Jonathan Chait quotes
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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 positionThe operation in Gaza is not Netanyahu’s strategy in excess; it is Netanyahu’s strategy in its entirety. The liberal Zionist, two-state vision(that) once commanded a mainstream position within Israeli political life has been relegated to a left-wing rump within it.”
-- Jonathan ChaitSource : "Israel Is Making It Hard To Be Pro-Israel". Article by Jonathan Chait, nymag.com. July 29, 2014.
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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.”
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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 ChaitSource : 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 ChaitSource : "PRUDEN: An FDR lesson Obama missed" by Wesley Pruden, www.washingtontimes.com. March 2, 2010.
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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 ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.”
-- Jonathan ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician.”
-- Jonathan ChaitSource : 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 ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance.”
-- Jonathan ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.”
-- Jonathan ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“Obama took 20 million people from the category of ignorables and put them into the category of unignorables. No one had to do anything for these 20 million people because they were outside the system. Now they're inside the system. Taking away their health care imposes all kind of political pain. We don't know the outcome, but every passing day it show how difficult it is for Trump to deprive them of what they now have.”
-- Jonathan ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“On Obamacare, every day that goes by I have more evidence that I wish I could put in my book, on how difficult it is for the Republicans to eliminate this law. They have no real alternative. They're afraid to take away health care from the 20 million people who now have it.”
-- Jonathan ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“In public, Barack Obama's giving the simple version of his beliefs for the mass public. In private, he can discuss it at a really high level.”
-- Jonathan ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“Barack Obama is pretty similar to the person you see in public, at press conferences. He's a little saltier, a little more sarcastic and cutting.”
-- Jonathan ChaitSource : 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 ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump.”
-- Jonathan ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition.”
-- Jonathan ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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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 ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“I don't think the Democrats need a silver bullet.”
-- Jonathan ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“Liberals tend to romanticize the past, past leaders' failures.”
-- Jonathan ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“Liberals will only support you after you're gone.”
-- Jonathan ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“Conservatives are much more comfortable supporting the leader who's in power than liberals.”
-- Jonathan ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“It's absolutely true that people who believed Hillary Clinton would be a decent or even strong nominee need to think why that got that wrong. Laying the entire blame at the feet of Russia and the FBI is not sufficient. The biggest reason things went wrong were her own choices and her own weaknesses.”
-- Jonathan ChaitSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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