Why did this have to happen in my lifetime? I would rather it never have happened at all, but couldn’t I just have gone through life under a saner America?

In the 1990's, Newt Gingrich ushered in the era of never acting in a bipartisan manner, view Democrats as your enemy, not your opponent, be as hypocritical as you want, and boldly tell lies that will be repeated in rightwing echo chamber.

And underneath it all, an undercurrent of creeping Christian Nationalism bolstering its credibility in the shadows….