Gingrich Warns Of ‘Very Dangerous’ Consequences as Dems Attack Trump
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has issued a stark warning, stating that the Democrats' "very dangerous" rhetoric and actions could potentially lead to something "serious" against former President Donald Trump.
Speaking on Fox News, Gingrich pushed back against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' assertion that Republicans are "on the run," instead claiming that Democrats are consumed by rage and are presenting "no solutions."
According to Gingrich, the left is employing extreme measures to resist Trump and counter Elon Musk's initiatives to reduce government spending.
"Well, 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," Gingrich stated.
"Period. And at some point, people begin to realize that you can’t 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’s 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," he added.
Reflecting on recent events, Gingrich remarked, "What I saw the other night … the House Democrats were sort of zombie Democrats. They couldn’t applaud anything. They couldn’t applaud the president. They couldn’t applaud a 13-year-old cancer survivor. They couldn’t applaud a young man who wanted to go to West Point. They couldn’t 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’s their leader."
"What’s 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’ll just give you one piece of data. Our America’s New Majority project just had a poll come out yesterday. 82% of the American people believe the system is corrupt. Now that’s 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’re going to have a big mountain to climb come 2026," Gingrich continued.
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Meanwhile, CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein has observed that the Democratic Party is in its weakest state since the 1980s, as party leaders struggle to chart a path forward.
"If you talk to Democrats, you know, they recognize they are in a hole. I mean, the image of the party is probably in a weaker position than at any point since I think the 1980s, the Reagan and George H.W. Bush era," Brownstein commented in a conversation with CNN’s Audie Cornish.
"But if you ask Democrats how they think they are going to come back, there is a debate about, you know, within the party, do you fight on every front or do you focus on the economic issues? And I think most Democrats believe their best chance of kind of getting a second look from the public in 2025 is this debate over the budget," Brownstein suggested.
The discussion touched on the federal government funding deadline approaching on Friday, with Cornish noting that Republican lawmakers are looking for ways to balance tax cuts within the federal budget and suggesting that Medicaid "could be a likely target."
For weeks, Trump, the White House, and Republicans have consistently denied that the GOP's proposed bill includes any reductions to Medicare and Medicaid.
Brownstein speculated that the Democratic Party might use claims that the GOP intends to cut Medicaid to fund tax breaks for the wealthy as a key argument in budget debates, potentially making it a central strategy for 2025.