For years, Republicans have effectively outsourced their thought leadership to the loudmouths at the end of the bar. But perhaps the most extreme example of that trend has been the issue of guns, where the party has ceded control to… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
Unless you have experienced it, it's difficult to describe the virulence of the Twitter storms that were unleashed on Trump skeptics. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There was always the paranoid strain in American politics, particularly on the Right. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
I have long admired Paul Ryan and thought of him as the future of the Republican Party. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
Across the country, universities that had abandoned in loco parentis in the 1960s because it was too oppressive and intrusive have replaced it with… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
