We're in the midst of a coup d'etat
which should be blatantly obvious to everyone. If Trump moves to carry out this coup during the election, the military must stop him and appoint the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, as acting president while all the ballots are counted.
What justifies the military doing this? The oath they all took which in part says, "... and to defend the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." (underline and bold type added) If Trump isn't a domestic enemy of our democracy, then words are meaningless.
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Just look at his track record! The proof is right there! If he's dumb enough to tell us what his plans are, WE better be PREPARED!!! 
None of this makes any sense. 
This vile scumbag weasel is right at the front of the list (before Raygun, before Limpballs, before Faux Snooze) -
There was an excellent essay in The Atlantic a couple years ago that delves into that here - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/
One excerpt -
“One of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty,” he told the group. “We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal, and faithful, and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the campfire but are lousy in politics.” For their party to succeed, Gingrich went on, the next generation of Republicans would have to learn to “raise hell,” to stop being so “nice,” to realize that politics was, above all, a cutthroat “war for power”—and to start acting like it.
The speech received little attention at the time. Gingrich was, after all, an obscure, untenured professor whose political experience consisted of two failed congressional bids. But when, a few months later, he was finally elected to the House of Representatives on his third try, he went to Washington a man obsessed with becoming the kind of leader he had described that day in Atlanta. The GOP was then at its lowest point in modern history. Scores of Republican lawmakers had been wiped out in the aftermath of Watergate, and those who’d survived seemed, to Gingrich, sadly resigned to a “permanent minority” mind-set. “It was like death,” he recalls of the mood in the caucus. “They were morally and psychologically shattered.”
But Gingrich had a plan. The way he saw it, Republicans would never be able to take back the House as long as they kept compromising with the Democrats out of some high-minded civic desire to keep congressional business humming along. His strategy was to blow up the bipartisan coalitions that were essential to legislating, and then seize on the resulting dysfunction to wage a populist crusade against the institution of Congress itself. “His idea,” says Norm Ornstein, a political scientist who knew Gingrich at the time, “was to build toward a national election where people were so disgusted by Washington and the way it was operating that they would throw the ins out and bring the outs in.”
And here we are 42 years later.
People like him start off doing this sort of thing as "performance art" but then something happens, they snap, and then completely disconnect from reality, forever locked into a distorted world-view and manner of discourse that they can't turn off. It basically becomes all-consuming.
That article from that Atlantic mag established this behavior throughout the entirety of the interview. Here you have Gingrich giving his interview while visiting the Philly Zoo and Philly's Academy of Natural Sciences, and while he is grandiose in his huffing and puffing about himself, he is also continually using his surroundings (the animals at one place and the dinosaur bones at the other) to childishly frame every aspect of life as he sees it, as being destroyed by "teh [sic] liberals".
It's just mind boggling that facts simply don't matter. Or, worse. Many researchers seem to be saying that confronting RWers with facts actually makes them more belligerently attached to the lies they believe. I honestly don't know how to function in a world where these cults comprise a significant percentage of the population. Especially when many of them are in power.
Fascinating, and maybe slightly amusing, some here are so easily rattled by Trump. These posts will not age well. But believe me, I’m keeping the receipts.
