Let’s Clear This Up

When Newt Gingrich attacked Ronald Reagan’s anti-Communist policies as “failures” in 1986, he wasn’t calling Reagan a closet Commie, he was saying the policies were weak tea, doomed to fall short. But Gingrich was demonstrably wrong; the Soviet Union collapsed. Now he’s been called on it, and the only response of his defenders is to claim he’s been quoted out of context by people out to defeat him. He hasn’t been. Rich Lowry elaborates.