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I knew Buckley - he was a friend of mine - and Steve Bannon is no William F. Buckley. Buckley marginalized the kooks. Bannon empowered them.
Charlie Sykes
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Reagan did not have to rely on or cope with talk radio, Fox News, Breitbart, or any of the other trolls that now dominate conservative politics.
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I think of John McCain as a conservative, but he is clearly not the same kind of 'conservative' as, say, Rand Paul. The word is close to losing almost all meaning.
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I don't think Trump is a conservative. I think he is a man without any fixed principles. And to the extent he does have any ideology, it owes far more to European-style National Front right-wing politics than to American conservatism.
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There was always the paranoid strain in American politics, particularly on the Right.
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I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes.
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The shock of Trumpism has made me rethink what the conservative movement was about and who our allies were and what our assumptions were.
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I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.
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After 2008, I told people that conservatives were going to be invisible for a while. But, with time, our ideas would be back.
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It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.
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It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest.
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I'm still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution.
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