By Newt Gingrich

There is something obscene and repulsive about American businesses having to board up store windows on the eve of an election because they know their government cannot protect them from anti-American barbarians and thugs.

There is something unAmerican about mobs going into neighborhoods and restaurants and intimidating innocent citizens.

President Donald Trump should respond to the vicious, destructive, and lawless mob precisely as President Abraham Lincoln did.

Consider how deeply Lincoln understood the importance of enforcing the law and providing safety and order – and the obligation of the government to use force when necessary.

Like Lincoln, we are going to ensure “that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”