"We now live in the Trump era, where the president's terrible ideas are made real by a team of enablers and toadies. Democracy may die in darkness, but under Trump, it's just as liable to die in dumbness."

Bret Stephens, New York Times

"The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition."
Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein

"We now live in the Trump era, where the president's terrible ideas are made real by a team of enablers and toadies. Democracy may die in darkness, but under Trump, it's just as liable to die in dumbness."

Bret Stephens, New York Times.

"It has become ever more apparent that, to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain."

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour

"Name-calling is a great way to shut down critical thinking and discussion."

Cindy Sheehan

"I don't want my staff educated!"

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)

"With hindsight, it's no surprise that the glorification of anti-elitism and anti-intellectualism that has been rampant on the right at least since the election of Barack Obama would give rise to someone like Trump. Anyone who ever read Sinclair Lewis' "It Can't Happen Here," which imagined a fascist dictator taking power in 1930s America, recognizes that Trump is the real-life embodiment of Senator Buzz Windrip-a know-nothing populist who becomes president by promising something for everyone, with no clue or concern for how to actually accomplish it. Windrip was "vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his ideas' almost idiotic," Lewis wrote. "Certainly there was nothing exhilarating in the actual words of his speeches, nor anything convincing in his philosophy. His political platforms were only the wings of a windmill." "

Bruce Bartlett

Rs don't have the balls to do anything about it.

What could possibly go wrong?
#7 | Posted by Nixon

I was going to add that. You beat me to it.

"There is reason to believe that strict right-wing ideology might appeal to those who have trouble grasping the complexity of the world."

Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience.com

"Name-calling is a great way to shut down critical thinking and discussion."

Cindy Sheehan

"There's only one way to make America great again. Tell Donald Trump to go to hell. I think he's a kook. I think he's crazy."

Lindsey Graham

"It has become ever more apparent that, to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain."

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour

"The Republicans have always had a challenge that they were the party of wealthy Americans and business. The problem is wealthy Americans will always be a very small minority of Americans. So for wealthy Americans, they have to convince at least some nonwealthy Americans to support their platform. How do you do that? Well, you do it with issues of identity, their sense of threat, their sense of fear, their sense of the world is changing and "I'm being left behind." It's very effective."

Barbara Walter

"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."

Leona Helmsley

She was put on the Court to help overturn Roe. She did that.

Where were all of these people on election day?

"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history."

George Orwell

Musk doesn't go into the back country and travels by private plane so why should Rs care if avalanche forecasts go away?

Resign and move to South America with an unlisted number. Then people will not call him.

"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."

Friedrich von Schiller

"[Trump] is somebody who is not fit to be president. He can't tell America's friends from its enemies."

Former national security adviser John Bolton

If you're not planning on allowing any more elections what do you need election security for?

"Stupidity is the same as evil, if you judge by the results."

Margaret Atwood

"There are lots of people who lack education but who have great natural intelligence and a desire to learn, including most of the people I grew up with. Stupid is different. To win a degree in stupid, you have to willfully reject facts in favor of superstitions, myths, fears and conspiracy theories. And then get all your news from fake or biased news sites targeted at the stupid."

Alan Caron