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In place of presidential addresses, stump speeches, or town halls, we have Trump's demagogic mass rallies. In place of the usual jousting between the administration and the press, we have a president who fantasizes on Twitter about physically assaulting CNN.
- Bret Stephens
#Administration
#Place
#President
#Who
This is the standard line of the Trump side of the party, that us who oppose him are just a bunch of elites who live in the Acela corridor in this bubble of unimaginable wealth. I wish I had been born into an extremely wealthy New York real estate family and been given multimillion dollar loans to get my start in life.
- Bret Stephens
#Family
#Life
#Live
#Start
#Wealth
In the scale of American blunders - from the Dred Scott decision to the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s to the tragedy of Vietnam - is the Trump presidency really unique?
- Bret Stephens
#American
#Decision
#Tragedy
#Unique
Institutionalized racism is an imaginary enemy.
- Bret Stephens
#Enemy
#Imaginary
#Institutionalized
I grew up in Mexico City at a time when the country was a repressive one-party dictatorship almost wholly dependent on oil revenues.
- Bret Stephens
#City
#Country
#Dictatorship
#Oil
#Time
Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
- Bret Stephens
#Decency
#Moral
#Sense
#Social
#Succeed
Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.
- Bret Stephens
#Converts
#Few
#Moral
#Superiority
#Wins
Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.
- Bret Stephens
#Fast
#Generosity
#Unlimited
#Virtue
We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
- Bret Stephens
#Authority
#Data
#Live
#Way
#World
The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.
- Bret Stephens
#American
#Conservatism
#Open
#Sewer
'Democratic socialism' is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And 'social democracy' - a term that better fits the belief of more ordinary liberals who want, say, Medicare for all - is a politically dying force. Democrats who aren't yet sick of all their losing should feel free to embrace them both.
- Bret Stephens
#Better
#Democracy
#Feel
#Free
#Socialism
The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.
- Bret Stephens
#Always
#Hatred
#More
#Object
#Than
Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.
- Bret Stephens
#Honor
#Integrity
#Resignation
#Sense
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.
- Bret Stephens
#American
#Candidate
#Fraud
#Reality
A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.
- Bret Stephens
#Architecture
#Free
#Immigration
#War
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