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JDinTX's avatar

From before he was “elected,” but when Rupert signed on, it was Goebbels all the way. Of course, the tea party set the stage with Palin, and 2000 was great practice for hoodwinking the Dems.

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Barbara Mullen's avatar

You can also go back even further to Newt Gingrich with his "trumpian rhetoric" he introduced into politics. I remember thinking at the time "Who is this? He is an awful person." Then we had Reagan. This has been percolating for decades.

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Gailee Walker Wells's avatar

He was so delilberate in tearing down the civility between each side of the aisle.

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Frankom's avatar

When the Palin ticket lost I thought Republicans learned a lesson about offering off the wall candidates.

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