Newt Gingrich's New Mission: the Selling of Trumpism

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The Ambassador of Trumpism

The former House speaker already has embarked on his new role as Trump’s 'senior planner,' even if it is not yet an official job with the incoming administration.

By David Catanese | Senior Politics Writer Dec. 15, 2016, at 6:06 p.m.

Newt Gingrich was dozing off and one could hardly blame him.

An equally wonky and dry panel session on potential regulatory reform under President-elect Donald Trump was slinking into its third boresome hour inside a sunlit white-walled conference room on the 10th floor of a premier Washington law firm.

The former House speaker was seated in the final plastic chair on the dais, next to seven other dark-suited experts plucked from think tanks, congressional committee staff and the American Forest & Paper Association. As one after another slumped over a podium and drawled on about how best to go about reimagining the byzantine sets of rules that guide the country's most rudimentary functions, even the brainy Gingrich looked disinterested, shutting his eyes for noticeably lengthy periods during the forgettable presentations.

That is, until it was his turn to take the floor as the grand finale and pitch his new pet project: the selling of Trumpism.

"I think the odds are better than even money that Nov. 8, 2016, was a watershed event," Gingrich told the modest crowd assembled at the Covington Group on Wednesday morning without much modesty at all. "The basic radicalism of Trumpism is dramatically greater than Reagan was in 1980 or we were in 1994."

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[geek tragedy]

1. Trumpism is pretty much the same old same old Republican crap with a more vulgar

marketing package.

Policy-wise, not a dime's worth of difference between Trump and George W Bush or Dick Cheney or Paul Ryan or Ted Cruz.

[louis-t]

2. Same tired, failed ideology.

More radical than the last, more dangerous.