Fox's Laura Ingraham speculates Democrats put COVID restrictions in place as a way of “conditioning the public” for climate lockdowns Ingraham: “Was this a conditioning process for the next lockdown?” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 05/18/21 10:54 PM EDT Video file Citation From the May 18, 2021, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): A lot of us have felt like this was a process long in the making of conditioning the public. When we realize it was mostly a vulnerable population that was really suffering from COVID, most people would tolerate it quite well. Nevertheless, these lockdowns persisted. Was this a conditioning process for the next lockdown? NEWT GINGRICH (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): It may have been.