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Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch.
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We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not.
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For the anti-anti-Trump pundit, whatever the allegation against Mr. Trump, whatever his blunders or foibles, the other side is always worse.
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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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It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I feel dumber every time I listen to Sean Hannity. I don't want to be that guy.
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The GOP was once the party of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and John McCain.
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The N.R.A. has effectively turned itself into the Id of the Right.
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We have to have a revival of the concept 'truth matters.'
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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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