Matt Gaetz Quotes

In essence, populism is an illiberal democratic response to decades to decades of undemocratic liberal policies.

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

Trump was our last shot. I kind of thought it was Romney, and then lo and behold, like a miracle, Trump comes along. I still believe in Trumpism. I have no regrets for ferociously supporting him. What choice did we have?

For many Americans, Trump is the antithesis of the leftist elite.

Trump's supporters have taken over the Republican Party - not just because they like him but because they believe his approach to politics has been consistently vindicated.

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

In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him.

Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.

There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment.

The nationalist right and the nebulously but fervently revolutionary left found each other once more in Fascism with its double face of conservatism and subversion.

Le Pen is a petit bourgeois nationalist.

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.

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

Neoconservatism' once had a real meaning - back in the 1970s. But the label has now become meaningless. With many of those who are described as neocons, including me, fleeing the Trumpified right, the term's sell-by date has passed.

Most of my promos are straight out of Pat Buchanan's run for election.

American populist politics has a long tradition, from Andrew Jackson to Huey Long to Joseph McCarthy. But the politician Trump is most like could be George Wallace.

The word 'populism' was everywhere in 2016. Political leaders claiming to speak for the people have achieved significant victories in Europe, Asia, and, with the election of Donald Trump, the United States.

It's very clear that Mr. DeSantis is taking a page directly from the campaign manual of Donald Trump.

Populism, literally, means speaking for 'the people.' In practice it means demagoguery.

For there to be any redemption of a right of center conservative party in the United States of America means the party of Trump must be destroyed politically.

Conservatism accomplished a lot of its goals in the latter part of the 20th century. What does 21st-century conservatism look like?

What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a "real" America, one which predates globalization, immigration, feminism, the civil rights movement and technological change, an imaginary 1950s to which we can now return. That is actually not very different from the kind of language that Marine Le Pen uses, or parts of the Brexit movement.