Jonathan Chait Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• 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

• 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

• At best, Trumpism will be a more right-wing version of the same old Republican Party.

  Jonathan Chait

  Party, Wings, Republican

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

• Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking.

  Jonathan Chait

  Party, Thinking, Outcomes

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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

• Because many people remembered a time when the Republican Party was not so extreme, and hadn't full grasped how much it had changed, people blamed Obama for his failure to get Republicans to agree with him. That blame coloured so much of how the public saw Obama during his presidency. The public thought he was dealing with a brand of Republican leader that just didn't exist any more.

  Jonathan Chait

  Party, People, Leader

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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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