“President Trump should open channels of communication with the North and dispatch a high-powered special envoy to Pyongyang. He also needs to have an inter-subjective understanding of North Korea, which is essential to trust-building, and to avoid the folly of demonizing the North.”— Chung-in Moon, nti.org
“If you want to see the Trump agenda, it's very simple. It's all in the speeches. He's probably the greatest public speaker in those public arenas since William Jennings Bryan.”— Steve Bannon, hollywoodreporter.com
“There is a growing global antiestablishment revolt against the permanent political class at home, and the global elites that influence them, which impacts everyone from Lubbock, Texas, to London, England.”— Steve Bannon, sfchronicle.com
“The opioid crisis is an emergency. And I am saying officially right now: It is an emergency, it's a national emergency. We're going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis.”— Donald Trump, yahoo.com
“Already, Trump is causing Obama to go down in popular memory as a far-left progressive and not a centrist who deported millions and killed hundreds of thousands in wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and elsewhere. Sure, Trump is worse than Obama in a lot of ways, but the whole point is that we…”— Peter Gelderloos, theanarchistlibrary.org
“The President began by asking me whether I wanted to stay on as FBI Director, which I found strange because he had already told me twice in earlier conversations that he hoped I would stay, and I had assured him that I intended to. He said that lots of people wanted my job and, given the abuse I had…”— James Comey, cnn.com
“It’s as if we’re in Chicago and Trump tells us he’s going to get us to LA in six days. But for the first three days we are driving towards New York. Yes, it is true he can still turn around and get us to LA in three days, but I’m a little nervous.”— Ann Coulter, dailycaller.com
“Our United States of America Has quickly become a global empire Come on, see it now for what it really is Power hungry, nothing much to give Violent, all in the name of freedom”— Mason Jennings, open.spotify.com
“I was fired for publishing a post on my personal blog about being a transgender journalist exploring what it means to do truthful, ethical journalism with a moral compass in this very complex time.”— Lewis Wallace, medium.com
“Symmetry, Instagram, Kardashians – it's over! Money is over. Rich people need to get weird again, like Diana Vreeland used to be. Like, why don't you quilt yourself a coat of white monkey fur and meander around your apartment?”— Cat Marnell, rollingstone.com
“Our president is a pathological liar. Say it. Write it. Never become inured to it. And dispense with the terms of art to describe it. A lie by any other name portends the same.”— Charles M. Blow, nytimes.com
“In what I've seen happen so far, the good usually wins. That's why I'm not afraid of a Trump presidency.”— Chance The Rapper, amazon.com
“During the Second World War, psychologist Erich Fromm asked in Escape From Freedom why, despite an overarching trend toward greater personal freedom, large chunks of the western world had embraced authoritarianism. It was tempting, he argued, to consider this an aberration, the fault of a few madmen…”— Jason Tanz, Erich Fromm, wired.com
“I have spent a lot of time this year trying to imagine the mind of a person who finds the Pizzagate conspiracy compelling. What would it feel like to hear a ludicrously tawdry tale about a celebrity you despise, and be so taken with its fairy-tale depiction of evil that you become obsessed? You can’…”— Maureen O'Connor, nymag.com
“One of my good friends said, ‘Peter, do you realize how crazy this is, how everybody thinks this is crazy?’ I was like: ‘Well, why am I wrong? What’s substantively wrong with this?’ And it all got referred back to ‘Everybody thinks Trump’s really crazy.’ So it’s like there’s a shortcut, which is: ‘I…”— Peter Thiel, nytimes.com
“But some people want to believe that Trump can be tricked into following any old schmuck that uses the right hashtags. Some people want to believe that he’s just some dope that somehow, without really trying, has bullshitted his way into the presidency. But neither case is true, and the progressives…”— Zachary Kagan, medium.com
“And yet, right there in the first two paragraphs, are two Trump statements that should be deeply unsettling for those interested in defending the (small 'l') liberalism I discussed yesterday: "I'm here to help you folks do well" and "We're going to be there for you". First off, these sorts of statem…”— Ben Thompson, stratechery.com