Summary of March to the Majority by Newt Gingrich:The Real Story of the Republican Revolution

By Justin Reese

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Summary of March to the Majority by Newt Gingrich:The Real Story of the Republican Revolution

 

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Newt Gingrich and Joe Gaylord share the stories, events, and activities that led to the Contract with America and the first re-elected Republican majority since 1928. March to the Majority is about the past, but also the challenges our nation faces today and offers principles for governing the American people.

• Language: English
• Publisher: jUSTIN REESE
• Release date: Jun 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223466246

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WHY IT MATTERS NOW

This book is a history of the most important moments in the rise of the modern Republican Party, specifically the decades-long struggle to end Democratic Party rule and usher in a Republican House majority. The story of the 1994 Republican Revolution is remarkable, as there were many adventures, personalities, missteps, and victories on the road from a seemingly permanent House GOP minority to the first Republican majority in decades. The corporate media has rewritten much of this history, but the truth is that the Democrat majority was far more ruthlessly partisan than we ever were. We ran the most open, bipartisan congressional sessions in our lifetimes, and many Democrats routinely voted with us in passing the items in the Contract with America. The liberal establishment hated us (then and now) because we succeeded and took away their power.

The March to the Majority was a successful event that created the first GOP House majority in forty years and was the first reelected GOP House Republican majority in sixty-eight years. The House Republicans' Commitment to America was crucial for ending four years of Democrat rule in 2022 and grew out of the legacy of the Contract with America in 1994. Welfare reform reasserted a work ethic and a sense of self-reliance, and four consecutive balanced budgets were the only ones we have seen in our lifetimes. Joe Gaylord was instrumental in building the Republican committees into a national system that could best the Democrat machine, and they realized that they had built on President Ronald Reagan’s approach and achievements in a way that merited explanation and study. This book is a study of history and an instruction manual for creating and leading a new and improved Republican Party.

It focuses on the lessons learned from working with President Reagan, helping the Bush family, and negotiating with President Bill Clinton to pass conservative reforms. It is not a memoir or autobiography, but rather an instruction manual for creating and leading a new and improved Republican Party. The March to the Majority is a book that provides tools, principles, and insights to help Republicans be successful in politics and legislatively. It applies to incumbents, candidates, consultants, pollsters, analysts, and commentators, as well as Americans who want to learn how to be more effective in improving their country.

WHERE IT ALL STARTED

The most important details in this text are the events leading up to the 1994 election, which was the first Republican House majority in forty years. Joe Gaylord and the author discussed the history of the Republican Revolution, which began long before 1994 and endures today. Gaylord spent three hours talking through the elections they would win, and they won 54 seats, becoming the first Republican House majority in forty years. This victory set the stage for an enduring Republican majority that lasted a dozen years. The most important details in this text are the steps taken by House Republicans to become a majority party in 1996.

The author suggested creating a long-range planning committee to take the Grand Old Party and chart a deliberate course to become the majority party, which was accepted by the National Republican Congressional Committee. After seven failed elections and fourteen years of effort, the successful effort was set off in 1993. The author also noted that it took him five years to win a congressional seat in Georgia, and that he had to think back to 1960 when he watched every minute of the Democrat and Republican national convention coverage. The most important details in this text are the stories of the author's development and growth as an active citizen who cared about politics. These stories have never been told publicly before, and many are not explicitly related to the Republican Revolution.

The author's mother, Kathleen Kit Dougherty, had married her biological father Newton Newt McPherson, who went off to World War II in the U.S. Navy and got a Purple Heart fighting in the Mediterranean. Robert Bruce Gingrich, a persistent fighter for Scottish independence, spent seventeen years in a war of independence against the English in the early fourteenth century. The author's willingness to endure a long campaign became a hallmark of his life. The most important details in this text are that the author's father was sent to Korea and spent twenty-seven years as a career infantryman, and that his mother's family took care of him.

His grandmother had a stern belief in duty and citizenship, and the author was born in the middle of