It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC. Mark Shields More Quotes by Mark Shields More Quotes From Mark Shields [Donald] Trump is instructive.For Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people. Mark Shields orderpeopleworld For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the [Ben] Sanders- [Hillary] Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree, they're sentenced to that debate. Mark Shields debatedegreestrying [Hillary] Clinton is much more embracing of the global economy and the international world order. [Ben] Sanders and [Scott] Warren are much less so. Mark Shields economyorderworld It's fine to be an activist, but you're not - if you're not putting up candidates, if you're not getting political, if you're not in your party, then you're probably not going to have long-term change. You will probably dissipate. Mark Shields politicalpartylong The Tea Party thing is only apt in some ways. The activism in the town halls, that looks superficially like it. But what the Tea Party did was, they went after the party, the Republican Party, as their vehicle. And parties is how you change history. Mark Shields partytealooks I think Donald Trump is not going to be impeached [in a ] month. Let's not close out possibilities.I do think that what's happening is great and that people are active and people are just involved in the democratic process. Mark Shields monthspeoplethinking I think Hillary Clinton - first of all, it's a great victory, acknowledge it. She has made history. Mark Shields clintonvictorythinking I mean, this is a group [Republicans], don't forget, that gave its presidential straw ballot to Ron Paul, Ron Paul, and Rand Paul and Rand Paul. So, they have abandoned what - their libertarian values and instincts to embrace [Donald] Trump. Mark Shields libertarianpresidentialmean It's tempting to remember that the Tea Party had a peak and then the Republican Party establishment sort of beat it back down. And so these things are won in a day. Mark Shields down-andpartytea America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at the border. Mark Shields bordersamericafirsts Donald Trump defies gravity. And so I guess he has to be Donald Trump. It's gotten him so far. Mark Shields [Dwight Eisenhower was ] a citizen of the world. Mark Shields dwight-eisenhowercitizensworld [Donald trump] is moved from the enemy being Barack Obama, now gone, fading is Hillary Clinton, and there is no question he's chosen the enemy. Mark Shields fadinggoneenemy I thought what Steve Bannon said was probably more chilling or more threatening than anything the president [Donald Trump]says, I mean, because he said, it's a constant day. We have to defeat the press. Mark Shields chillpresidentmean President [John F.] Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs, said to Turner Catledge of The New York Times: I wish you had written more, I wish you had investigated more, because it might have saved the country of the cataclysm of the Bay of Pigs. Mark Shields new-yorkpigscountry That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. And denying access, as Sean Spicer did , is the first step toward a dictatorship. Mark Shields stepsjobsfirsts Hillary Clinton, at the end of the debate, what you want viewers to say, yes, she's smart, she's knowledgeable, but she's not a bad egg, you know? Not a bad egg is a pretty high compliment in American politics, given the toxic atmosphere in which we currently dwell. Mark Shields debateatmospheresmart Franklin Roosevelt had a pretty clear line. Ronald Reagan had a pretty clear line, people who rescue parties. Mark Shields linespartypeople If you're on the other side from me, you're not simply wrong or ill-informed or mistaken. We don't share the same country, the same values. You may not be the same kind of an American I am. Mark Shields sidesmaycountry There is a cleavage and a divide in America like I have never seen before. Mark Shields cleavagedividesamerica
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