"Responsible for Turning Congress Into a Place Where Partisan Allegiance Is Prized Above All Else"

"But few figures in modern history have done more than Gingrich to lay the groundwork for Trump's rise. During his two decades in Congress, he pioneered a style of partisan combat—replete with name-calling, conspiracy theories, and strategic obstructionism—that poisoned America's political culture and plunged Washington into permanent dysfunction. Gingrich's career can perhaps be best understood as a grand exercise in devolution—an effort to strip American politics of the civilizing traits it had developed over time and return it to its most primal essence."

McKay Coppins at The Atlantic calls Newt Gingrich, "The Man Who Broke Politics."