American history Quote by Jonathan Chait Download Open image “Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.” — Jonathan Chait ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare American history History Jokes Tragedy Trump
There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history. — George Packer Copy Share Image
We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is a true… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a disaster. He is a bully who doesn't have the curiosity to understand the issues; he contradicts himself repeatedly; his views… — Haim Saban Copy Share Image
To say Donald Trump would be a disaster for our country, our democracy, and our future would be doing a grave disservice to the… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican or a conservative, the election of Trump is a national tragedy for multiple reasons.… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one. — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
Given [Donald] Trump's surprising recent election as president of the United States, his fate and that of the Bomb are about to become seriously… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
In public, Barack Obama's giving the simple version of his beliefs for the mass public. In private, he can discuss it at a really… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Because many people remembered a time when the Republican Party was not so extreme, and hadn't full grasped how much it had changed, people blamed Obama for his failure to get Republicans to agree with him. That blame coloured so much of how the public saw Obama during his presidency. The public thought he was dealing with a brand of… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share
On Obamacare, every day that goes by I have more evidence that I wish I could put in my book, on how difficult it… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
It's possible that the clowning and the buffoonery and the entertainment are a bigger part of what's happening than we've allowed. And that Trump… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That's certain… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
It's pretty clear that Hillary Clinton was a deeply, deeply flawed alternative. She had the wrong combination of the internal political chops to muscle out all the mainstream nominations from the field, leaving only Bernie Sanders, who was unacceptable to the Democrats' party establishment. But she also had a real lack of political skill that would enable her to win… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share
We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and the position of the Afro- American or negro in American history. [He] has done a remarkable job in fighting for rights of black people in this country. On the other hand, he probably hasn't done as… — Malcolm X Copy Share
“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum in Concepción, Chile. These skulls were originally discovered on Isla Mocha, which is located 25 miles off the south-central coast of Chile. Since some of them have definite telltale signs of being Polynesian, the strong suggestion… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share
John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn,… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
“Thanks in part to the rapid mechanization of cotton production in the early 1940s, which ultimately threw millions of farm laborers out of work, and in part to the opening up of industrial employment in the North during the wartime boom, roughly a million blacks (along with even more whites) moved from the South during the 1940s. Another 1.5 million… — James T. Patterson Copy Share
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the… — Harold Washington Copy Share Image
Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power - not by a longshot. But he has to be the first president in American history to overtly and consistently argue that he's empowered to legislate if Congress doesn'€™t pass the laws he favors. It's an argument… — David Harsanyi Copy Share
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