Sam Tanenhaus Quotes

Donald Trump very clearly said America first. That is a traditional right wing, but also very isolationist. That takes us back to the era of the 1920s, when there were immigration restrictions, and also to the isolationism before World War II.

We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

The Republican – conservative Republican answer has always been when we lose it’s because we’re not ideological enough. If they lose midterm elections, that’s why. If Obama defeats McCain and then Mitt Romney, it’s because those two Republican candidates were not ideological enough.

Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they’re just not the movement conservatism we associate with Reagan.