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President. newt gingrich. >> once the democrats was back in if white house, newt gingrich became leader of the opposition. >> we are going to change their world, theyll do anything to stop us. >> gingrich pioneered the fight club mentality that would eventually consume the gop. >> gingrich understood that his voters did not care about winning, winning policy fights. what they cared about was fighting. >> mr. begigingrich will whispe your right ear and i will whisper on his left. >> boosting ging...

His domestic policy. >> he didnt cut spending, and he ended up, as you know, exploding the debt and the deficit. >> there he is. >> the reagan revolution turned out to be more rhetoric than reality. the great society state, panded >> when reagan left office, conservatives became more ready for a story of betrayal. >> the right longed for a fighter. and reagans successor, the elite yale educated george bush did not fit the bill. conservatives felt betrayed one more time. now they found their new ...

Went mainstream. today the republican party leaders have encouraged many of its supporters worst fears and fantasies. this is the story of how conspiracy theories and theorists move from the fringe of the republican party smacked down to its center. >> it begins in the 1950s. the early years of the cold war. americans felt the enemy was winning. >> america was so strong and so powerful and rich. yet, many thing in the world did not go americas way. >> joseph mccarthy electrify the

Gingrich. >> i am a genuine revolutionary. >> once a democrat was back in the white house, newt gingrich became leader of the opposition. >> he wins control of congress with rage, resentment, culture war and betrayal. >> we will change their world. they will do anything to stop us. >> gingrich pioneered the fight club mentality that would eventually consume the gop. >> gingrich understood that his voters didnt care about winning. they didnt care about winning policy fights. what they cared about...

Scandal consumed the nux son presidency. it would be 1980 before conservatives found a new hero. ronald reagan was goldwater reincarnated, only better looking and smoother talking. >> i think george will put it well that barry goldwater actually won. it just took them 16 years to count the votes. >> while reagan took the goldwater message but he put a sunnier face on it. >> some lights seem eternal. americas is. >> he had a sense of real triumph, that american society was going to change in some...

You know it. >> it is hard to imagine barry goldwater getting the nomination in 1964 without the john birch society. >> but he had been urged by establishment republicans to denounce the conspiracy theories. unlike today, republican leaders felt morally obligated to call out what they knew were lies. goldwater called out welsh himself, but was critical in his criticism of the notice. >> im far more fearful about the radical members of the left than the birch society. >> this was the beginning of...

Good-bye. >> the watergate scandal consumed the nixon presidency. it would be 1980 before conservatives found a new hero. ronald reagan was goldwater reen c goldgoldw goldwater reincarnated. ronald reagan toke the goldwater message. >> hes at the sense of real triumph that america is going to change its fundamental ways. >> he was and is a republican icon for defeating the soviet union. >> but once again, a conservative darling shocked the

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