Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic position… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
The story of the Republican Party is of a far-right that has moved from the fringes of the party to a complete… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
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… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
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… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
On Obamacare, every day that goes by I have more evidence that I wish I could put in my book, on how difficult it… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
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… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
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… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
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… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
