As our politics have become more polarized, the essential loyalties shift from ideas to parties to tribes to individuals. Nothing else ultimately matters. — 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
