Checks and balances Quote by Andrew McCarthy

“Do Americans still broadly believe that a president’s gradual assumption of dictatorial power must be halted? That the constitutional equilibrium of divided authorities balancing…

— Andrew McCarthy

“the president-elect spoke with little information and frequently no factual basis, while “the frame the media has chosen to embrace is that everything the…

— Michael Wolff

In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.

— Shimon Peres

“In their propaganda today’s dictators rely for the most part on repetition, suppression and rationalization—the repetition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted…

— Aldous Huxley

“Before Bush, I used to think that the choice of president really didn’t matter, that the system kind of ran on its own- that…

— Ron Howard

The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

— Noam Chomsky

“Trump’s political career would have been impossible without the degradation of the whole idea of the public sphere, which has been unfolding over decades.…

— Naomi Klein

“The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and understates the power of reality crafted…

— George Friedman

“The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the…

— Sara Sheridan

“Popular disregard, even disdain, for demonstrable truth is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.”

— Gordy Slack

“A political system that is all checks and balances is potentially no more successful than one with no checks, because governments periodically need strong…

— Francis Fukuyama

“In more recent testimony he added, “The president has in fact exceeded his authority in a way that is creating a destabilizing influence in…

— Andrew McCarthy