Gingrich to Levin: Trump Is Getting the Last Laugh
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Here was this recent headline over there at Fox News:
Trump’s polls bump up after every indictment because voters see him putting country before self: Gingrich
The story by Fox reporter Charles Creitz starts by noting this:
Former President Donald Trump’s booking at Atlanta’s notorious “Rice Street” jail did not have the intended effect Democrats were hoping for, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., suggested to Fox News.
In an interview on “Life, Liberty & Levin,” Gingrich — whose Cobb County district lies just northwest of where Trump turned himself in — said people in the Peach State and beyond are recognizing what the situation actually represents.
Host Mark Levin, a former Reagan Justice Department chief of staff, noted the poll bumps, saying many Americans regardless of party don’t like how the criminal justice system is evolving during the Biden era.
“I think that Trump is not a candidate — Trump is the leader of a movement,” Gingrich replied. “He’s the personification of an establishment that is totally corrupt, destroying anything that gets in its way.”
In short? Bingo.
The famous ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu had these words of wisdom for those involved in battle. In his classic book The Art of War, Sun Tzu advised:
Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.
Nothing could better describe what is happening in the battle between America’s corrupt political establishment and the former president. The establishment has repeatedly shown its ignorance of the millions of Americans who are Trump supporters for a reason. And it has shown a stubborn refusal to grasp the depth of its own political corruption. (READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: Fani Willis Indicts Free Speech)
Gingrich added this in his talk with Levin:
“I think many people who may or may not like Trump’s personality, but they look at this and they think, ‘Here are my choices. I’m going to side with a totally corrupt administration or I’m going to side with the guy who has the guts to stand there and take the beating and keep coming.” …
On Fox News, Gingrich said Trump could have retired comfortably after the 2020 election, and have been confident none of the charges in Atlanta, Washington, New York or Miami would have been lodged against him.
But instead, Trump decided to put the preservation of the American system before his own personal risks or interest, he said.
“If he’d retired, none of these charges would ever have occurred, and instead, he said, ‘You know, the country is worth going through this,’ and I think that’s given him support in places that normally wouldn’t have supported him.”
Exactly.
Back in the 1950s, the young Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy wrote what became a Pulitzer Prize–winning bestseller titled Profiles in Courage.
Amazon today describes JFK’s book in this fashion:
During 1954-55, Kennedy, then a junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, profiled eight American patriots, mainly United States Senators, who at crucial moments in our nation’s history, revealed a special sort of greatness: men who disregarded dreadful consequences to their public and private lives to do that one thing which seemed right in itself. They were men of various political and regional allegiances—their one overriding loyalty was to the United States.
Courage such as these men shared, Kennedy makes clear, is central to all morality—a man does what he must in spite of personal consequences—and these exciting stories suggest that, without in the least disparaging the courage with which men die, we should not overlook the true greatness adorning those acts of courage with which men must live.
Note the description of the men on whom JFK focused:
[They were] men who disregarded dreadful consequences to their public and private lives to do that one thing which seemed right in itself. They were men of various political and regional allegiances—their one overriding loyalty was to the United States.
Courage such as these men shared, Kennedy makes clear, is central to all morality—a man does what he must in spite of personal consequences.
As the repeated indictments of former President Trump keep coming, famously now resulting in a literal mug shot, nothing could be more certain that in this thunderous battle against a deeply corrupted political establishment, Trump has quite vividly shown himself to be a decided “Profile in Courage.” Trump has shown — exactly as Gingrich says — that he is willing to challenge Americans as to whether they will:
side with a totally corrupt administration … or side with the guy who has the guts to stand there and take the beating and keep coming.
Clearly the American people have made their choice. They stand with Trump.
The former president’s polls are skyrocketing. Money is surging into his campaign at record levels. (RELATED from Jeffrey Lord: Trump Leads Big Time in New Poll)
And it is a safe bet that when his rallies resume, they will be filled to over-flowing with tens and hundreds of thousands of Americans making it crystal clear that they stand with Trump — not with the corrupted political establishment now personified by President Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, special counsel Jack Smith, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
As the 2024 election unfolds, and this monumental battle between Trump and a seriously corrupt political establishment proceeds, American history of the most vivid kind is being written.
With millions of Americans understanding that America itself is under attack — and they must fight back. Knowing full well that, beyond the former president, they themselves are the target.
I would add that, collectively in response, they have joined the former president, who stands defiantly as a Profile in Courage.
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