Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that 'secular socialism' has 'infiltrated' the nation's courts, the Congress, academia, the bureaucracy, Hollywood and the news media. Newt: Left a worse threat than terror

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday said that "secular socialism" has "infiltrated" the nation's courts, the Congress, academia, the bureaucracy, Hollywood and the news media and is "even more disturbing than the threats from foreign terrorists."

Gingrich was plugging his new book "To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular Socialist Machine" in an article in Human Events.


"In the 20th Century, America fought and defeated Nazism, Fascism, Imperialism and Communism — four existential threats to our survival,” he writes. “In this century, America is facing two different kinds of threats, though no less grave,” Gingrich continued. “This time, the threat does not come from nation-state superpowers, but from non-state networks, each pursuing an agenda based upon radical ideologies.”

The first threat the Georgia Republican identifies is “non-state terrorist networks to kill Americans.”

"But even more disturbing than the threats from foreign terrorists is a second threat that is right here at home," he writes. "It is an ideology so fundamentally at odds with historic American values that it threatens to undo the cultural ethics that have made our country great. I call it 'secular-socialism.'

"The Left has thoroughly infiltrated nearly every cultural commanding height of our civilization," he says. "That is, they hold power, influence and control of academia, the elite news media, Hollywood, union leaders, trial lawyers, the courts, the Congress, and the bureaucracy at all levels of government."

“Barack Obama is the most radical President in American history," he goes on. "His administration combines the radicalism of Saul Alinsky, the corruption of Springfield, and the machine politics of Chicago. If they succeed in completing their agenda while in power, America will face becoming a European-style, high-tax, big-bureaucracy, low-economic-growth state.”

Gingrich’s rhetoric against Democrats — mostly focused on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan — has become more heated in the last week as he has been promoting his new book.

At the conclusion of his short column, Gingrich states that “the question before us is simple.”

“Will we be able to save America before it is too late?” he asks, with a hyperlink to his book’s page on Amazon.com.