Trump Quotes by Jamelle Bouie

Donald Trump runs on fear.

— Jamelle Bouie

Trumpism' is a politics of racial demagoguery.

— Jamelle Bouie

Rhetoric matters, and what candidates say is not simply for show.

— Jamelle Bouie

Hillary Clinton made plenty of tactical and strategic missteps in her bid for the White House.

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To vote in the United States, you can't simply go cast a ballot.

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For many millions of Americans, time seemed to move differently under President Donald Trump. There was no breathing room - no calm…

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The myth of Donald Trump is that he is immune to scandal - that there's nothing he could say or do that…

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This vision of Trump as tribune of the 'real America' has trickled down from Trump's most devoted acolytes to the rest of…

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When it became clear to Vance that Trump was the only game in town on his side of the aisle, he did…

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On op-ed pages and around dinner tables, Americans have substantive conversations about politics. And while the facts aren't always right, the discussion…

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After embracing the Republican congressional agenda, Trump can't run on building infrastructure and protecting retirement programs. But he still has racism.

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Most of the time, when their standard-bearers can't close the deal with the voting public, American political parties move on.

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We don't live in a party system where political parties have that kind of control of authority or authority over the people…

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Trump does not gain strength with every attempt to place limits on his behavior. Accountability does not jolt him into political action.…

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The Republican Party never moved on from Nixon's 'silent majority,' from the notion that it alone represents the supposedly authentic people of…

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Trump ran as the embodiment of the legitimate people of the United States. He governed on behalf of those people - a…

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In states where Republicans have gerrymandered themselves into nearly impenetrable legislative majorities, they have also taken steps to try to close the…

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The drama of any election night often obscures the banal reality behind voting. Even when winners and losers are clear, it takes…

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It is normal for political parties to be vigilant and aggressive about their electoral interests. But Trump and the GOP have gone…

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Everything that made Trump a bad president the first time around promises to make him an even worse one in a second…

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Our system has adopted universal suffrage, which points toward open and easy access to the ballot, but our heritage in political exclusivity…

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I'm not someone who thinks that Joe Biden is going to somehow drop dead in the middle of being president.

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Donald Trump is often derided as a man of impulse and ego without conviction or belief. This is true on most questions…

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Before Barack Obama's election in 2008, the relationship between white racial views and partisanship wasn't as clear-cut as one might think.

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American presidents are moral leaders and role models as much as they're political leaders and heads of state - they are meant…

— Jamelle Bouie

Trump obviously believes his strategy of riling voters up with bigotry is effective. What's striking is the political press agrees with him.

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With or without Trump, a Republican Party that cannot share this country with its political opponents is a Republican Party that will…

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Trump was not helped by either of his impeachments, and there's no reason other than his own mythology to think that a…

— Jamelle Bouie

Voter identification laws are tied to a sordid history of discrimination and vote suppression, but even procedures as uncontroversial as voter registration…

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In the years since he came on the scene as the author of a best-selling memoir, Vance has transformed himself from a…

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If Trump wins a second term, there is a real chance that it will empower presidential lawlessness of a kind that no…

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The transformation of the GOP into a parliamentary-style party primarily responsive to donors, right-wing activists, and conservative media is arguably the central…

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At the level of state politics, Republican-led legislatures and Republican executive officials are adopting a politics of expulsion that targets sexual minorities…

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Trump is a glorified bully. And like all bullies, he wilts in the face of anyone willing to stand up and say…

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Nineteenth-century American politics were notoriously raucous, with frequent violence in and around elections.

— Jamelle Bouie

Stoking white fear and resentment works well enough to energize a powerful electoral coalition and secure critical victories, and unless Democrats can…

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Political parties do not want to win solely for the sake of winning; they want to win so that their coalition can…

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America in the age of Donald Trump is more permissive of explicit racism than it's been at any point since the civil…

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The Trump campaign's promise to detain and deport millions of immigrants, along with many American citizens, is a promise to plunge the…

— Jamelle Bouie

If Trump wants to serve a second term in the Oval Office, he needs to persuade the same voters who denied him…

— Jamelle Bouie