Quotes About Trumpism

Trumpism' is the expression by the white working class of a lot of legitimate grievances that it has with the ruling class.

The shock of Trumpism has made me rethink what the conservative movement was about and who our allies were and what our assumptions were.

Donald Trump harnessed the America First, Make America Great Again, populist, economic nationalist movement we now call Trumpism, but he did not invent it. He just was the only person resilient enough and impervious enough to elite opinion to force through its successful policies in the face of ferocious resistance.

I'm going to keep correcting people, sometimes harshly, on the disparity between conservativism and Trumpism.

McCarthyism and Trumpism are very different. They stand for very different things, but the technique of the big lie, smearing and telling lies, you know, McCarthy was doing that. At the time, the media, Democrats, and Republicans were all paralyzed - not all, but most of them were paralyzed. They didn't know how to deal with this.

The Heritage Foundation, by far the most influential think tank of the Trump era, is widely seen as a redoubt of Trumpism in large part because of the tremendous influence of the Mercers, who are major donors.

One of the more insidious features of Trumpism is that it deliberately seeks to occupy every ounce of our attention. In doing so, it aims to force our resignation to the banality of evil and the mundaneness of cruelty.

journalists will have to understand the words as meaningful and consequential. That, in turn, requires a reckoning not only with the damage Trumpism has inflicted on the public sphere but also with the conditions that made him so effective.

Buckley was often a more articulate version of the same deep ugliness and bigotry that is the hallmark of Trumpism.

American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism - Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It's not as if these things haven't always existed, and they were powerful. The big difference is Trump is president.

People are hurting and angry, and they want something to be able to stand up and fight for. That's what I believe the antidote is to Trumpism.

Trump was our last shot. I kind of thought it was Romney, and then lo and behold, like a miracle, Trump comes along. I still believe in Trumpism. I have no regrets for ferociously supporting him. What choice did we have?

Our nation marches closer to Trumpism each day, a path paved with reckless Tweets and the normalization of the ugly and the absurd.

Embedded in Trumpism is the distinction between "people" and "the people." Not all people belong to "the people." More and more people emphatically do not belong—which is why Trump's absurd claims about illegal voting resonated so powerfully.

Despite the fact that the alt-right was not dominant in the broadest popular movement that formed around Trump, some of its leaders did play a decisive role in the ideology and politics of Trumpism, thanks to their direct influence on Trump himself.

Trump could bring Trumpism down...

Jared Kushner in quite a short period of time—rather less than a year—had crossed over from the standard Democratic view in which he was raised, to an acolyte of Trumpism, bewildering many friends and, as well, his own brother, whose insurance company, Oscar, funded with Kushner-family money, was destined to be shattered by a repeal of Obamacare.

Immigration was not just Trumpism's sine qua non, it was the fundamental intellectual pillar that any dope could understand.