“It’s only when you find yourself describing someone who really is the definition of an extremist — who really is, essentially, in my opinion, a fascist — that you recognize that the language that you’ve used in the past to describe other people was hyperbolic and inappropriate and cheap.”— Howard Wolfson, nytimes.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“And this is a two-way street. Republicans paint a broad spectrum of Democrats as socialist kooks, and Obama has been as strong a magnet for hyperbole as any politician in my lifetime. Let us not forget Dinesh D’Souza’s 2010 book ‘The Roots of Obama’s Rage,’ or Newt Gingrich’s assertion that ‘only if…”— Frank Bruni, nytimes.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“In Commentary, Noah Rothman has repeatedly examined this subject. He wrote back in March that when ‘honorable and decent men’ like McCain and Romney ‘are reflexively dubbed racists simply for opposing Democratic policies, the result is a G.O.P. electorate that doesn’t listen to admonitions when the…”— Frank Bruni, nytimes.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“I worked on the presidential campaign in 2004,’ Howard Wolfson said, referring to John Kerry’s contest against George W. Bush. He added that he was also ‘active in discussing’ John McCain when he ran for the presidency in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012. ‘And I’m quite confident I employed language tha…”— Frank Bruni, nytimes.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“Conservative commentators and die-hard Republicans often brush off denunciations of Donald Trump as an unprincipled hatemonger by saying: Yeah, yeah, that’s what Democrats wail about every Republican they’re trying to take down. Sing me a song I haven’t heard so many times before.”— Frank Bruni, nytimes.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump