sure go ahead and blame/disparage numerous FReepers if you feel better.....
I’d say “gullibility” has a lot more to do with kissing up to the MSM and accepting their terms of reference such as the “Swift-boating” meme and then thinking that anything will ever change......
I know one has to pick one’s battles. I’ve said that Newt had reasons not to get into any discussion of the “Swiftboating” reference. But he is perfectly capable of rejecting the question and then saying what he wants to say without pandering.
He didn’t accept it. “No” is a word that many generations of people have understood as signifying rejection. If that has become too difficult to understand then it’s not a disparagement to point it out. It’s no wonder that the concept that they were trying to get him off track is light years beyond those who don’t know what “no” means.