Matthew Continetti Quotes

In terms of the conservative movement, I do think it would be foolish to deny that Trump has exposed certain aspects of that movement as less healthy than I thought or hoped.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

The bottom line is, there're a lot of conservatives that don't feel Donald Trump is conservative, right? Or, he's not their brand of conservatism... and there's a lot of people who don't have a seat on the inside who used to have a seat on the inside.

As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become.

The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.

It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.

I'm as conservative as they come.

The Tea Party has won. There simply isn’t that much difference between the establishment Republicans anymore, and if grassroots chalengers are loosing more races, it’s because they’ve succeeded in yanking the party far enough to the right that there isn’t any more space for them to fill.

In America today, unfortunately, the right wing has been totally commandeered by the Tea Party, and it's a bad thing for our party.

The Tea Party isn't out to be a third force in American politics. Instead, it has infiltrated the Republicans and remoulded them in its own image.

Look, I'm a conservative, I'm a very conservative guy, and - and the Trump campaign is making your job over at NBC really, really, really easy in terms of going after conservatives and Republicans if he's the standard bearer for conservatism.

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.

I think it's been time for a new party. I think it's time for two new parties. If you watch the Democratic convention, that has become a socialist party now.

[Phyllis Schlaffley and Pat Buchanan and Jeff Sessions] do know conservatism, but I think they are wrong.

The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party.

The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.

I think there's going to be an obligation to show that Trumpism is not a complete equivalent for GOP.

That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign.