I read an opinion piece by Newt Gingrich that’s being peddled by Fox News. He says Trumpy should just say “no” to that bully Muller’s questions. Trump is too busy, says Newt, to have a detailed memory of events of the first year of his presidency. Try asking Trump what his golf score has been over the last several years.

I have a good memory of Mr. Gingrich’s unremitting efforts to introduce extreme polarization and intolerance into American political life. Though he left public office under a cloud after the House voted (395 to 28) to reprimand him for an ethics violation, he has continued to pop up from time to time to display his corrosive views and personality. As I wrote in an earlier entry, I was hoping that he would fade into a life of silent repose at the Vatican with Mrs. Gingrich III. How wrong I was! The era of Trump has brought many bugs of the woodwork, Gingrich among them. Old reactionaries never fade away.