A new era of incivility in Congress brings 'The Birth of a Nation' full circle - The Washington Post

… the Republican Party began holding bipartisan comity in contempt decades ago. In the 1980s, when Newt Gingrich began asserting control over Republicans still chastened by the Watergate scandal, he famously advised them to stop apologizing and start going negative, treating politics like a cage match and turning opponents into enemies, never missing a chance to other-ize Democrats as "sick," "radical" and "un-American."…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/congress-incivility-recalls-racist-movie/2021/05/17/913833f6-b4b0-11eb-a980-a60af976ed44_story.html