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In reply to the discussion: We're in the midst of a coup d'etat [View all]BumRushDaShow
(128,833 posts)People like him start off doing this sort of thing as "performance art" but then something happens, they snap, and then completely disconnect from reality, forever locked into a distorted world-view and manner of discourse that they can't turn off. It basically becomes all-consuming.
That article from that Atlantic mag established this behavior throughout the entirety of the interview. Here you have Gingrich giving his interview while visiting the Philly Zoo and Philly's Academy of Natural Sciences, and while he is grandiose in his huffing and puffing about himself, he is also continually using his surroundings (the animals at one place and the dinosaur bones at the other) to childishly frame every aspect of life as he sees it, as being destroyed by "teh [sic] liberals".