No single political figure better illustrates the predicate for Donald Trump than Newt Gingrich. Both men are deeply damaged psychological cripples from dysfunctional families. In The Atlantic, McKay Coppins described Gingrich’s stepfather as “a brooding, violent man who showed little affection for ‘Newtie,’ the pudgy, flat-footed, bookish boy his wife had foisted upon him.” His mother “struggled with manic depression, and spent much of her adult life in a fog of medication.”4 Donald Trump’s relationship to his family is so tortured he has the bizarre need to reinvent their origins, claiming
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