Opinion: Joe Biden is wrong about the GOP — but in the right way
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Saturday in Columbia, S.C. By Max Boot Max Boot Columnist covering national security Email Bio Follow Columnist May 6 at 5:44 PM Joe Biden stands out from other Democratic candidates not just by taking on President Trump directly but also by seeking to separate Trump from the rest of the Republican Party.
Trump’s poisonous invective — he accuses his critics of “TREASONOUS” acts and calls the press “the enemy of the people” — is rooted in the tactics pioneered by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In 1978, Gingrich said, “I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty.
Even Trump’s irrationalism and conspiracy-mongering have deep Republican roots, dating back to Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society in the 1950s. Climate-change denialism had become a party litmus test by the time Trump said in 2012 that global warming was a made-in-China hoax.
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