Clowning Quote by Jonathan Chait

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

We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.

— Jonathan Chait

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…

— Jonathan Chait

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

In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition.

— Jonathan Chait

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

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

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

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

Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

— Jonathan Chait

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…

— Jonathan Chait

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

— Jonathan Chait