It’s a bunch of half truths. The information isn’t so much wrong as it is incomplete.

@@Maestrohbill I lived through this era and you are right that all recounting of events has a bent to it. But I think this sounds accurate in the main

@@patrickreichert1442 The information is largely correct (except for the God, guns, gays line), but it's misleading. Yes, Gingrich was a partisan who fought bare knuckles - but so was Clinton. I would argue that a lot of what caused the partisanship is what Democrats did in the budget deals of both 1982 and 1990, where they agreed with the GOP administration on a mixed budget of tax increases and spending cuts, ran around the country blasting the Republicans for cutting spending - and nothing but defense ever got cut. Republicans (and Gingrich was there) decided at that point there was no good faith negotiating whatsoever. The rise of Speaker Jim Wright in the House, who was a shameless partisan and a sleaze to boot, escalated the conflict as did Gingrich when he destroyed both Wright and Tony Cohelo on ethics charges. To their credit, Tom Foley and Richard Gephardt were somewhat less partisan than Wright was - and Pres Bush 41 counted them as friends. This idea that we had these skirmish disagreements but liked each other and that Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh ruined all that is ludicrous on its face. That's not to absolve Newt for thinking he got elected Emperor, either. He absolutely did overplay his hand and didn't know when to finesse. He IS partially to blame for what we find ourselves in now. But let's not pretend things were hunky dory and then Newt and some imaginary connection between Newt and Trump, either.

Almost 30 years later, conservatives are still primarily driven by small-mindedness, bigotry, and ignorance.

@@riseagain845 bullshit. That was never true in the first place; it was just the left’s “since we need that 95% of the AA vote, let’s keep black people scared to death.” That being said - Trump isn’t a conservative and pretending there’s a connection to Reagan is ludicrous and to Gingrich is even a stretch.

Nah definitely not. The two parties still want to push their agenda

@@yw9113 Probably not? You crazy libertarians want political power for yourselves.

@@marcosjuarez7809 How tf did you come up with the idea that I'm a libertarian? 💀

@@yw9113 It’s because you sound like a libertarian.

I’d say that’s true for the democrats, the republicans clearly want the whole trifecta and everytime they get the chance they clearly use it to their full extent.

Totally -- which is why we're partnering with teachers to get this kind of content into the classroom. If you know any teachers send them our education link: www.retroreport.org/education/library/

LITERALLY

After newt Gingrich then came the TEA party republicans and they were no better.

1994 was my first year that I was legally allowed to vote. Not going to lie. I voted straight ticket republican. All but of 1 of my votes contributed to the candidates getting elected. The only one being PA state representative (democrat) Dan Surra, who got re-elected in a landslide. But Surra wasn’t your typical liberal democrat, either. Mainly because he opposed any form of gun control. In fact, he did such a fine job (and represented our district well) to the point that he ran unopposed (and got re-elected) in his next 2 elections.

Truly an evil man. There's no redeeming qualities about him. He's a hypocrite and a nimwit.

@AJ Shaw I didn’t say anything about why and how we got Newt Gingrich. I said his actions once he was elected as Speaker are to blame for the partisan environment we’re seeing.

Lol it takes 2 to tango. The Clintons were likable then and could do a mean tango.

@@chrisconley8583 huh?

@@rolandserna7805 saying Gingrich is to blame for something that happened 28 years ago is quite a stretch. Not mention the Clinton’s as part of the blame is pure ludicrous.

Define “lower propensity people”, Jim.

@@theQuestion626 mindless voters who only participate because everyone else is doing it

​@@residentevilfreakk55cry about it shit stain

​@@theQuestion626 Uneducated voters and retards.

He reminded the people that government was not accountable to it the way Bill Clinton was pretending to be a moderate for his first two years, and the “Contract with America” that made libs squeal was a way of checks and balances to his administration.

It was the rhetoric. And it wasn't just Gingrich: Bill Clinton repeatedly accused Gingrich and the Republicans of wanting to 'starve children' and 'kill old people' during the 1995 budget battle followed almost immediately by Ken Starr, Monica Lewinsky, the Impeachment, and of course the 2000 election which the Democrats believed George W. Bush stole. Both sides turned up the temperature during those years and then the post 9/11 disasters of Iraq and Lehman Brothers amped it up even more and now with cable news and social media the hyperpartisan divide has become institutionalized.

You don’t get it because it isn’t true. Gingrich was a standoffish partisan but this video mentions not one damn word about the Democratic counter-reaction of saying Bush was “selected not elected.” Trump is a cretin as was Newt but the connection is imaginary.

@@Maestrohbill Nor does it say anything about the $40 million ad campaign the AFL-CIO ran on Clinton's behalf during the fall and winter of 1995 accusing the Republicans of wanting to 'starve children'. Nor does the video mention Bill Clinton's ruthless exploitation of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing trying to pin the blame for it on Republican so called 'extremism'. Gingrich's attitude did the country no good but Bill Clinton did tons of damage to this country

@@erics7992 Yes, everything you said here is correct. Clinton actually blamed the OKC bombing on “right wing hate radio” and it was actually caused by a zealous over-reaction to Ruby Ridge and Waco (forget which President killed those kids…..) Gingrich was a partisan problem no doubt but pretending he caused this whole thing is scapegoating of the highest order.

Best way to bring about change is to start small. Start from local governments in your own town and state, then we will tackle the federal level

Thanks so much for you comment -- we really appreciate it!

Yep after 12 years of conservative rule in the WH.

Agreed. Now the time to save our country is beholden to us. It is the future we will decide for years to come. It is our responsibility to vote this November!!!

@Russ Ingram Nice excuse not to vote lol

@@royroy3 Probably much, just imagine where this country would’ve been had Ross Perot not dropped out because he was afraid of “sending the election to the house”.

Pshhh. Members of congress before the civil war would literally get into brawls on the floor of congress and being weapons lMao. This isn’t new in this broken republic.

Always has been.

There was a comment that remembered the 1960 election and how divisive it was. The assassination briefly United us but only for a bit

@@cruzloera4931 I would say it is even more divided than the time when Kennedy was murdered.

Oh, BS. There has always been rancor.

For that to happen, the Dems need to ditch toxicity and closed mindedness. They're the ones who refuse to compromise on anything and want everything done their way.

@@finchborat I've seen plenty of toxicity, closemindedness, and refusal to compromise from both sides.

@@ethancooke593 But there's wayyy more of it on the left than the right. If you want to see open mindedness discussed, ask a lefty. If you want to see open mindedness practiced, ask a conservative.

@@finchborat I've had plenty of interactions with both "leftys" and conservatives, and I'm telling you there isn't a difference. I don't know where this notion of yours came from, but it's part of the problem.

@@ethancooke593 This "notion" of mine is based on personal experience.

President don’t mean crap when Congress keep vetoing him

What about executive orders?

which was a lie.

@@jmjfansshow so?

​@@hardwoodthought1213see the story on the internet.

The two parties are similar, the mainstream of both are all neoliberals.

But, you might be one of those dull people that think Bill Clinton didn’t give republicans in the 90s every bill they asked for. NAFTA, Grammy-leach-blily etc

Unfortunately Aaron it is quite true that you don’t really have much choice in America’s political theater. The Republicans won the economic narrative as far back as 1979 with the advent of the freedman doctrine and all that free-market fantasy that still to this day is a staple of the Republican sales pitch regardless of the fact that historically the freedman doctrine and free-market ideology as well as policy has contributed horribly to the growing social economic divide in America. Of course you have the centrists and the Democratic Party they believe this rather naïve nonsense that they must compromise with the Republicans whose agenda has at least for the last 26 years been obstructionism and political demagoguery. It’s ironic really that Republicans demonize Democrats as some kind of national bogeyman won the centrist Democrats that have the majority within the Democratic Party are basically on board with the failed economic policies touted by the Republicans. So essentially…? No one has any choices in America. It is business as usual and that business as usual is at the rich get rich and the poor stay poor.

@@theQuestion626 Interestingly enough, I disagree with basically your entire comment, although it is cohesive and well written. The problem of inequality is a historically intractable one in any large or diverse nation. Also, the notion that the poor continue to get poorer is not born out by the standard of living available to those under the poverty line across time. There is research indicating that inequality leads to negative outcomes, but it is unclear what policy could alleviate this without even worse outcomes. I will agree with you that, until lately, a neo-liberal consensus of high government spending has been the main area of agreement among the two parties, but I disagree that this is because the Democratic Party is centrist in nature. Polling shows that the American electorate is highly unwilling to pay the taxes necessary to fund the type of safety-net touted by those such as Sen. Sanders. Polling indicates support for the policies themselves - but not the taxes that are necessary. Concerning the makeup of the Democratic Party, I would point out that there has been a mirrored rise in the democratic socialist wings of both the American Democrats and the British Labour Party over the last 10-15 years. President Biden has presided over historically high spending (President Trump was poor on the budget as well), and the US monetary policy has begun to turn into Modern Monetary Theory.

From what I gathered from the video Nancy Pelosi tearing up Trump's speech at the SOTU lead to January 6, at least that's what I gathered from the context of them placing the two together right at the end of the video for no reason

I suppose that I am what is called a 'social conservative' in the sense that I am virulently anti-abortion and I think the so called sexual revolution that occurred during the middle of the 20th century has laid waste to civilization by destroying the family structure. On the other hand I am very much to the left on economic matters and the social safety net and I am in no way a worshipper at the altar of what they call the 'free market' which in reality only exists on a blackboard in an economics class. And a lot of the legislation that was passed by Bill Clinton and the Republican congress from 1996-2000 was in the vein of 'free market' economic liberalism and ended up doing a LOT of economic damage to this country.

Thank you

Not much of the “old guard left” not sure what your talking about out. Pelosi, Biden, Schumer have been there forever.

Well I think a lot of Democrat voters are starting to wake up that centrist do nothings are not exactly the way to improve American society in the wake of failed Republican free market policy. People like Manchin, Sinema, Pelosi, Schumer and Biden represent the failures of centrism and guess what? Such failures plays right into the hands of Republicans whose entire agenda is putting in place the same social and economic policies that have failed time and time and time again. But what is worse is that we get failures like Donald Trump we’re basically rubber stamps for the like of McConnell. I don’t know where you’re getting this nonsense that Biden is some kind of as you say puppet of the imaginary new left I hate to break this to you he’s a centrist whose entire agenda is getting decimated by two centrist senators and an obstructionist Republican party. Please educate yourself on American anthropology as well as history. It might surprise you that America was actually more united at least on an economic scale when we had economic policy as well as strong unions you know those things that you might be fearful of as “Far Left”?

@@alwillk But they promote the New Left agenda. When I say that, I refer to the still-existing “old guard” as people like Joe Manchin.

I know I’m 3 months late here but you really need to pay attention to what Biden is and has been doing. Just about everything he passed through has been along bipartisan lines. He’s the most bipartisan president we’ve had in the 21 st century so far.

No the reason we have a Forward Party is cause Andrew Yang lost twice and needed a new income

But here’s the fascinating part. You actually have literal Nazis within the Republican Party. I don’t see any communists within the Democrats though. Kind of curious don’t you think?

@@theQuestion626 There is no literal nazi in the republican party -_-

www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjHuf3qtIv6AhVJADQIHahoCZUQFnoECAYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.azmirror.com%2F2021%2F09%2F23%2Fgop-officials-will-appear-alongside-white-nationalists-nazi-apologists-at-rally-to-support-insurrectionists%2F&usg=AOvVaw1L7K2TRUc0O31L4fMrwLSb Try again, Danny. Also you might want to lay off the emoji next time. It makes you seem insipid.

@Eric S I honestly thought Bill Clinton was an overrated president but his presidency was far more successful than 12 years of failed Republican presidents. Or are you not aware that the Reagan administration’s as well as George HW Bush was plagued with recessions and stagnation...?

@@theQuestion626 The economic statistics of the 1980s would argue against your point. The country suffered through the worst recession since the Great Depression during 1981-82 because the Fed jacked up interest rates to kill off the Nixon-Ford-Carter era inflation. But by 1984 the economy was booming which is of course why Ronald Reagan WON 49 STATES IN 1984. It is hard to fathom now but Ronald Reagan won New York, California, and Massachusetts twice. That is how universally popular he was. I don't agree with everything he did since a lot of the Republican worship of the so called 'free market' stems from that era but the people who were alive at the time certainly did not view the 1980s as a period of 'stagnation'.

@eric Corporatism is the legacy Reaganomics.

@@erics7992 honestly don’t know where you’re getting your data but I hate to break this to you… Volker was a Republican. And then Reagan was forced to raise taxes because funny thing… The inflation wasn’t going down. The 1984 economy was booming as you say? Where do you get this information…? The stock market was hitting highs but that was because shareholder value theory was the law of the land. Wages themselves were largely stagnated poverty was actually increasing and manufacturing was leaving American shores in droves. I often wonder what is America’s obsession with an imaginary “booming economy” that belies other more relevant economic data. The people who lived through the 1980s were more than willing to believe in the fantasies of the free market because it was a time of short term gains which would later be followed by long-term Larsons or are you not familiar with the stock market volatility and recessions that followed from 84 all the way to 91? Also we need to face the reality that Americans are not exactly the smartest of people. If you can give them even more pennies then they made before then they will believe that they are somehow magically doing better than they did before even though it comes at great expense and economic avenues that are far more important than they are aware of. Free-market ideology namely the Friedman doctrine contributed greatly to America’s Socio economic problems that led to the collapse in 2008.

@@alwillk corporatism existed since the gilded age long before Reaganomics.

No 1994 was when Democrats got too big for thier britches and got the losses they deserved. Thing was Gingrich was power hungry. He was no better than the Democrats that were beaten

Were AAs still voting GOP?

@@Michael1966W and in 2010, 2014 and this November, the dems are gonna get what's coming to them.

There is no Southern strategy. It never existed except in the minds of some liberal historians who wanted an excuse as to why liberals kept getting beat. “They played race cards” feels better to some than “they rejected us.”

Bruh what

THAT IS TRULY DISGUSTING….that POS helped DESTROY THIS COUNTRY…who do you think is partially responsible (along with that domestic terrorist we were forced to call the President obama) for the housing market crash and subsequent recession in ‘07-‘08? CLINTON. He didn’t do a goddamn thing for this country! The fact that you would WILLINGLY ELECT A P DOE FILE FOR PRESIDENT IS F’ing DISGUSTING. I truly hope you’re not old enough to vote because the only people STUPID ENOUGH to believe he was a “good president” where people who DIDN’T HAVE TO SUFFER THROUGH IT.

​@@ProudBostonianthank you, slick willy and neocon RINO bush.

George Washington warned that political parties would divide Americans.

So what exactly was American conservatism reacting to…?

@@theQuestion626 Ostensibly, gun control and the 'homosexual agenda'. More accurately, the 'new Democrats' shifting towards the center combined with Perot attacking them fiscally from the right threatened their deep-seated belief that they were the natural governing party, and caused them to hyperbolically label every Democratic policy as 'socialist' in order to get their voters in a fearful frenzy. Democrats went into their own hyperbole in response, and both sides dug into echo chambers where they're always right and the opposition is always wrong/evil.

@@theQuestion626 idk maybe if the video explained that we would know. I mean objectively the video provided zero background beyond "Bill Clinton won"

Maybe the liberals could not give the American people reasons to be mad and the madness would stop? 🤔

@@arananation Troll.

​@@arananation job

@@arananation what reasons?

Yeah, no. I'd much prefer the dem party of the '90s, and '00s. As least they weren't as far left as they are now.

OK care to elaborate how with data?

@@tryxoso2015 He is just a Republican who is angry that his party is the reason we are divided

@@Anarcho-Stupidity yeah really Who is in power now? Democrats or republicans Quit blaming republicans for everything

yeah it was just shitting on republicans

sure.

Partisan rant.

Or Newt

it has nothing to do with "partisanship" and everything to do with dangerous conservative policies that were allowed to pass

@@ozarkharshnoisescenelike what?

@@vincentgiasullo roe being overturned, laws targeting the queer community, etc

@@ozarkharshnoisescene roe was terrible, and what policies target the queer community are you talking about?

@@vincentgiasullo repealing roe opened up the ability for states to force people to carry miscarriages to term and endure ectopic pregnancies which is extremely dangerous. Abortions are a vital piece of healthcare that saves lives. Also have you seen what desantis is doing in Florida? A part of me thinks you aren't coming to this discussion in a place of good faith.

From the democraps

​@@iloveTrump45 warra job

You'll warn the Clinton administration of themselves?? LOL because you'd have to go back way farther than that to fix the problems that we have today.

The moment that Clinton decided to fold and not to fight Newt it was all over, the stage had been set for 2010 and the Republican realisation that they could win more by fighting and not by negotiating

Yeah, if only the Democrats controlled both Houses of Congress and the Presidency from 1993 onward... there wouldn't be any problems today.

Clinton sucked. He gave the republicans almost every bill they asked for.

Nah, we have a 6-3 conservative majority on the court, Roe v Wade is dead and the 2nd amendment is solidified. Trust me, I’ll take that over your points

Favorite president being Bill Clinton is a definite red flag

My favorite too! Blue all the way.

@@alwillkgood

Laudetur Iesus Christus.

@@jaydeepgodbole130 I don't know how to tell you that you should care about other people. Better things are necessary and possible, and change is inevitable.

I agree the Democrats are destroying our democracy and manipulating minorities to maintain power. Great point there my friend 👍

Do you see the irony in your comment

This country has never been a democracy... it's a Republic and always has been.

@@karmaplushie4007 A republic is a type of democracy. That talking point oly exists so that authoritarians can seize and consolidate power without the will of the people

You can dream. Rs will probably just get the house and it’s not going to be some blowout

No it won't. Republicans have no movement to win behind.

@@jakep9610 It will happen for 1. you have parents that are very mad at the government for having teachers Union that want to teach critical race theory 2. You have allies that don't like us because we left Afghanistan also along with the 13 soldiers that were killed on August 26. 3 we had record high inflation. 4. The new green deal would cause this country to go broke. 5. Having the worst president ever since Jimmy Carter. 6. And having a lot of people that are upset because of this president that wants to give student loan forgiveness we'll cause students to pay higher income taxes when they get a job.

@@williamdiemert9866 God I know you that read nothing but “conservative brief” and Alex Jones you’re brainwashed

@@williamdiemert9866 oh shut up democrats are coming we are going to steal your guns and turn everyone gay watch out America will become a poc nation !! 🙄