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“The problem is that Republicans have purposefully torn down the validating institutions,” says the political journalist Josh Barro, a Republican until 2016. “They have…

— Kurt Andersen

Gun control and the specifics of it, like immigration, it's not really about the substance when it comes to RINO Republicans supporting it. It…

— Rush Limbaugh

For years, Republicans have effectively outsourced their thought leadership to the loudmouths at the end of the bar. But perhaps the most extreme example…

— Charlie Sykes

There's a political party in America that has an almost fanatical opposition to even the most minimal standards of gun safety - and that's…

— Ritchie Torres

“Today's Republican Party...is an insurgent outlier. It has become ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded…

— Thomas E. Mann

Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge.

— David Ignatius

Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their constituents to…

— Chris Murphy

The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“Let’s face it: The Republican Party is no longer a broad-based conservative party in the historically accepted sense. It is an oligarchy with a…

— Mike Lofgren

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

— Mao Zedong

The impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people. In the case of the Republican Party, those things…

— Jeff Flake

Whenever there's a tragedy involving gun use, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, the gun-control lobby and the news media seize it as another opportunity to…

— Walter E. Williams