Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is warning that Democrats\u2019 \u201cvery dangerous\u201d rhetoric and behavior could lead to something \u201cserious\u201d against President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
During an interview on Fox News, Gingrich dismissed a claim by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., that Republicans are \u201con the run,\u201d warning that Democrats are in a rage and offering \u201cno solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gingrich said the left is resorting to extreme tactics to resist Trump and oppose Elon Musk\u2019s efforts to cut government spending.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I think that everything you showed earlier reflects what Lincoln said at Gettysburg when he said, this is a test of whether this system or any system so conceived in liberty can survive. You have a hard-line group who believe that they have the right to be violent, that they have the right to deny the American people the choice of their leadership, that they have the right to break the law. The answer to all of that is, frankly, you have to lock them up. You have to enforce the law,\u201d Gingrich began.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeriod. And at some point, people begin to realize that you can\u2019t wage war against the entire American people. And in that sense, I would argue that Elon Musk is simply one of the people serving the American people. He\u2019s a senior advisor to the president of the United States. And I think that, in that sense, all of this is totally unacceptable, as is harassing a Supreme Court justice or harassing the vice president and his three-year-old,\u201d Gingrich added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I saw the other night \u2026 the House Democrats were sort of zombie Democrats. They couldn\u2019t applaud anything. They couldn\u2019t applaud the president. They couldn\u2019t applaud a 13-year-old cancer survivor. They couldn\u2019t applaud a young man who wanted to go to West Point. They couldn\u2019t applaud people who were there who had lost loved ones. It was pretty bizarre. And I think that, you know, Hakeem Jeffries may think he has to say these things. He\u2019s their leader,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s he going to say? But the fact is, the Democrats currently have no solutions. They are so enraged that Trump is actually changing what, overwhelmingly, Americans believe is a corrupt system. I\u2019ll just give you one piece of data. Our America\u2019s New Majority project just had a poll come out yesterday. 82% of the American people believe the system is corrupt. Now that\u2019s dangerous. Both for the survival of freedom. But also it tells you the fact that the Democrats, who want to defend the bureaucracy and the corruption and the waste, they\u2019re going to have a big mountain to climb come 2026,\u201d Gingrich continued.<\/p>\n
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