Quotes by Charlie Sykes - Page 2

The dumbing down of elementary and secondary education has made its way to the collegiate level; too many unprepared students are admitted despite their inability to do college-level work.
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Inability
Secondary Education
Unprepared
Admitted
Elementary
Secondary
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Mr. Trump understands that attacking the media is the reddest of meat for his base, which has been conditioned to reject reporting from news sites outside of the conservative media ecosystem.
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Attacking
Conservative
Meat
News
Trump
Base
Mr
Conditioned
Ecosystem
Outside
Reject
Reporting
Sites
Understands
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The professors - working steadily and systematically - have destroyed the university as a center of learning and have desolated higher education, which no longer is higher or much of an education.
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Destroyed
Higher Education
Professors
Steadily
Systematically
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The primary victory of Roy Moore in Alabama over the candidate for the U.S. Senate seat backed by President Trump suggests that that not even Trump himself can control the forces that he unleashed.
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Alabama
Senate
Unleashed
Backed
Candidate
Seat
Moore
President Trump
Roy
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In 2010, conservatives won big majorities in the Wisconsin State Legislature, and I openly supported many of their reforms, including changes to collective bargaining and expansions of school choice.
Charlie Sykes /
Bargaining
Collective Bargaining
Including
Legislature
Wisconsin
Choice
Collective
Conservatives
Won
Reforms
Openly
State Legislature
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On his first full day in office, Mr. Trump insisted that his inaugural crowd was the largest ever, a baseless boast that will likely set a pattern for his relationship both to the media and to the truth.
Charlie Sykes /
Boast
Insisted
Largest
Pattern
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Reagan wrote out many of his radio commentaries and newspaper articles as well as many of his own speeches. He wrote poetry, short stories, and letters. Trump, in his own hand, writes 140-character tweets.
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Articles
Letters
Newspaper
Short Stories
Tweets
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A lot of Americans do not have an appreciation for our history. They do not understand the Constitution, why we have these norms. And at some point, yes, the media has some responsibility, but so does the public.
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Appreciation
Norms
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Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill - Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much different vision of American greatness, of nationalism - a much darker view, I think, of the world.
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Greatness
Nationalism
Shining
Trump
Vision
Believed
City
Darker
Donald
Donald Trump
Reagan
Shining City
View
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Across the country, universities that had abandoned in loco parentis in the 1960s because it was too oppressive and intrusive have replaced it with in loco Big Brother programs of political and cultural re-education.
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Abandoned
Replaced
Big Brother
Intrusive
Programs
Oppressive
Universities
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We would naturally prefer not to reckon with the worst of what people do or say on the margins, but we have to. Especially if it seems possible to trace a line from vicious rhetoric on a computer screen to violent action.
Charlie Sykes /
Computer Screen
Margins
Rhetoric
Vicious
Violent
Reckon
Trace
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White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.
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Bias
Cognitive
Decades
Surrender
Convictions
Forced
Liberals
Modify
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The thing most frightening about Donald Trump is he doesn't know what he doesn't know and doesn't seem to care about what he doesn't know, and as a result of that, he doesn't know what the consequences of his actions might be.
Charlie Sykes /
Frightening
Consequences
Donald
Donald Trump
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I don't think Trump is a conservative. I think he is a man without any fixed principles. And to the extent he does have any ideology, it owes far more to European-style National Front right-wing politics than to American conservatism.
Charlie Sykes /
Conservatism
Fixed
Ideology
Principles
Right Wing
Extent
Owes
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I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.
Charlie Sykes /
Distinction
Alike
Rush
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Some people ask how the conservative media can continue to defend Trump. It's very easy for them: No matter how bad Trump is, the mainstream media and the Left will always be worse, you know? Don't expect Rush Limbaugh to turn on him.
Charlie Sykes /
Mainstream Media
Always People Will
Defend
Rush
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The N.R.A.'s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks - devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster - is designed to pre-empt anything more serious by giving the illusion of action. It substitutes accessory control for actual gun control.
Charlie Sykes /
Action
Blessing
Devices
Faster
Fire
Giving
Gun
Gun Control
Serious
Substitutes
Weapons
Accessory
Actual
Bump
Designed
Restrictions
Stocks
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In many ways, anti-anti-Trumpism mirrors Donald Trump himself because, at its core there are no fixed values, no respect for constitutional government or ideas of personal character - only a free-floating nihilism cloaked in insult, mockery, and bombast.
Charlie Sykes /
Respect
Government
Character
Constitutional Government
Fixed
Ideas
Insult
Mirrors
Mockery
Nihilism
No Respect
Trump
Because
Constitutional
Donald
Donald Trump
Himself
Personal
Ways
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There once was a time when employers could be reasonably certain that college graduates had a basic sense of the world and, as a minimum, could write a coherent business letter. That is simply no longer the case, as some academic leaders appear ready to admit.
Charlie Sykes /
Academic
Employers
Graduates
Minimum
Time Business World
Admit
Appear
Coherent
Letter
Reasonably
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If a university announced that henceforth, it would be offering a three-year bachelor's degree, in one stroke it would cut the cost of a college education and provide a distinctive way of competing for students - as well as put the institution on the cutting edge of reform.
Charlie Sykes /
College Education
Competing
Cutting
Cutting Edge
Distinctive
Offering
Reform
Announced
Bachelor
Edge
Henceforth
Institution
Stroke
Three-Year
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For years, Republicans have effectively outsourced their thought leadership to the loudmouths at the end of the bar. But perhaps the most extreme example of that trend has been the issue of guns, where the party has ceded control to a gun lobby that has built its brand on absolutism.
Charlie Sykes /
Leadership
Absolutism
Example
Gun
Party
Extreme
Bar
Brand
Guns
Effectively
Republicans
Issue
Lobby
Perhaps
Trend
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Despite the evidence that we already have too many students in higher education, the hot new idea among the political class is to double down by pushing for 'free college tuition.' The problem with the 'free college' idea is, however, not merely financial. It also reinforces the myth that college is appropriate or even possible for all students.
Charlie Sykes /
Appropriate
Despite
Evidence
Higher Education
Myth
Pushing
Tuition
Double
Merely
New Idea
Political Class
The Problem With
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