Newt Gingrich and the revenge of the base
http://dervishcom.blogspot.com/2011/12/newt-gingrich-and-revenge-of-base.html
It is one of the true delights of a bizarrely entertaining Republican presidential contest to watch the apoplectic fear and loathing of so many GOP establishmentarians toward Newt Gingrich. They treat him as an alien body whose approach to politics they have always rejected.
In fact, Gingrich's rise is the revenge of a Republican base that takes seriously the intense hostility to President Obama, the incendiary accusations against liberals and the Manichaean division of the world between an "us" and a "them" that his party has been peddling in the interest of electoral success.
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