EJ Montini

opinion columnist

Yeah, this will unite the country.

Donald Trump confidant and cabinet possibility Newt Gingrich is proposing a renewed House Un-American Activities Committee, the witch-hunting, red-baiting, life-ruining, rights-trashing government investigation into alleged communist elements inside the U.S. government, the army, the entertainment industry, unions and just about every other aspect of U.S. society.

"We originally created the House Un-American Activities Committee to go after Nazis," Gingrich said on TV this week. "We passed several laws in 1938 and 1939 to go after Nazis and we made it illegal to help the Nazis. We're going to presently have to go take the similar steps here."

Instead of a “red scare” Gingrich is hoping to further stir the national paranoia with a “Muslim scare.”

Which will morph into a “Mexican scare.”

Which will morph into an “LGBT scare.”

Which will morph into a “liberal scare.”

All while we travel back to the 1950s and dark days of the ultimately shamed and condemned Republican Sen. Joe McCarthy.

Gingrich aspires to be the new “Tail-Gunner Joe.”

Back in that day the first question was: “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?”

I’d guess these boys would start with: “Are you now or have you ever been a Hillary Clinton supporter?”