Francis Wilkinson, Columnist

Republican Party Burns Down One Last Institution: Itself

This was bound to happen eventually.

August 3, 2016 at 6:34 PM UTC

Francis Wilkinson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US politics and policy. Previously, he was executive editor for the Week and a writer for Rolling Stone.

The pre-Trump delegitimization movement.
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There used to be some exceptions to the Republican Party's war on American institutions.

The party began aggressively attacking the news media and the academy in the era of Nixon-Agnew, undermining confidence in the validity of news reports and the integrity of journalists, while condemning the pernicious ideological influence of university professors.