![]() Bush administration had left much of Black New Orleans to drown in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sound familiar? The racist terror came just five years after the George W. ![]() Capitol Police led all three men to safety from the mob” (Milbank, The Destructionists, p.136). ‘Nig-ger!’ Fifteen times…Another Black Democrat, Representative Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, was walking to the House chamber when one of the Tea Party demonstrators spat on him. “Thousands of demonstrators with the Tea Party movement, a conservative backlash against Obama born in 2009, had descended on Washington to protest the Affordable Health Care Act- Obamacare…A clump of them formed a gauntlet around Lewis and Carson. ![]() In one of many sordid stories of pre-Trump Republican evil that one can read in The Destructionists, Milbank tells the tale of what Black Congressmen John Lewis and Andre Carson faced as they walked from their Washington offices to the US House floor one day early in the Obama administration: Going back to the rise of Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1994, Milbank reminds us that Republicans undermined elections, suppressed votes, gerrymandered districts, embraced conspiracy theories, and made common cause with eliminationist white supremacism and militia movements long before America vomited the orange-hued monster Trump on to center stage.Ī Racist Mob Surrounding Black Congressmen The Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank’s new book The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack Up of the Republican Party (New York: DoubleDay, 2022) shows that we cannot properly grasp the horror of Donald Trump and Trumpism without understanding the last quarter-century of Republican Party degeneration
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