- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate - entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the world - turns out to be negotiable and reversible, depending on Donald Trump's whims and the furies of his base.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's normal that elections make fierce partisans of many of us. It's normal that Mr. Trump would attract the usual right-wing buffoons to his banners. Normal, also, is that many voters may not be troubled by Mr. Trump's cruder statements when they hear him addressing their deepest economic and social anxieties.
- Egypt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump is a demagogue. Period. The fervor of his crowds recalls Nasser's Egypt. His convictions are illiberal. His manners are disgusting. His temper is frightening.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
When those of us in the words-making world use the term 'overregulation,' we are mostly putting a name to a concept we rarely experience consciously.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.
- Once
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- Nov 07, 2020
Free trade was once a Republican conviction.
- Belonging
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it's slightly less bad than the opposition.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's always merit in getting out of our ideological silos and being exposed to points of view with which we don't always agree.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Voter fraud is a reality in American elections, but it is typical of the candidate to confuse anecdote with data and turn allegation into conspiracy.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time when the conservative movement was led by the likes of Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol and Bob Bartley, men of ideas who invested the Republican Party with intellectual seriousness.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important that Donald Trump and what he represents - this kind of ethnic, quote, 'conservatism,' or populism - be so decisively rebuked that the Republican Party, the Republican voters will forever learn their lesson that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape, or form.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something kind of aggressively and inhumanly repetitive about this line that guns are essential to American liberties - hard one to stomach when so many thousands of people are dying every year for this so-called liberty.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get if you're a conservative, and you're saying, I don't know, 'Government shouldn't be mandating what's taught in classrooms,' or, 'Government is too intrusive in our economic life,' well, that's standard conservatism.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it is impossible to make the case to sensible Americans that far greater restrictions on their so-called gun rights is imperative for public safety. It is an argument we can win.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020