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Across Europe, the effects are visible and impossible to deny. In the United Kingdom, there are now 85 sharia councils operating alongside British law, handling family disputes for Muslim communities that reject assimilation. In France, entire neighborhoods are effectively off-limits to police as migrant gangs exert control over the streets.
Gingrich emphasized that these outcomes were predictable and preventable.
“They adopted policies which are virtually guaranteed to undermine and ultimately their countries will just disappear,” Gingrich warned.¹
Europe’s economic and military weakness only compounds the problem. Despite its massive collective economy, European nations cannot defend themselves against Russia without American support. Even more telling, not a single one of the world’s nine trillion-dollar companies is European. Seven are American. Two are Chinese. Europe has none.
That reality has driven European leaders into panic mode, and Gingrich says the result has been a disturbing turn toward authoritarianism.
Sean Hannity raised concerns about the erosion of basic freedoms across the continent, pointing to cases where citizens have been arrested simply for posting opinions online.
“I look at Europe and I worry,” Hannity said. “I am very worried what’s happening there. I think they are becoming more authoritarian by the day.”¹
Gingrich agreed and said the repression is a direct response to growing public anger.
“You have elites who are under — basically under siege in almost all these countries,” Gingrich stated. “You have popular discontent on a big scale. And so, the governments have adopted policies of repression which are I think amazing.”¹
From speech laws in Britain to regulatory threats aimed at Elon Musk and X, European governments are increasingly criminalizing dissent, especially when it involves questioning mass immigration.
France, Gingrich said, has spent decades lying to its citizens about the consequences of importing large populations that reject Western values.
“It’s not complicated. If you accept enough people who deeply hate and disagree with your culture, you’re going to be in big trouble,” Gingrich declared.¹
Now, voters are starting to push back. Populist movements are surging across the continent. In France, the largest political force is focused on restoring national sovereignty. Hungary and Poland continue to resist elite mandates. In the Netherlands, voters just handed victory to Geert Wilders, who ran on stopping mass immigration.
Gingrich believes President Trump understands what is at stake and is acting accordingly.
Trump’s renewed national security strategy, he said, is not about abandoning Europe but forcing it to confront reality.
“I think Trump is doing them an enormous service,” Gingrich explained.¹
Vice President JD Vance reinforced that message during early speeches overseas, making clear that the United States will no longer subsidize failure.
“America can’t do it for you and America in the long run cannot prop you up if you refuse to reform your system,” Gingrich said about the Trump administration’s approach.¹
Trump has also confronted Europe on unfair trade practices and demanded that NATO members finally pay their share instead of relying on American taxpayers for defense.
At the heart of the crisis, Gingrich argued, is elite vanity. European leaders cared more about appearing enlightened at international gatherings than protecting their own people. They opened borders, silenced dissent, and dismissed ordinary citizens as backward for objecting.
Now the consequences are unavoidable.
“We’re in a very critical period and I think what President Trump is doing is historically unbelievably important,” Gingrich concluded.¹
Europe’s ruling class faces a final choice. Either listen to their citizens and restore national sovereignty or watch their civilization fade within a single generation.
America, Gingrich made clear, should not be forced to pay for their failure.
