8 Quotes by Stuart Stevens

Love of sports will always break your heart, but in doing so, it reminds us we have one.

Trump’s Deep State is just a variation of Joe McCarthy’s mythical Communists infesting the State Department, the “enemies within.

The entire modern Republican definition of the conservative movement is about efforts to define itself as “normal” and everything else as “not normal.

So many Republicans embraced Trump’s view that they were victims, as was he, because they had actually believed this all along. Theirs was a white birthright, and the rise of nonwhites was an unjust usurping of their rights.

My dad was in the FBI when Hoover ordered the roundup of Asian Americans. He hated it and quit, joined the navy, and spent the next three years fighting in the South Pacific. Like so many, he didn’t talk a lot about the war. But when it came to leaving the FBI, he told me once, “You can always say no.

If the Republican Party had been in charge in 1776, we’d all still be celebrating the queen’s birthday.

When any political movement loses all sense of self and has no unifying theory of government, it ceases to function as a collective rooted in thought and becomes more like fans of a sports team.

One of the hallmarks of the Trump era is the alacrity with which intelligent people embrace stupidity.