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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Charles Kaiser

The Destructionists review: brilliant study of Republican rage pre-Trump

Newt Gingrich greets Donald Trump in Cincinnati, Ohio in July 2016.
Newt Gingrich greets Donald Trump in Cincinnati, Ohio, in July 2016. Photograph: Aaron P Bernstein/Reuters

After Joe Biden’s fiery speech in defense of democracy last week, most of the Washington press corps responded with another stream of fatuous false equivalencies.

“The Two Parties Finally Agree on Something: American Democracy Is in Danger”, was the headline in the New York Times. A Washington Post editorial declared the president was “wrong to conflate upholding the rule of law with his own partisan agenda, which he called ‘the work of democracy’”.

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