I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn’t leave the Democratic Party – the Democratic Party left them. Bret Stephens Read Quote
I don’t see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it’s slightly less bad than the opposition. Bret Stephens Read Quote
There was a time when the conservative movement was led by the likes of Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol and Bob Bartley, men of ideas who invested the Republican Party with intellectual seriousness. Bret Stephens Read Quote
It’s important that Donald Trump and what he represents – this kind of ethnic, quote, ‘conservatism,’ or populism – be so decisively rebuked that the Republican Party, the Republican voters will forever learn their lesson that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape, or form. Bret Stephens Read Quote
There is something kind of aggressively and inhumanly repetitive about this line that guns are essential to American liberties – hard one to stomach when so many thousands of people are dying every year for this so-called liberty. Bret Stephens Read Quote
I get if you’re a conservative, and you’re saying, I don’t know, ‘Government shouldn’t be mandating what’s taught in classrooms,’ or, ‘Government is too intrusive in our economic life,’ well, that’s standard conservatism. Bret Stephens Read Quote
I don’t think it is impossible to make the case to sensible Americans that far greater restrictions on their so-called gun rights is imperative for public safety. It is an argument we can win. Bret Stephens Read Quote
Nearly everyone I know seems to have a well-developed theory as to why this country is past redemption, or almost, and every theory seems almost right. Bret Stephens Read Quote
