Jonathan Chait Quotes

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• Illiberal left ideology has its greatest strength on campuses because campuses are one of the few places in American life where a certain kind of far-left politics can actually impose hegemony on other ideas and really control the discourse in a way it can't in most places in American life where even moderate liberals are more of a minority.

  Jonathan Chait

  Ideas, Hegemony, Minorities

  Source: www.npr.org

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• President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous.

  Jonathan Chait

  Party, President, Sides

  "PRUDEN: An FDR lesson Obama missed" by Wesley Pruden, www.washingtontimes.com. March 2, 2010.

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• Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

  Jonathan Chait

  Perfect, Choices, Progress

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• That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That's certain to be reversed, that's going to disappear. The Republicans are going to slash the rich's taxes.

  Jonathan Chait

  Accomplishment, Important, Bills

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic position within the world and an inexorable demographic decline. The operation in Gaza
  is not Netanyahu’s strategy in excess; it is Netanyahu’s strategy in its entirety. The liberal Zionist, two-state vision with which I identify, which once commanded a mainstream position within Israeli political life has been relegated to a left-wing rump within it.

  Jonathan Chait

  Wings, Two, Political

  "Israel Is Making It Hard To Be Pro-Israel". Article by Jonathan Chait, nymag.com. July 29, 2014.

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• It's pretty clear that Hillary Clinton was a deeply, deeply flawed alternative. She had the wrong combination of the internal political chops to muscle out all the mainstream nominations from the field, leaving only Bernie Sanders, who was unacceptable to the Democrats' party establishment. But she also had a real lack of political skill that would enable her to win the general election.

  Jonathan Chait

  Real, Party, Winning

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In the long run, however much damage we come through, Obama's vision is the one that's going to be left standing. It's a question of how much pain and suffering America has to endure in the meantime.

  Jonathan Chait

  Running, Pain, America

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Obamaism is the future of America.

  Jonathan Chait

  America, Future Of America

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Barack Obama is an intellectual.

  Jonathan Chait

  Intellectual, Barack

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• Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

  Jonathan Chait

  Ideas, Dead Ends, Trump

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician.

  Jonathan Chait

  Politician, Clinton, Very Good

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The story of the Republican Party is of a far-right that has moved from the fringes of the party to a complete domination of the party. The moderate, mainstream and pragmatic leaders of the party have been pushed out or died off.

  Jonathan Chait

  Party, Leader, Stories

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

  Jonathan Chait

  Party, Identity Politics, White

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Trump has a lot of authoritarian tendencies that need to be a serious concern.

  Jonathan Chait

  Needs, Serious, Trump

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.

  Jonathan Chait

  Years, Coal, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump.

  Jonathan Chait

  Worry, Democracy, Structure

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• One of the things we've learned during the Obama era is how important norms are, because we've seen how the Republican Party behaved against Obama. So much of what they did was to smash pre-existing norms, which were nothing more than assumptions of how people would behave, which didn't have any real basis in rules or limits.

  Jonathan Chait

  Real, Party, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Liberals will only support you after you're gone.

  Jonathan Chait

  Support You, Support, Gone

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Liberals tend to romanticize the past, past leaders' failures.

  Jonathan Chait

  Past, Leader

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.

  Jonathan Chait

  Elements, Entertainment, Pretending

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It's possible that the clowning and the buffoonery and the entertainment are a bigger part of what's happening than we've allowed. And that Trump is primarily an entertainer who wants ratings, and an undisciplined speaker, and it will all be less than we think. It's something that we have to consider as a possibility; we don't know.

  Jonathan Chait

  Thinking, Want, Entertainment

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Everything on Twitter is true.

  Jonathan Chait

  "A 'New York' Politics Chat: What Can Hillary Do to Beat Trump in the First Debate?" by Rebecca Traister, Jonathan Chait, Ed Kilgore, Eric Levitz, Jesse Singal and Jebediah Reed, nymag.com. September 25, 2016.

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• Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

  Jonathan Chait

  Tragedy, American History, Trump

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

  Jonathan Chait

  Years, Important, Pantheon

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Barack Obama is a very impressive human being.

  Jonathan Chait

  Impressive, Barack, Humans

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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