Newt Gingrich - Beyond Biden: Rebuilding the America We Love

B eyond Biden was written in the spirit of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who told students at Harrow School, his alma mater, on October 29, 1941, Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Churchill articulated better than I could my reaction to the outrageous, one-sided, establishment takeover of the 2020 election.

Standing with my wife, Callista, in the White House on election night, we decided that we must look forward. We must learn the lessons of the immediate past, develop new and better strategies, and work with the American people to create a better future. We had to do this despite the temporary damage that would be caused by the radical left in all its forms: the oligarchs of internet censorship and propaganda, the false news media, crazed Hollywood entertainers, ultra-woke college professors, the corrupt teachers unions, and the left-wing bureaucrats who suffered four years under President Donald Trump and now had a chance to reimpose their collective will on Americans.

After observing the first year of Joe Bidens presidency, I am convinced the 2020 election was a detour, and not a turning point.

America has been through many cycles of challenge and response. No matter how long the odds, no matter how intense the opposition, Americans have always found a way to fight back, to become more creative, to respond to challenges, and to win.

So, I decided to focus my energy and attention on the time beyond Biden. If we do our jobs, that time could be an era in which the radical left will have destroyed itself, and a new, positive, problem-solving, and opportunity-creating system supported by an American majority could create several generations of prosperity, safety, and American revival.

As I thought and observed more, I felt compelled to write Beyond Biden.

Too many of my conservative friends were depressed and in despair about Americas future. Seeing Biden leave his basement and be sworn in as president of the United States had emboldened every deranged left-wing radical to come from hiding and begin demanding that the government impose profoundly destructive values and ideas on Americans.

Many Republicans and conservatives were too tied up in the presidential election to notice that Kevin McCarthys leadership in the U.S. House of Representativescombined with unusually strong turnout for President Trump in key districtshad led to a gain of fifteen seats. Before the election, virtually every supposed expert thought Republicans would lose more than a dozen seats. This left Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the narrowest majority since the 106th Congress in 2000. In the U.S. Senate, we fought to a tie. If it had not been for confused, self-defeating, and poorly run efforts by Republicans in Georgia, we would have had a 52 to 48 majority in the Senate.

When it came to controlling governorships, we had gained one and held a 27 to 23 majority across the nation. Republican-led states were doing far better economically and in health outcomes than the Democrat-run states were. Furthermore, Republican legislatures and governors were pushing back on radical, unpopular programsand making their states more conservative despite Bidens and the national Democrats best efforts.

Among state legislatures, there were 4,009 Republican legislators after the 2020 elections vs. 3,317 Democrats. In fact, Republican control of legislative chambers went up to 61 majorities compared with 37 Democrat chambers (Alaska has a unique multiparty sharing system, so it is not counted). With Republicans representing 54.3 percent of all state legislators and Democrats representing only 44.93 percent, it is hard to see why the left-wing media thinks Republicans have electoral problems.

Republicans can look to the future confident that their party has a much broader appeal in the country at large. The lefts power and influence is restricted to Washington, D.C., New York, and Los Angeles, where media centers prop up their morale with misleading and slanted reporting and analysis.

Further, as radical activists grow bolder and more open, their positions become more unpopular. We are already seeing a rejection of Critical Race Theory as more people realize it is primarily divisive. The mayor of Chicago refusing to be interviewed by white reporters is so blatantly racist it is starting to reshape the entire President Bidens decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline while approving a Russian pipeline reminds people of the gap between Trumps America-first policy and what seems to be Bidens America-last policy. Increasing inflation is already worrying the American people. The gasoline shortages caused by the hacking of the Colonial Pipeline in Georgia brought an immediate reminder of President Jimmy Carter and his failures. The list goes on.

The ideological prejudice of the national Democrats, coupled with their belief in a world that doesnt exist, will likely lead to a pragmatic performance failure of historic scale. Consider the lefts rejection of every policing reform Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Police Chief Bill Bratton used in dramatically turning around crime in New York City in the nineties. The left wants to cut the police, impose greater legal risks on being a policeman, disparage the police publicly, support district attorneys who refuse to prosecute crimes, and establish no-bail systems where criminals are put back on the street as soon as they arrive at the police station. Then they are shocked that an anti-police, pro-criminal policy leads to historic rates of increased crime.