Hampton Sides Quotes

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.

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

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.

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

So, a lot of my supporters back home are members of the Tea Party.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard.

The Tea Party elites believe government is evil. Everything about government is bad, and they blame all problems, even non-economic problems, problems that were caused by the private sector, on government.

Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right.

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?

In the U.S., the conspiracy theory subculture has been hijacked by the Right to try to take down people like Obama and put forward rightwing libertarianism.

I think that the tea party, grassroots ideology will win every time.

There's very widespread grassroots support for Donald Trump, one that Republicans have not seen before.

I am a defender of the Tea Party.

I feel like Americans have always studied nationalism as a foreign phenomenon. And now, we've got a nationalist movement in our country that has a very articulate spokesman in the senior counselor to the president [Donald Trump].

Conservatives have welcomed Trump's attacks on the establishment, have cheered his boldness, and have applauded his courage. He has taken on hitherto taboo issues like immigration enforcement and has demonstrated the hollowness of what passes for conventional wisdom.

Right-wing in Holland is to the Left of the Tories in England.

UKIP's biggest fight is with the Conservative Party.

Le Pen is a petit bourgeois nationalist.

People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it.

When it comes to explaining the phenomenon of right-wing populism, liberals are likely to argue both that the populist era has exposed a darkness always present at the heart of conservative politics and that a toxic, post-truth new-media ecosystem has greased the skids for President Trump, Brexit and the rest.

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

I like to call the Republicans the Christian Brotherhood of the U.S. so that my fellow Americans recognise the line that connects their mix of religion and politics with their Muslim equivalent in Egypt.

I don't pass the Tea Party's purity test.

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