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> [It's possible that the clowning and the buffoonery and the entertainment are a bigger part of what's happening than we've allowed. And that Trump is primarily an entertainer who wants ratings, and an undisciplined speaker, and it will all be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/it-s-possible-that-the-clowning-and-the-buffoonery-and-the/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

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> [There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/there-s-an-element-of-clowning-and-entertainment-to-trump-that-makes/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

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## More by Jonathan Chait

> [In public, Barack Obama's giving the simple version of his beliefs for the mass public. In private, he can discuss it at a really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/in-public-barack-obama-s-giving-the-simple-version-of-his-beliefs-for/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

> [We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/we-re-not-going-to-be-living-in-a-world-of-abundant-coal-power-in-a/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/because-many-people-remembered-a-time-when-the-republican-party-was/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

> [On Obamacare, every day that goes by I have more evidence that I wish I could put in my book, on how difficult it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/on-obamacare-every-day-that-goes-by-i-have-more-evidence-that-i-wish/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

> [In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/in-some-ways-trump-is-just-going-to-continue-the-trend-by-continuing/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

> [It's possible that the clowning and the buffoonery and the entertainment are a bigger part of what's happening than we've allowed. And that Trump…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/it-s-possible-that-the-clowning-and-the-buffoonery-and-the/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

> [That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That's certain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/that-s-an-important-obama-accomplishment-he-raised-taxes-back-to-bill/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

> [President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/president-obama-is-so-much-smarter-and-a-better-communicator-than/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

> [Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/trump-was-the-logical-outcome-of-the-republican-s-irrational/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

> [Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/republicans-fighting-back-against-changes-obama-made-means-those/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

> [It's pretty clear that Hillary Clinton was a deeply, deeply flawed alternative. She had the wrong combination of the internal political chops to muscle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/it-s-pretty-clear-that-hillary-clinton-was-a-deeply-deeply-flawed/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

> [We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/we-re-not-going-to-be-living-in-a-world-where-white-identity-politics/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

> [Barack Obama is an intellectual.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/barack-obama-is-an-intellectual/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

> [Obama took 20 million people from the category of ignorables and put them into the category of unignorables. No one had to do anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/obama-took-20-million-people-from-the-category-of-ignorables-and-put/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

> [I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-chait/i-never-thought-hillary-clinton-was-a-very-good-politician/)

[Jonathan Chait](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-chait/)

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