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In campaigns, the attacks that candidates make against their opponents define them almost as much as their positive agenda by creating a negative narrative…

— Neera Tanden

The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left.…

— David Brock

As the Right doubles down on anti-anti-Trumpism, it will find itself goaded into defending and rationalizing ever more outrageous conduct just as long as…

— Charlie Sykes

“But on a more pedestrian level, he found it difficult for most right-wingers to talk about any subject about which they felt strongly without…

— John W. Dean

I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was…

— Christopher Hitchens

I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.

— Janeane Garofalo

“Name-calling, insult, ridicule, guilt by association, caricature, innuendo, accusation, denunciation, negative ads, and deceptive and manipulative videos have replaced deliberation and debate. Neither side…

— Os Guinness

Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

— Gary Bauer

I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.

— Marco Rubio

“The left loses most policy debates, leading them to engage in the politics of personal destruction. Many liberals do not see conservatives as human,…

— Eric Golub

When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation. Instead of…

— Don Feder

“The left no longer makes arguments about policies’ effectiveness. Their only argument is character assassination.”

— Ben Shapiro