Michael Gerson Quotes

I see particular commonalities in the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

Believe me, if Donald Trump didn't have some point that he's making, hitting home with people, he could not have come this far - as much as a showman as he may be.

It was pretty evident, I think, the direction the country was going, and that's why I think Donald Trump offered such a clear alternative to that from Hillary Clinton.

I don't apologize for supporting Trump. He said all the right things, and nobody else would even say it. I suppose it's possible that another politician who really meant it would come along. There's Kris Kobach, Tom Cotton, Jeff Sessions... there are probably a handful of politicians.

UKIP's biggest fight is with the Conservative Party.

Once upon a time - in the days of Margaret Thatcher and John Major - I would have rejoiced in a Conservative Party landslide in Britain. But now, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's victory fills me with fear and foreboding.

I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.

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

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.

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?

We are fighting the communal BJP on the one hand and the corrupt Congress on the other.

While Corbyn would not enjoy the comparison, he and Farage are the same beast - with very different heads.

Brexit has acted as a catalyst encouraging more people to think and vote outside of traditional party loyalties.

Trump is a man who, for better or worse, stands in opposition to the institutions that dominate American political life.

Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, is a true populist; Senator Bernie Sanders, the former U.S. presidential candidate who campaigned for Hillary Clinton after losing his battle for the Democratic Party's nomination, is not.

Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.

It's a very beautiful word, populism. I'm proud to be a populist.

You see it with Brexit, you see it in Donald Trump's election, you see it with the fact that neither of the main parties ended up in the final round of the French presidential election, you see it with the Italian referendum being defeated, you see it in a lot of ways - the political revolution.

Putin has made a habit of supporting far-right candidates who undermine his foes in Europe; perhaps he never could have imagined such a character taking root on American soil. Trump's reasons for aligning with Putin have been more innocent, if no less dangerous.

The difference between the BNP and Labour is that the BNP was always a fringe party, never a contender for power.

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.

I've spent my whole life fighting for leftwing causes, so I can tell you, no one is more surprised than me to be standing as candidate for Nigel Farage's Brexit party.

Flanked on both sides, organized forces on the Left and the Right have made every effort to topple Trump, but these efforts have only served to embolden him and broaden his support.

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