As TPM reported, Newt Gingrich had the gall to blame the existence of Trump on Fox News—ON Fox News:

When host Brian Kilmeade asked Gingrich how Trump could be "running away with this thing," the former Georgia congressman turned the blame back on the network.

"Look, that's because of you guys," Gingrich said. "Donald Trump gets up in the morning, tweets to the entire planet at no cost, picks up the phone, calls you, has a great conversation for about eight minutes, which would have cost him a ton in commercial money, and meanwhile his opponents are all out there trying to raise the money to run an ad. Nobody believes the ad."

Not that he's wrong... But let's not forget the strain of Republicanism, dreamed up and led by Gingrich not so very long ago, which harnessed (and in its way created) the culture of know-nothing obstructionism and Manichean divisiveness that prevails at every level of politics and political discourse to this day. That culture helped demonstrate that there was a loyal audience for the ideological radiation treatment Fox would later serve up and call "News."

Gingrich is right about Fox News inventing Trump. But he helped invent Fox News, so fuck him forever. Video is here (Slog won't embed it; one of us has some delicacy left).