Words matter. These are the best Ben Domenech Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It is a common thing for supporters of President Trump, even as early as when he was a candidate, to say, ‘He fights.’ And yes, he does fight. He fights everyone. He gets into all kinds of scraps that are pointless and unnecessary. He insults when he doesn’t need to.
Conservative voters will put up with a lot of things in the culture that disagree with their views. They have proven time and again they will roll their eyes at actors and musicians saying negative things about the presidents and candidates they vote for and still consume their product.
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.
I have seen a man charged with revolutionizing incredibly complex government information technology systems who did not know how to use a thumb drive.
We saw a true wave election in 2010 for Republicans. There was no such repudiation offered by Resistance Democrats in 2018.
Throughout the history of America, we have been a nation driven by the idea of the frontier – a place where law was slim and liberty was enormous, where you could make your way in the world based on your own ambition and abilities, not fenced in by the limitations of society.
American policymaking in the Islamic world must begin with a foundation of respect for Muslims, especially when they tell us about their faith.
Trump knows where his strengths exist, and he is emphatically in favor of doubling down on them. This goes far beyond appointing Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
Scarcity of quarterback talent ought to inspire innovation in a sport that desperately needs it.
Reviewing Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’ presents a challenge for those of us tired of a media environment where the dominant voices consistently try to have it both ways.
‘The Federalist’ is a small staff, and our close-knit family of senior contributors outwork our competition because of that closeness.
Politics is downstream from culture.
One of the frequent blind spots for economic libertarians, speaking as one who has personally dealt with this log in the eye, is a tendency to allow principles of how economies work and the beauty of trade to make us ignore perceived threats animating people who value more than just the power to buy and sell.
Belief that your tribe is good and other tribes are evil is what everyone thought for most of human history.
I know that charges of plagiarism are serious.
It used to be you could just write vaguely conservative things while running a Starbucks – now, you can’t.
Being a bureaucrat means never having to say you’re sorry.
I grew up watching ‘The Lone Ranger.’ I would get up every Saturday morning, earlier than all the other kids, to watch a black and white western with Clayton Moore that hadn’t filmed a new episode since 1957.
When contrarian voices are elevated to publications once viewed as places where contending ideas shared space, organized online backlash is now inevitable.
The government in Havana is best understood as a cross between violent left-wing radicals and organized crime.
It is unhealthy to live in an environment where every aspect of our culture requires a great sort, where creative talents are for some but not for all, and where performing for the president of the United States becomes a point of regular and significant controversy.
Engaging in a sycophantic way with any politician in the short term is tempting. It offers the lure of access and the promise of influence. But ultimately, it can lead to misreading the environment, giving too much of an ear to the politician’s circle, and confining your audience to partisans.
For years, the NFL was the one league apparently immune from ratings downturns of any significance.
Trump’s rise was contingent on wide swaths of the country completely tuning out so-called mainstream media sources, while all too many outlets did a poor job covering 2016.
Trump is playing to an audience of people who think of themselves less as Republicans and more as Americans – moderates, conservatives, and independents – who feel that the Republican Party has completely ignored their priorities and beliefs and insulted them along the way.
Ever since the 1980s and the Moral Majority, evangelicals have been loyal to the Republican Party, giving their votes in return for promises on abortion, family, and other arenas of policy which promised them protection for their churches and their priorities.
One of the things I endeavor to remind people of consistently when I am asked to speak to groups around the country is to consider the possibility that we are led by a pack of idiots. This is not out of any animus toward our leadership class, but borne out of experience.
If your team is good, you watch all the games – but if they’re no fun to watch? You have a plethora of options. Just switch to Netflix.
When contrarian voices are elevated to publications once viewed as places where contending ideas shared space, organized online backlash is now inevitable.
You shouldn’t have to be a chair at a think tank to speak your mind.
What we try to do at ‘The Federalist’ is to provide opinion and analysis that brings in a lot of different perspectives from across the Right. You’ll see, a lot of times, us running an article that argues one side of something and then an article that argues the opposite.
A smart, intellectual magazine is a difficult thing to run because of the need to manage conflicting personalities and opinionated writers who clash constantly, whose clashes make the publication better. It is exhausting and draining, and honestly, the only thing that’s harder is probably running a university.
Evangelicals have, for decades, believed that the country was more conservative than not, more Christian than not. The bipartisanship on religious liberty and the civic faith of the country was conducive to that. Now they’ve woken up to a reality in the Obama years that this was a polite fiction.
I’ve rooted all my life for a marginal team.
The human heart tends toward tribalism before tolerance. We can go back to that world. It still lives in all of us. Fighting it is the challenge, particularly at a time when the most audacious thing you can do is show some grace.
One of the things I endeavor to remind people of consistently when I am asked to speak to groups around the country is to consider the possibility that we are led by a pack of idiots. This is not out of any animus toward our leadership class, but borne out of experience.
I have seen a man charged with revolutionizing incredibly complex government information technology systems who did not know how to use a thumb drive.
Unilateral sanctions on Cuba have been oppressive and largely ineffective, and that’s why the public largely supports lifting them.
The ongoing argument over whether the Enlightenment is a good thing is hardly a new facet of American political life.
Father John Misty imagines that he is a rebel. He is, but he does not realize what he is rebelling against.
Evangelicals have, for decades, believed that the country was more conservative than not, more Christian than not. The bipartisanship on religious liberty and the civic faith of the country was conducive to that. Now they’ve woken up to a reality in the Obama years that this was a polite fiction.
A repeated problem with the Obama administration has been the lack of understanding that contracts only matter if they are enforceable – and if there is a party willing to do the enforcement.
Tolerance as practiced by the Christian, enlightened West was never about thinking that bad people are good but that we are all called to love the sinner and hate the sin.
We saw a true wave election in 2010 for Republicans. There was no such repudiation offered by Resistance Democrats in 2018.
The idea of the frontier is a stand-in for the idea of liberty.
For many Americans, 2016 will be remembered as a terrible year. It was a year in which the lack of faith in our institutions was laid bare.
In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, everyone in America assumed that there would be wars to follow – wars over the reunification of Germany, over the nations within the sphere of Soviet influence, and more. There weren’t, because George H. W. Bush’s policies and diplomacy prevented that.
When the holidays approach and the weather turns cold, you spend your nights watching and rewatching saccharine movies until you fall asleep, hoping for some gleam of happiness or catharsis that never comes, a version of life that looks like a Hallmark movie or where your idealized prince finally shows up.
A smart, intellectual magazine is a difficult thing to run because of the need to manage conflicting personalities and opinionated writers who clash constantly, whose clashes make the publication better. It is exhausting and draining, and honestly, the only thing that’s harder is probably running a university.
The world of campaign consulting is full of hype. It is designed to offer those desperate for an edge on their opponent the promise of a silver bullet and a consultancy willing to go to any lengths – including all those things you’d like to do but can’t – in order to win.
We all consume Netflix and other streaming services in different ways. Sometimes, it’s a movie you’re really going to focus on; other times, it’s background noise to something else, where you won’t really pay attention.
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