Associates Quote by Sam Tanenhaus

I think a Donald Trump presidency raises a new kind of version of conservatism which more closely resembles a kind of Father Coughlin, America…

— Bret Stephens

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

— Matthew Continetti

I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.

— Bill Kristol

Ronald Reagan comes out of nowhere, at least as far as these people are concerned in the establishment. I'm telling you, back in 1980,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft and through a tremendous level of effort toward…

— Eugene Jarecki

Movement Conservatism was a fringe force from the 1950s until the 1980s, when voters elected Movement Conservative Ronald Reagan to the White House. But…

— Heather Cox Richardson

I don't think Donald Trump is Ronald Reagan.

— Stanley Druckenmiller

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

— Chris Hayes

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness…

— Vladimir Putin

Trump is not a conservative and has no conservative agenda. If elected president, he would not govern as the second coming of Ronald Reagan.

— Tom Tancredo

In certain quarters, conservatism is simply racism by another name. And minorities who openly identify themselves as conservatives are still novelties, fish out of…

— Shelby Steele

Reagan has been deified by the Republican Party, which is odd. The Reagan that modern Republicans revere is not the real Reagan.

— H. W. Brands