Dana Milbank’s amazing history ‘The Destructionists’ charts the evolution of the Republican Party over the last 25 years. Milbank makes the connections showing how the party of Lincoln. Reagan has transformed into a sanctuary for authoritarianism, conspiracy theories, and white supremacists, from the Contract with America to the January 6, 2021, Capitol invasion. This shocking tale reveals the extent the Republican Party has gone to hold onto power via the careers of Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell, and others.