John Avlon Quotes

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• A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid…
• First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more…
• I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their…
• One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
• We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.
• Godwin's law states that the longer any online debate goes on, the likelier it is that someone will play the Nazi card. It's the rhetorical…
• If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.
• Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
• Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
• The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.
• The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
• When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.
• What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority…
• It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded…
• I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama…
• Politics is history in the present tense.
• Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.
• Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.
• The far-right and far-left can be equally insane.

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