The former House speaker has reinterpreted the history of the 1990s to make his decisions look better than they were. My new column goes through the evidence that the government shutdowns were bad for Republicans, limited government, and Gingrich himself.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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