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
Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students. — Charlie Sykes How 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
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
In 2010, conservatives won big majorities in the Wisconsin State Legislature, and I openly supported many of their reforms, including changes to… — Charlie Sykes Big 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
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
Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch. — Charlie Sykes Executive branch 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
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
Conservatives spent an awful long time ignoring things: the birthers, the bigots, the xenophobes, the alternative-reality media. We had assumed that they… — Charlie Sykes Ignoring Copy Share Image
There was always the paranoid strain in American politics, particularly on the Right. — Charlie Sykes Always Copy Share Image
In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished. — Charlie Sykes Act 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
Across the country, universities that had abandoned in loco parentis in the 1960s because it was too oppressive and intrusive have replaced… — Charlie Sykes 1960s Copy Share Image
In our era of zero tolerance, I would surely have spent most of elementary and middle school shuttling between suspensions and expulsions,… — Charlie Sykes Education 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
With a vast majority of conservative voters and listeners solidly behind Mr. Trump, conservative critics of the president find themselves isolated and… — Charlie Sykes Conservative Copy Share Image
If a university announced that henceforth, it would be offering a three-year bachelor's degree, in one stroke it would cut the cost… — Charlie Sykes College 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
Reagan wrote out many of his radio commentaries and newspaper articles as well as many of his own speeches. He wrote poetry,… — Charlie Sykes Letters Copy Share Image
In many ways, anti-anti-Trumpism mirrors Donald Trump himself because, at its core there are no fixed values, no respect for constitutional government… — Charlie Sykes Character Copy Share Image
The N.R.A.'s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks - devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster - is designed to pre-empt anything… — Charlie Sykes Action 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
Both the Left and the Right need to connect as people rather than as political entities. — Charlie Sykes Need Copy Share Image
