Kristen Soltis Anderson Quotes

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

People don't trust party leaders.

People ask me about if, being a Republican, you guys want to cut everything and stop everything and not help people. I find that patently false.

The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

Republicans tend to be grumpy old men.

Even if Donald Trump's successful, it's the beginning of the end if this rhetoric persists in the Republican Party.

Let's think about where things stood in December 2015. By that time, Republicans had already had such epic and long-standing struggles with young people that I'd written a whole book about it. Additionally, Republicans had already had a bruising start to their primary season.

At 80 million, millennials, born between 1980 and 2000, are the largest generation in history. Yet they are a demographic Congress has historically either taken for granted or ignored altogether.

People are sick of the false choice between the established political parties who take voters for granted.

Maybe President Trump will turn out to be a fabulously successful president who will endear the millennial generation to the Right anew.

Trump is playing to an audience of people who think of themselves less as Republicans and more as Americans - moderates, conservatives, and independents - who feel that the Republican Party has completely ignored their priorities and beliefs and insulted them along the way.

I think sometimes with politics, young people especially have become disillusioned with it, because they can't relate to it, there's a lot of snobbery and people are a lot older.

The one thing I think we learned this year is that the Democrats and the Republicans are completely worthless.

Anybody who doesn't support the Republican nominee... is a RINO.

I'm out of the Republican Party. I'm fed up.

Either people are changing their minds about Trump, or increasing numbers of his supporters are deciding it is too embarrassing to admit they support him. Neither is a particularly good position to be in.

The real problem with the Republican Party is that for decades it has shifted constantly to the right politically. Consequently, the Republican Party is picking up a very different demographic than it used to, a less well-educated demographic of people who are more prone to authoritarianism.

Most Republicans in California are tired of fighting the one-party rule from the Left and have given up on state politics.

Again and again, people get more conservative as they get older.

Brexit and Trump are a generational revenge. This may partly be against millennial certainty and superiority, and, indeed, ageism; and it may be a natural part of population dynamics - not only are more people getting far older than ever before, but they are older for longer than they are young.

Republicans are scared of the NRA. They're scared of the Tea Party.

Why do millennials like Bernie Sanders so much? I love that this is a mystery to Washington. It's the authenticity, stupid.

They say that the older you get, the more conservative you become: perhaps that's the reason there are no Tories in Scotland.

A lot of Democrats like to play the 'If we were Republicans' game. I usually hate it; I don't want to behave like the Republicans do.

I don't think Donald Trump represents the Republican Party... I think more and more people are going to realize that they really don't trust him.