Timothy Egan Quotes

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With media complicity, Trump has unleashed the beast that has long resided not far from the American hearth, from those who started a Civil War to preserve the right to enslave a fellow human to the Know-Nothing mobs who burned Irish-Catholic churches out of fear of immigrants.

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The Iowa caucuses are no more predictive than a gasbag on an ethanol high swaying from a bridge in Madison County.

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The good people of Iowa have debated issues ranging from nuclear Armageddon to universal health care. And then there's 2016, when the top two Republican candidates in the dwindling hours before caucusgoers pick a nominee are throwing around this question: How stupid are the people of Iowa? It was Donald Trump who first raised the issue of Hawkeye State imbecility, in a mocking reference to a crush that Iowans had on Ben Carson last fall. And it's the odious Ted Cruz who has been using Trump's very words to goad Iowans into proving that they are not, in fact, so stupid as to back an ego-inflamed reality television star who makes fun of them.

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The choice for honorable Republicans — should I stay or should I go? — is obvious, though not easy. Leave this summer, or forever live with the consequences.

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Much of the country is now more openly intolerant, quick to hate and nasty. One reaction to Obama has been the rise of an opposition party that is a home for xenophobes, defeatists and alarmists. They are the Eeyore Party with a snarl.

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It'll be a personality cult, without a hint of optimism, and certainly no overarching governing philosophy. If you're young, nonwhite, science-based and civil, there will be nothing in it for you. And it will be rejected in every precinct of the United States where hope still beats hate, which is a majority, albeit a shrinking one.

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This idea that people are following Trump only for the celebrity joy ride, that if they just understood the kind of radical, anti-American ideas he advocates they would drop him, is garbage. If the pope couldn't dent Trump, Romney surely will not.

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The Republican Party, under Trump, is headed for a combustive breakup. Ronald Reagan envisioned a shining city on a hill. Trump represents nothing more than a thug with money.

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The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem related—yet.

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I would like to think our better angels always prevail. But there are also dark episodes, when the beast is loose, and what stares back at us from the mirror is something ugly and frightful. Now is one of those times.

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A majority of Republican caucusgoers are white, native-born and believe that electing a demagogue will make American white again.

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You're supposed to be vetting, Iowa. You're supposed to be culling out the crazies. You're supposed to recognize the fraud of Ted Cruz and how Donald Trump is playing you. For all your touted small-town verities, you're not doing your job. Your bull manure detector is broken.

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I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

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The problem is not that the people of Iowa are stupid. They are not, by most measurements. It's that Iowa looks nothing like the rest of America. As a result, the winners, more often than not, are nationally unelectable extremists.

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At least we'll hear less about corn subsidies and Corinthians II, or is it Two Corinthians? Discuss. No, don't! Stupid, stupid people. Again, that's Trump talking, not me. He uses that word to describe nearly everyone not named Donald J. Trump. He's presented no governing philosophy, no policy details, nothing resembling even-keeled judgment. He's running a combustible celebrity feud fest, and you love it.

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Obama could propose Grandmother Appreciation Day and not get a single vote from Republicans because, well, he proposed it.

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The question with all gallows humor is whether it dehumanizes its subject or helps to cover pain and break down false pretense.

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Long ago and far away, in the days when white men in power ties and women in funny hats gathered in air-conditioned caverns to hammer out the Republican Party platform, it was a predictable affair. The G.O.P. was for less taxes and less government, free trade and free people, a scolding of victims and grievance-mongers, and a vision of social norms circa 1952.

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The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild land can provide work for those who need it as their source of income without being ruined for those who need it as their source of sanity.

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