@ucantstop_me The "Republican Revolution" in 1994, courtesy of Newt Gingrich and friends, is what happened. Win at all costs, party over country, cooperative governance is a dead doctrine, etc. Combined with the launch of Fox News in 1996, the so-called "Falwell Tapes" that circulated at white nationalist events, etc. Unity is only for conservatives to attack liberals, cf. 9/11 and Iraq, "hating freedom", and the like.