Newt Gingrich Explains Trump's Historic Victory and the Profound Realignment of American Politics

[00:00] I'm going to read you a text message

[00:01] here of our next guest I sent on

[00:04] Monday do you think we are going to win

[00:07] n gingr replies yes joining us now is

[00:10] Speaker Gingrich Mr Speaker what a time

[00:13] to be alive you saw this thing coming uh

[00:15] can you please frame this in historical

[00:19] proportions for our audience sure me

[00:22] what what you saw was an amazing coming

[00:25] together of two different realities one

[00:27] was that the Democrats both on

[00:30] performance and on policy and values had

[00:33] failed and the country knew it uh on the

[00:36] other side you had a candidate who had

[00:38] spent nine years had endured being shot

[00:42] had endured being assaulted in every way

[00:44] you could by the left had endured being

[00:47] lied by the media uh and was still

[00:50] standing and so the country said you

[00:52] know in a dangerous world do I who do I

[00:55] want to have as commander-in-chief and

[00:58] partly Cala Harris this you know sort of

[01:00] disadvantaged herself because she was so

[01:02] shallow and so incompetent and so

[01:05] incapable of you know explaining

[01:07] anything on the other hand I think

[01:10] people gradually came to conclude that

[01:13] Trump had been a pretty darn good

[01:15] president things had been a lot better

[01:17] they could afford uh more gasoline more

[01:20] groceries they didn't have neighborhoods

[01:23] that were dominated by Venezuelan street

[01:25] gangs and so there was a gradual shift

[01:28] all through October towards Trump which

[01:31] frankly a number of us expected I

[01:33] remember at the convention uh back in

[01:36] Milwaukee uh talking with Chris lovita

[01:39] and uh we were're just comparing notes

[01:42] about campaigns we'd been in and we both

[01:44] thought you know we're going to win this

[01:46] thing because both on performance and on

[01:49] values the country is going to

[01:51] ultimately repudiate Now The Big Break

[01:54] which you were a part of I mean let's be

[01:55] clear the work you did and I remember

[01:57] actually being with you at the

[01:59] convention uh and being on your program

[02:02] the work you did at the Grassroots the

[02:03] people you turned out the young people

[02:06] you engaged with debates that was a big

[02:08] piece of this the really big deal here

[02:11] not only did Trump win but he carried a

[02:14] majority of the American people the

[02:17] reason that matters is you get a you get

[02:19] a moral Authority the American people

[02:22] will say okay he really is the president

[02:25] of the American people and if you'll

[02:27] notice the left has been much less frent

[02:30] since election day much more confused

[02:33] because I think he didn't just win you

[02:36] know a plurality of the vote in the

[02:38] Electoral College he won the whole

[02:43] thing dare I say it was a clean Victory

[02:46] they we got it on Election night Mr

[02:49] Speaker I mean on Election night we knew

[02:51] our winner I mean not even in 2020 it

[02:54] took us four or five days and so so let

[02:59] me let me ask you Mr Speaker as we as we

[03:02] analyze this phenomenon the the the

[03:04] Trump movement better with black

[03:06] Americans Hispanic Americans Young

[03:09] Americans sweeping the Rust Belt almost

[03:11] every County going substantially to the

[03:14] right president Trump defied entrenched

[03:19] some entrenched GOP Orthodoxy on major

[03:22] issues specifically immigration and also

[03:25] trade can you talk about the realignment

[03:28] that we've occurred Donald Trump won the

[03:30] most Hispanic County in America star

[03:33] County 98% Hispanic

[03:37] County well when you think about all

[03:40] these har Harvard and Yale elitists uh

[03:43] what what uh in a brilliant analysis

[03:46] Scott rson called the 1% the elite 1%

[03:50] and their vision of the world what

[03:53] you're seeing and this is why you get

[03:54] the never trumpers what you're seeing is

[03:57] a profound breakup of the old Republican

[04:00] party you the people who were really

[04:04] establishment uh but also Republican are

[04:07] totally repudiated by the rise of a

[04:10] genuinely populist Conservative

[04:13] Republican party and that's why you see

[04:15] some of the bitter anger you know the

[04:17] Liz Cheney types because their world is

[04:20] going it's dying uh you have you know

[04:23] the the really hard left in the

[04:25] Democratic party and you have a new

[04:28] emerging populist party now this really

[04:31] goes all the way back to Goldwater goes

[04:33] back to Reagan's amazing speech in 19 uh

[04:37] 68 the time for choosing which I or 64

[04:40] rather which you can get on YouTube if

[04:42] you've never seen it it's worth it uh

[04:45] then the rise of Reagan then we came

[04:46] along with the contract then the Tea

[04:48] Party Movement picked it up and Trump

[04:51] came to

[04:53] personify again this is a billionaire

[04:56] this this is not some you know local uh

[04:59] guy in a blue collar outfit um this is a

[05:02] genuine billionaire but whose

[05:06] instinct is to take on the establishment

[05:09] and as a result every day working

[05:11] Americans rallied to him because

[05:14] candidly they'd all been ripped off by

[05:16] by The Establishment The Establishment

[05:18] sold them out uh to build factories in

[05:20] China and Mexico The Establishment sold

[05:23] them out with radical values The

[05:26] Establishment sold them out by allowing

[05:28] the border to be open and Venezuelan and

[05:31] El Salvador gangs to be committing

[05:33] crimes some of which are horrible a

[05:36] 5-year-old raped in Long Island for

[05:38] example I mean these things aren't made

[05:39] up these aren't scare stories these are

[05:42] news right these are real things so what

[05:44] happened is people have common sense

[05:47] looked around and said that ain't

[05:48] working that's not that's not a future I

[05:50] want for my family uh and Donald Trump

[05:53] was there and then I think it in a way

[05:55] that that nobody on the left could

[05:58] understand I kept saying this for three

[06:00] years when you have the champion of a

[06:04] movement they're not a candidate

[06:06] candidates are different animals kamla

[06:09] was a candidate she had no movement

[06:11] Donald Trump when your Champion is

[06:14] attacked you move towards them you want

[06:17] to protect them you want to prop them up

[06:20] so where if it's a candidate you might

[06:22] go g I'm not sure but if it's your

[06:24] Champion you are sure and that's why

[06:27] every time the left cheated every every

[06:29] time from Russia Russia to the FBI to

[06:32] the investigations to the two phony

[06:35] impeachments to the phony lawfare uh to

[06:39] to being shot I mean every time people

[06:43] his support grew as people said wait a

[06:46] second uh if they fear him that much

[06:49] maybe he's my

[06:52] guy uh speaker Mr Speaker can you talk

[06:55] about how Donald Trump gave people

[06:57] something to vote for it was n just uh

[07:01] that he was running against but it was

[07:03] something to vote for minute and a half

[07:05] remaining please well first of all he

[07:07] did 47 videos outlining a series of

[07:11] specific policies second he put together

[07:14] a very clean almost like contract with

[07:16] America a platform of 20 Big Ideas third

[07:20] in every rally he talked about

[07:22] principled ideas stopping inflation

[07:25] creating economic growth controlling the

[07:28] Border Etc I mean so if you look at who

[07:30] talked policy it was Donald J Trump and

[07:34] the result was people said you know and

[07:36] you got this all over and over again

[07:37] from focus groups people who'd say she's

[07:40] just babbling she she won't tell you

[07:42] what she really believes you can't trust

[07:44] her and then they would say about Trump

[07:46] I don't always like what he does but I

[07:48] love what he stands for I love his

[07:51] policies and I'm with him and that got

[07:53] bigger and bigger in October and you

[07:55] could really feel the momentum as people

[07:57] thought about it and they moved too

[08:02] Mr Speaker we have you uh for another

[08:04] segment here and it's just the historic

[08:06] proportion here is just remarkable

[08:08] blacks Hispanics young voters across the

[08:11] board and Mr Speaker at the RNC

[08:14] convention I remember we turned to each

[08:15] other and we almost got teised because

[08:17] that was three days after president

[08:19] Trump got shot and I just I can't help

[08:22] but say that it was the hand of God on

[08:24] this movement can you comment on that

[08:26] very quickly in one minute Mr Speaker

[08:28] look look look I I felt

[08:29] very strongly I was there that Saturday

[08:31] and went over and did Fox and I was on

[08:34] with Sean and I said you know I think

[08:37] this is providential I mean if he had

[08:39] not moved his head turning you know away

[08:42] from looking at that board back if he

[08:44] had not moved his head at exactly that

[08:47] second the bullet would have entered his

[08:49] brain and killed him now that's

[08:51] providential and I think he feels that

[08:53] way much like Reagan remember both

[08:56] Reagan and Pope John Paul II had been

[08:59] shot and when they got together for the

[09:01] first time they compared their thoughts

[09:03] about being shot and God sparing them

[09:06] and they decided that God had spared

[09:07] them to defeat the Soviet Empire I think

[09:10] that Trump was deeply affected by being

[09:12] shot I think he believes that God gave

[09:15] him a purpose which was to save America

[09:17] and I think he's a better man for how he

[09:20] has responded to that experience