Left-wingers cannot fully understand who Russian authoritarian President Vladimir Putin is and why he continues to bombard Ukraine and its civilians because they lack a basic grasp of good versus evil, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Fox News.

In an interview airing Sunday on “Life, Liberty & Levin”, Gingrich explained how Americans were given a preview of how the left would handle Putin’s latest violation of international norms when they watched Democrats allow left-wing rioters full reign in 2020 and continue their soft-on-crime policies amid spikes in retail and violent crime in municipalities they run.

“I think that you can be willfully avoiding reality. But if you’re open to looking at reality, [Putin has] written a 9,000-word explanation: He gave a very long speech to the Russian people just before he invaded,” Gingrich, author of “Beyond Biden,” said.