But that was my point. The civility, bipartisanship, and respect has disappeared from American politics post-1994/5ish. And that truly began with Gingrich. And if you hear the man talk today, he seems to relish watching all this chaos, watching America’s political institutions fall apart, watching the insanity of a reality tv president “ruling” by tweet, race riots, and mass civil unrest unfold.
Joe Biden, for almost his entire political career was about as moderate/centre as it gets, but the loons out left have taken over and if he doesn’t listen to them, he’s a racist and a segregationist who should be cancelled. You are right, the DNC has no real leadership, and those that are there are utterly spineless.
Moderate conservatives, and reasonable conservative news figures like Wallace and Smith at Fox, get lambasted and attacked by the president and his supporters daily for even the slightest differences of opinion. Any conservatives who disagree with Trump are “deep state” actors and part of the “swamp”. The RNC has decided it’s okay to give Trump all the keys and be sycophantic toadies for him, so long as he appoints their judges, they will stomach anything from his admin