America Quote by Bret Stephens

Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate with Reagan.

— Sam Tanenhaus

I think that conservatism as we understand it is coming under great strain during the era of Trump.

— Matthew Continetti

David Frum has been saying - [Donald] Trump is all about conservatism as identity, not conservatism as ideology.

— Chris Hayes

I think, when you see kind of dysfunction among the Democrats of the Republicans, it impacts the whole country: the way we feel about…

— Juan Williams

I think a lot of voters have certain cognitive dissidence. Donald Trump is getting social conservatives, economic conservatives, some Libertarian, some supply side conservatives,…

— Roger Stone

The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.

— Bret Stephens

Ronald Reagan came to office and had already been an experienced politician as governor of California, whose ideology and ideas, no matter how simplistic…

— David Remnick

Of course there are different forms of conservatism. I would say just analytically that the Republican Party is more thoroughly conservative and the Democratic…

— William Kristol

Conservatism accomplished a lot of its goals in the latter part of the 20th century. What does 21st-century conservatism look like?

— Steve Schmidt

I don't think Trump is a conservative. I think he is a man without any fixed principles. And to the extent he does have…

— Charlie Sykes

Trump is a hybrid phenomenon as I see it. He is somewhat like UKIP and Le Pen with his right-wing populism that espouses some…

— John Bellamy Foster

I do think Donald Trump has conservative instincts. I think he had anti-Obama instincts. I think he saw Obamacare, the Obama foreign policy, the…

— Matt Schlapp