Balls Quote by Kevin Drum

The Democratic political juggernaut that emerged from the Depression and the New Deal meant that Republicans had to scramble to figure out a way…

— Heather Cox Richardson

What's happened is the Republicans have been smart.

— Collin Peterson

The day after the Republican convention ended, there was another political bomb that was dropped on the U.S. presidential election [2016] from Russia. The…

— Rachel Maddow

The Democrats were crushed in the midterm elections. The Republican juggernaut pounded the Democrats, and the pundits say they will not really know what…

— David Letterman

“when the moderates were driven out, the radicals moved in,”

— James A. Michener

Republicans turned against organized workers and abandoned the idea of promoting equality at the bottom of the economic scale. They turned their idea of…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Only a few years after building a federal system that cleared the way for equal opportunity, Republicans faced a racist and xenophobic backlash against…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Riding a wave of anti-establishment and anti-Obama anger, Tea Party candidates knocked off Democrats and Republicans alike.

— Harry Enten

Once upon a time, it was the Democrats who claimed to be the party of the working man. No longer. They abandoned the working…

— Corey Stewart

Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.

— Charles Michel

I think this is a moment where Donald Trump recognized the Republican establishment was much weaker, the party leaders were much weaker than they…

— Ben Domenech

Jeb Bush brought it up at the debate and he was doing it very well, and all of a sudden, I don't know what…

— Donald Trump