for the past 17 years. That led to becoming the White House correspondent for The Washington Post and covering George W. During the early months of that revolution, Milbank came to Washington, D.C., to cover Congress for The Wall Street Journal, and then he covered Bill Clinton's presidency and his impeachment for The New Republic. It was known as the Republican Revolution. He begins in 1994 with Newt Gingrich, then a Republican congressman from Georgia, leading his party to a landslide victory in the midterms with Republicans taking over the House and the Senate. Milbank's book looks back over the past 25 years, tracing the roots of today's political lies and conspiracy theories.

are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child-sex trafficking operation,' unquote. In May of 2021, a poll by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 23% of Republicans agree that, quote, 'the government, media and financial worlds in the U.S. His attempts to declare himself the winner led to the insurrection. One of Trump's major lies backed by conspiracy theories is that the 2020 election was stolen. Some members of Congress and some of this year's Republican primary winners are election deniers that subscribe to conspiracy theories. In his new book, 'The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five-Year Crack-Up Of The Republican Party,' my guest, Dana Milbank, writes about how we got to where we are today.

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