Trump has a lot of authoritarian tendencies that need to be a serious concern. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
At best, Trumpism will be a more right-wing version of the same old Republican Party. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance. — 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
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
In public, Barack Obama's giving the simple version of his beliefs for the mass public. In private, he can discuss it at… — 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
Barack Obama is pretty similar to the person you see in public, at press conferences. He's a little saltier, a little more… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
In the long run, however much damage we come through, Obama's vision is the one that's going to be left standing. It's… — 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,… — 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… — 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… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
One of the things we've learned during the Obama era is how important norms are, because we've seen how the Republican Party… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
It's absolutely true that people who believed Hillary Clinton would be a decent or even strong nominee need to think why that… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Obama took 20 million people from the category of ignorables and put them into the category of unignorables. No one had to… — 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… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
It's possible that Trump will have success by staging jobs theatre, rather than creating jobs. It's the inverse of what Obama did:… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
The Republicans' response to Obama confused a lot of people. I really think there's been a measure of clarity at the end,… — 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
We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Obama took 20 million people from the category of ignorables and put them into the category of unignorables. No one had to do anything… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share
