Newt Gingrich on Fox News Channel's The Ingraham Angle | March 5, 2021

NEWT:

I think it ends with a huge repudiation. I think you know you've got to go back home as a Democrat and defend censoring Dr. Seuss while protecting a fence around your own Capitol. You've got a bigger and bigger burden to carry, and Nancy Pelosi has been piling devastatingly bad votes on her members. I think it's almost like they have concluded they are going to lose control so they have got to get it all done in the first two years because they will lose the House by a big margin in 2010. I mean, 2022, which they did lose in 2010. I think the real challenge here, and you're picking up on some of the weirdest stories that are out there that aren't political, we have, you know, so-called education people saying, oh, at three months, the baby is already racist. You've an entire class of people who by any reasonable standard are crazy. And if you look at what the National Education Association, the largest teacher's union recommends to replace Dr. Seuss, you know, the prince who liked to cross dress at night, that's literally one of the stories, and you have to think, how does this fit with the average American vision? Dr. Seuss last year sold six million copies last year alone. Has sold, I think, 600 million worldwide.

NEWT:

Sure. They’re probably called bigots, but that's what the reaction will be against. I think what you're seeing is an absolute breakdown of the American people's belief that government is on their side. I think it's partly because of COVID, because of shutdowns, because of, you know, as you yourself pointed out, when your government is so afraid of you that it has to put up razor wire, and turn Washington, D.C. into downtown Baghdad there is something profoundly sick going on. Now I'm an optimist. I think the American people are going to rebel and next year's election will be a disaster for the liberals. Because I don't think they can go home and defend any of this. But I admit I’m an optimist. In 1994, two years after Bill Clinton won, we got 54 seats in, 2010, two years after Obama won, we got 53 seats. Any one of those would guarantee the end of all of the radical ideas for the rest of the Biden administration. So, I think it's important for people to be tough right now, speak out right now, I think, for example, a lot of the stuff they are going to grind through the House will never get through the Senate. And I think if we go to work, we could have a remarkable election next year.