Ross Douthat Quotes

The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding.

I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

You do not compromise with the right wing of the Republican party.

When a president, as Trump does, demonises opponents as an un-American mob trying to destroy the country, it is not a lunatic who tries to harm them, it is a patriot.

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.

UKIP's biggest fight is with the Conservative Party.

If it comes to it, I am not going to stay in a party which has been taken over by the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson. They are not proper Conservatives.

The Right doesn't usually threaten to leave the country. When the Right feels threatened, it just declares it is going to invent a time machine to take the country back so that America can be 'great again.'

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.

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.

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.

We are America. They [Democrats] are not America.

This President [Ronald Reagan] makes us comfortable with our prejudices.