Donald Trump has fundamentally realigned American politics. It’s time the media acknowledge this and give him the credit he deserves.
Deepfakes – seemingly authentic video or audio recordings that can spread like wildfire online – are likely to send American politics into a tailspin, and Washington isn’t paying nearly enough attention to the very real danger that’s right around the corner.
The desire to help those struggling abroad gain the freedoms enjoyed here at home has remained a uniquely unifying force in American politics.
The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
Anti-Semitism has no business infiltrating American politics, it has no business infiltrating our college campuses, and it has no business in the halls of Congress.
You know, I’m just not going to get into American politics.
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.
George Clooney’s ‘Ides of March’ could be the most under-appreciated movie of the year. In 20 years they’re gonna go back and say, ‘Oh, that was American politics in that time period.’ I follow politics, I love it, and that movie is so authentic.
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there’s something wrong with American politics.
Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.
The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.
Friends, there is no Left in American politics.
The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.
I’m Canadian, and so American politics aren’t really in my wheelhouse.
I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don’t blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.
My experience of American politics is that people raise issues, and they get addressed in an effective but imperfect way. But that’s sort of the American system: Mind the problem and worry it, and then we attack it with overwhelming power and put it away – and that’s the end of that problem.
In the early 1970s in Washington, a small group of young conservative activists came together to try and change American politics. They called themselves the New Right, and they were convinced that unless they did something drastic, the liberals and the left-wingers in America were going to take over the country.
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
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