On the 10th, he was giving a dry run of that briefing to some staff members of the Congressional Planning Committee of the Republican Party. With Newt's permission, I collected the handouts, and took notes of that meeting. On June 12, I presented them to a hastily-convened seminar of the UH Political Science Department. What follows is based on those notes and handouts, and my continuing to follow Gingrich's career subsequently, though more recently, only from afar. The corollary is that when futurists make useful statements about the future, they should expect to be ridiculed and laughed at.
Futurists have no problem with that.
Unfortunately, the media, willfully ignorant of the utility of futures studies, only knows how to ridicule and laugh. It is all there, folks. Newt Gingrich did not suddenly appear on the political scene. Absolutely nothing is secret or surprising here. The election of Reagan in 1980 was, Newt believed, a fluke, not a trend.