Newt Gingrich’s 1996 GOPAC memo
This has been available online for a while, but I just recently found it: Language: A Key Mechanism of Control: Newt Gingrich’s 1996 GOPAC memo. In retrospect it is clear how the GOP’s rhetorical strategy and their discipline in using it was a major part of their surge of power and control through the last ten years or so.
Their regime is imploding now, but the Democrats still haven’t shown up…