{"id":1543920,"date":"2022-07-08T07:19:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T11:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543920"},"modified":"2022-07-08T07:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T11:19:59","slug":"newt-gingrich-lenins-show-trials-and-the-jan-6-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newt-gingrich-lenins-show-trials-and-the-jan-6-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt Gingrich: Lenin\u2019s Show Trials and the Jan. 6 Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnewt-gingrich-lenins-show-trials-and-the-jan-6-committee%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543920&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Jan. 6 Committee\u2019s show trail has been worthy of Soviet dictators. Let\u2019s take a step away from Lenin and Stalin and back toward George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gingrich360.com\/newt-gingrich-feature-articles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span><strong>Newt Gingrich<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I have watched with horror the totalitarian pattern of the Jan. 6 Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gingrich360.com\/2022\/06\/10\/pelosis-stalinist-show-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">wrote last month<\/span><\/a>, this is a staged show trial worthy of Vladimir Lenin who developed the technique (later used to great effect by Joseph Stalin) while creating the Soviet dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As Laura Engelstein wrote in her brilliant study \u201cRussia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 \u2013 1921:\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe trial of [Former Supreme Ruler of Russia Alexander] Kolchak<span class=\"s2\">\u2019<\/span>s ministers was the first and the prototype\u2014of the political show trials that were to reach their apogee in Stalin<span class=\"s2\">\u2019<\/span>s purges. The purpose of the exercise was to judge not only the responsible individuals, but the entire counterrevolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt was political theater intended for the instruction of <span class=\"s2\">\u2018<\/span>the masses,\u2019 several thousand of whom were compelled to attend. The defendants, knowing they were doomed, addressed a different audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When I watched Liz Cheney, who is the leading anti-Trump, anti-Republican member of the committee and clearly the driving force behind its most aggressive and dishonest tactics, said of her fellow Republicans that if they disagreed with her about \u201cdoing the right thing\u201d (as she defined it) \u201cyour dishonor will remain,\u201d I was stunned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">How could she arrogate to herself the ability to judge and condemn everyone who did not reach the same conclusion she did? How could she believe she held the keys to moral truth and everyone else was risking \u201cdishonor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I realized then that this was not a congressional committee hearing but a show trial. That notion led me to Engelstein\u2019s amazing history of the collapse of Tsarist Russia. She describes the two revolutions (moderate in the Spring and Bolshevik in the fall), the ensuing civil war, and the final stage of imposing totalitarianism by destroying the same peasants the Bolsheviks claimed to have favored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The parallels between the use of language by the woke Big Government Socialists and the propaganda techniques of the Leninist-Stalinist revolution are real and frightening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Study Lenin\u2019s use of the word \u201ckulak,\u201d which evolved from a benign description of middle-class farmers to any rural person who did not accept the Bolshevik regime. Lenin\u2019s answer was to methodically destroy them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Listen to the blood-thirsty tones of the Left and the constant anti-Republican propaganda and you can see a parallel evolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">You may think I am exaggerating, but consider the facts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Committee sessions are shows designed by a TV professional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There is selective editing of video and papers to condemn the Trump team as unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">As Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Times reported:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">\u201c[The Committee] has interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and obtained more than 25,000 documents related to last year\u2019s riot at the U.S. Capitol \u2014 yet most of the evidence remains a secret.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">\u201cThe committee has kept hidden the vast majority of its testimony, including entire transcripts of depositions that are now under dispute by more than a dozen people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cAmong the most prominent objectors are two Secret Service agents who are refuting a sensational claim made at a public hearing Tuesday by a former White House aide turned star witness for the committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">House Republicans should move a privileged resolution to release all the documents and interviews. Make the committee members explain why they want to keep the country from knowing all the facts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">Let\u2019s end the show trial and get back to a committee hearing with cross examinations, open information, and real accountability for the committee and its staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">Let\u2019s take a step away from Lenin and Stalin and back toward George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\n<h2 id=\"h-newt-s-latest-articles\">Newt\u2019s Latest Articles:<\/h2>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity alignwide\" \/>\n<h2 id=\"h-newt-s-latest-podcasts\">Newt\u2019s Latest Podcasts:<\/h2>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n<h2 id=\"h-pre-order-newt-s-latest-book\">Pre-<strong>Order Newt\u2019s Latest Book:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jan. 6 Committee\u2019s show trail has been worthy of Soviet dictators. Let\u2019s take a step away from Lenin and Stalin and back toward George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}