One of the surprises to me was the willingness of many people in the conservative media to roll over, to abandon long-held conservative principles, and to embrace Donald Trump. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
I don't think Trump is a conservative. I think he is a man without any fixed principles. And to the extent he does have any ideology, it owes far more to European-style National Front right-wing politics than to American conservatism. — 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
