Newt Gingrich: The left's opposition to Trump is “almost verbatim” reaction slave newspapers had to Lincoln

Gingrich: “If you go and you look at how South Carolina's slave newspapers responded to Lincoln and then you look at how the left responded to Trump. They are almost verbatim parallels”

From the August 23 edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight:

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NEWT GINGRICH: Well, look, I think a very good friend of mine teaches Civil War history at Gettysburg College and he has made the case that the parallels between Trump's inaugural and Lincoln's inaugural and the reactions to them are amazing.

That if you go and you look at how South Carolina's slave newspapers responded to Lincoln and then you look at how the left responded to Trump. They are almost verbatim parallels. 

And you know, I wish we could all sing Kumbaya and come together but I don't think that's going to happen. I think what's going to happen is the left is going to get crazier and crazier.

Previously:

Newt Gingrich: Like ISIS and the Taliban, the left wants to destroy our memory of what it means to be American

CNN's Symone Sanders calls for Trump to fire “white supremacist sympathizers” Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka

Neo-Nazis called on Trump to pardon Joe Arpaio. Now Trump is “seriously considering” doing it.