Newt Gingrich Says Trump Could Be ‘Most Consequential’ Pres Since Lincoln For Taking ‘Sledgehammer’ To Establishment

Newt Gingrich: The surprising thing Trump and Lincoln have in common

The Media Research Center has reported that from June 1 to Sept. 30 it monitored the TV network evening news programs on ABC, CBS, and NBC and found that 92 percent of news coverage of President Trump during this period was negative. The center called this “the most hostile coverage of a President in TV history.”

This relentless hostility parallels what President Lincoln had to endure in the media of his day – newspapers and magazines.

Just as President Trump railed against “fake news,” President Lincoln felt that a significant front in his war to preserve the Union was against the news media.

President Lincoln was a very different man facing a radically more dangerous situation than President Trump. Yet each president represents a direct threat to a national establishment by an outsider.

Isn’t that what Democracy is about?

The next time you hear a nasty attack on President Trump, consider what people wrote and said about President Lincoln.

There is a lot more similarity between the Lincoln crisis of the Union and the Trump crisis of the establishment than most people will want to even consider.