Experienced Difficult Quotes by Charlie Sykes

Mr. Trump understands that attacking the media is the reddest of meat for his base, which has been conditioned to reject reporting from news…

— Charlie Sykes

Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.

— Charlie Sykes

In 2008, conservatives ridiculed the Left for its adulation of Barack Obama, only to succumb to their own cult of personality eight years later.

— Charlie Sykes

It turns out that many of the Trump voters who had said they wanted to burn it all down meant it, and they are…

— Charlie Sykes

In 2010, conservatives won big majorities in the Wisconsin State Legislature, and I openly supported many of their reforms, including changes to collective bargaining…

— Charlie Sykes

There was a time when the Republican Party could discuss possible reforms to our gun laws: Ronald Reagan himself endorsed the Brady Bill and…

— Charlie Sykes

I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who…

— Charlie Sykes

Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch.

— Charlie Sykes

I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler.

— Charlie Sykes

Unless you have experienced it, it's difficult to describe the virulence of the Twitter storms that were unleashed on Trump skeptics.

— Charlie Sykes

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…

— Charlie Sykes

There was always the paranoid strain in American politics, particularly on the Right.

— Charlie Sykes