Charlie Sykes Quotes
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Across the country, universities that had abandoned in loco parentis in the 1960s because it was too oppressive and intrusive have replaced it with in loco Big Brother programs of political and cultural re-education.
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Some people ask how the conservative media can continue to defend Trump. It's very easy for them: No matter how bad Trump is, the mainstream media and the Left will always be worse, you know? Don't expect Rush Limbaugh to turn on him.
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The thing most frightening about Donald Trump is he doesn't know what he doesn't know and doesn't seem to care about what he doesn't know, and as a result of that, he doesn't know what the consequences of his actions might be.
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To finally reform higher education, we should start by asking fundamental questions, such as, Why does it take four years to get a degree?
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In 2010, conservatives won big majorities in the Wisconsin State Legislature, and I openly supported many of their reforms, including changes to collective bargaining and expansions of school choice.
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I knew Buckley - he was a friend of mine - and Steve Bannon is no William F. Buckley. Buckley marginalized the kooks. Bannon empowered them.
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I'm not usually absolutely speechless.
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It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest.
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I feel dumber every time I listen to Sean Hannity. I don't want to be that guy.
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Conservatives spent an awful long time ignoring things: the birthers, the bigots, the xenophobes, the alternative-reality media. We had assumed that they were postcards from the fringe.
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Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.
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Unless you have experienced it, it's difficult to describe the virulence of the Twitter storms that were unleashed on Trump skeptics.
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For years, Republicans have effectively outsourced their thought leadership to the loudmouths at the end of the bar. But perhaps the most extreme example of that trend has been the issue of guns, where the party has ceded control to a gun lobby that has built its brand on absolutism.
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The dumbing down of elementary and secondary education has made its way to the collegiate level; too many unprepared students are admitted despite their inability to do college-level work.
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A lot of Americans do not have an appreciation for our history. They do not understand the Constitution, why we have these norms. And at some point, yes, the media has some responsibility, but so does the public.
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The shock of Trumpism has made me rethink what the conservative movement was about and who our allies were and what our assumptions were.
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Criticisms of mainstream media bias have been a staple of the conservative movement and talk radio from the beginning.
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Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter.
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With a vast majority of conservative voters and listeners solidly behind Mr. Trump, conservative critics of the president find themselves isolated and under siege.
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The GOP was once the party of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and John McCain.
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I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.
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The N.R.A. has effectively turned itself into the Id of the Right.
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You know something that you'll never hear on one of these cable talking-head shows? One of the guests going, 'Hmm, I don't know.'
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We have to have a revival of the concept 'truth matters.'