he certainly did more to destroy collegiality/comity in the house, but when you look at the right-wing drive to concentrate control a lot of it goes back to Reagan anyway, two prime pieces of shit and don't get me started on NIxon!

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   To understand the death of American political comity, look at the bridge between Reagan and Gingrich. Reagan established the right-wing drive to centralize control, but Gingrich, with the help of the new Fox News, and Rush Limbaugh, took that ideological framework and turned it into an all-out cultural assault on America. He didn’t just break congressional precedent—he broke the nation’s capacity for shared truth. By replacing collegiality with systemic hostility, he ensured that polarization …