Quotes by Jonathan Chait

Jonathan Chait

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

Choices

Perfect

Progress

American democracy faces a massive challenge. I don’t think it is a certainty that we’re headed toward Putin’s Russia, as some commentariat does. But people need to mobilize and build up small-d democratic institutions to prepare against that eventuality.

People

Russia

Thinking

At best, Trumpism will be a more right-wing version of the same old Republican Party.

Party

Republican

Wings

Barack Obama is a very impressive human being.

Barack

Humans

Impressive

Barack Obama is an intellectual.

Barack

Intellectual

Barack Obama is extremely smart.

Barack

Smart

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.

Cutting

Littles

Sarcastic

Barack Obama knows a lot about a lot of things.

Barack

Knows

Because many people remembered a time when the Republican Party was not so extreme, and hadn’t full grasped how much it had changed, people blamed Obama for his failure to get Republicans to agree with him. That blame coloured so much of how the public saw Obama during his presidency. The public thought he was dealing with a brand of Republican leader that just didn’t exist any more.

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Party

People

Conservatives are much more comfortable supporting the leader who’s in power than liberals.

Comfortable

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Fighting

Future Of America

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Gone

Hegemony

Humans

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Identity Politics

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Law

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Quotes by Jonathan Chait

Jonathan Chait

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

American democracy faces a massive challenge. I don’t think it is a certainty that we’re headed toward Putin’s Russia, as some commentariat does. But people need to mobilize and build up small-d democratic institutions to prepare against that eventuality.

At best, Trumpism will be a more right-wing version of the same old Republican Party.

Barack Obama is a very impressive human being.

Barack Obama is an intellectual.

Barack Obama is extremely smart.

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.

Barack Obama knows a lot about a lot of things.

Conservatives are much more comfortable supporting the leader who’s in power than liberals.

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