As he would be the first to tell you, Newt Gingrich is a politician of ideas— big, strange and sometimes terrible ideas. In 1981, during his second term in Congress, he introduced a bill to enable America to make the Moon a state. In one of his dozens of books, he mused about bringing dinosaurs back to life. During his presidential campaign in 2012, he proposed making poor children janitors at their schools. His most enduring idea may also have been his worst: he figured out how to break American politics. If Steve Kornacki's "The Red and the Blue" has a villain, it is Mr Gingrich.
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