Newt Gingrich: Crisis of American civilization – here's what we must do to oppose forces trying to destroy US

We are now in a crisis of American civilization fully as dangerous and real as the crisis of the U.S. Civil War or World War II. 

Today, we face combined internal and external threats that are as great or greater.  The threat to American civilization goes far beyond violence in the streets.  Internationally, we face a surging China whose economic, scientific and technological power is now fully competitive with the United States. The recent aggressiveness in the South China Sea, against Taiwan, and in domestic repression (including concentration camps and genocide against the Uyghurs, crushing Tibetan Buddhist culture, and repressing the freedom movement in Hong Kong) are all signs of the Chinese Communist Party’s self-confidence.