The N.R.A. has effectively turned itself into the Id of the Right. — Charlie Sykes Effectively Copy Share Image
I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes. — Charlie Sykes Conservative Copy Share Image
In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished. — Charlie Sykes Act Copy Share Image
Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students. — Charlie Sykes Education Copy Share Image
Reagan did not have to rely on or cope with talk radio, Fox News, Breitbart, or any of the other trolls that… — Charlie Sykes Conservative Copy Share Image
It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest. — Charlie Sykes Fight Copy Share Image
The GOP was once the party of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and John McCain. — Charlie Sykes John Copy Share Image
We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not. — Charlie Sykes Actually 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… — Charlie Sykes Burn Copy Share Image
After 2008, I told people that conservatives were going to be invisible for a while. But, with time, our ideas would be back. — Charlie Sykes Back Copy Share Image
The shock of Trumpism has made me rethink what the conservative movement was about and who our allies were and what our… — Charlie Sykes Assumptions Copy Share Image
When it became clear that I was going to remain #NeverTrump, conservatives I had known and worked with for more than two… — Charlie Sykes Clear Copy Share Image
We would naturally prefer not to reckon with the worst of what people do or say on the margins, but we have… — Charlie Sykes Action 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… — Charlie Sykes Conservative 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… — Charlie Sykes American Copy Share Image
For decades, conservatives have struggled with containing crackpottery, most notably William F. Buckley's famous excommunication of the John Birch Society in the… — Charlie Sykes 1960s 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… — Charlie Sykes Alike 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… — Charlie Sykes Could Copy Share Image
White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would… — Charlie Sykes America Copy Share Image
Despite the evidence that we already have too many students in higher education, the hot new idea among the political class is… — Charlie Sykes College tuition Copy Share Image
I feel dumber every time I listen to Sean Hannity. I don't want to be that guy. — Charlie Sykes Dumber Copy Share Image
I am less horrified by Trump himself than by what he has done to the rationalizers and enablers. — Charlie Sykes Am Copy Share Image
Both the Left and the Right need to connect as people rather than as political entities. — Charlie Sykes Left Copy Share Image
Victimism can be seen as a generalized cultural impulse to deny personal responsibility and to obsess on the grievances of the insatiable… — Charlie Sykes Identity Copy Share Image
You know something that you'll never hear on one of these cable talking-head shows? One of the guests going, 'Hmm, I don't… — Charlie Sykes Going Copy Share Image
At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy… — Charlie Sykes Academia 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 Congress 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 Difficult Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler. — Charlie Sykes Child Copy Share Image
It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by… — Charlie Sykes Competition Copy Share Image
There was always the paranoid strain in American politics, particularly on the Right. — Charlie Sykes Always Copy Share Image
It has almost become a cliche that we are a polarized country, but the reality runs deeper. — Charlie Sykes Become Copy Share Image
I'm still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution. — Charlie Sykes Conservative 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… — Charlie Sykes Barack obama Copy Share Image
I knew Buckley - he was a friend of mine - and Steve Bannon is no William F. Buckley. Buckley marginalized the… — Charlie Sykes Friend Copy Share Image
I have long admired Paul Ryan and thought of him as the future of the Republican Party. — Charlie Sykes Future Copy Share Image
To finally reform higher education, we should start by asking fundamental questions, such as, Why does it take four years to get… — Charlie Sykes Education Copy Share Image
Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter. — Charlie Sykes Better Copy Share Image
