Adam Hochschild Quotes

Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.

I think it's fair to say there is a demagogic path that Europeans, South Americans, Asians have pursued, and we know where that leads. It uses xenophobia, it uses paranoia, it uses prejudice, it uses nationalism to really stir people up and to, you know, begin an us-versus-them contrast, which is dangerous and is not something we've had in our politics at a presidential level in America.

Populism is dangerous.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

History shows that populism polarizes society, weakens economies, and undermined representative democracy.

Donald Trump is a fascist.

Trump was elected, in large part, to disrupt everything that the WEF represents.

Every day is morning in Trump's America!

It is the era of Trump, and I'm just not a Trump-like politician.

Donald Trump is a demagogue. Period. The fervor of his crowds recalls Nasser's Egypt. His convictions are illiberal. His manners are disgusting. His temper is frightening.

Donald Trump is about the rise of right-wing extremism, not only in this country, but in Europe.

If ever we deserved a candidate at this moment in our culture, that candidate is Donald Trump.

The two candidates have very different visions of America. Donald Trump's is very dark: Things are not going well. There are dark days ahead unless you make a change, and he's the one to fix it.

If politics is a game of shrewd and knowing men, Trump has ruined it.

The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.

The surge in right-wing populism and the phenomenon of Trump are related. You can think of them together as the same problem.

When I wrote that [Donald] Trump piece, I had this uncomfortable experience of sensing a lot of things that were nascent, that I couldn't quite articulate. And one of them was this move toward anti-intellectualism. An anti-love move, even.

I don't think Donald Trump is an ideologue, so it's not really his policies that I think are going to maybe fire people up. It's his rhetoric and, you know, his willingness to wield power in a manner that can be potentially exploitative and dangerous.

[Donald] Trump is fascism, that's all, so we have to find a way to work it out between Hillary [Clinton] and Bernie [Sanders].

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering around 30 percent. A minority, but one never all that enamored of the niceties of democracy - they see themselves as fighting for the survival of civilization, after all.

…a low and dangerous demagogue.

… becoming a very dangerous proposition…. an out and out demagogue

This country is going so far right you are not even going to recognize it.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.