Bari Weiss Quotes

The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.

As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective.

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?

Donald Trump appeals to the worst fears of Americans at a time we need unity, not division. Republicans are deeply divided by a man who is perilously close to gaining the most powerful position in the world, and many rightly see him as a real threat to our Republic.

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

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

Donald Trump is a fascist.

The Republican Party has lost its way. We have given in to nativism and protectionism. It is not enough to be a conservative any more.... You have to be viscious. We have away the limited government mantle when we spent like crazy when we had the majority ...

What too many of Mr. Trump's supporters want is an American strongman, a president who will make the proverbial trains run on time.

Trump's pronounced anti-immigrant stance is reminiscent of both Le Pen in France and Orban in Hungary, although he is far from alone in taking such positions in much of today's Republican Party.

The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy. I don't think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump.

Our nation marches closer to Trumpism each day, a path paved with reckless Tweets and the normalization of the ugly and the absurd.

I'm still on the Trump train.

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's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.

It's important that Donald Trump and what he represents - this kind of ethnic, quote, 'conservatism,' or populism - be so decisively rebuked that the Republican Party, the Republican voters will forever learn their lesson that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape, or form.

The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.

Republicans today have given the country conservatism in the spirit of Sarah Palin, whose ignorance about the world, contempt for expertise, and raw appeals to white identity politics presaged Trump's incendiary campaign.

Donald Trump has fundamentally realigned American politics. It's time the media acknowledge this and give him the credit he deserves.

The future of the Republican Party should be tapping into... the feeling of belonging and meaning and pride that comes with being part of this whole 'America First' movement.

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

The old Republican Party is gone. It's now Trump's party.

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.

Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.