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“Bad principles are not a good substitute for no principles.”

Michael Kinsley

Donald Trump is actually a fascist (December 9, 2016)
Context: If I’m correct that Trump actually has a governing philosophy, that’s a bad thing, not a good thing. If he actually has principles to guide him through those famous swamps he plans to drain, that’s alarming, not reassuring. Bad principles are not a good substitute for no principles. Four or eight years of bad principles may make no principles look pretty good.

“Ambition can never be naked in a political campaign, it must be clothed in deceit.”

Michael Kinsley

As quoted in Time, Jan. 4, 2008

“I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.”

Michael Kinsley

As quoted on Crossfire, CNN, Nov. 15, 1990.

“A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth - some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say.”

Michael Kinsley

As quoted in Commentary: The gaffer speaks, The Times, April 23, 1988.

“Donald Trump is a fascist. … Not in the sense of an all-purpose bad guy, but in the sense of somebody who sincerely believes that the toxic combination of strong government and strong corporations should run the nation and the world. He spent his previous career negotiating with the government on behalf of corporations; now he has switched teams. But it’s the same game.”

Michael Kinsley

Donald Trump is actually a fascist (December 9, 2016)

“Conservatives are always looking for converts, whereas liberals are always looking for heretics.”

Michael Kinsley

As cited by John Leo in Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police http://books.google.com/books?id=HIQNZ-oQPX4C&pg=PA61&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Transaction Publishers, 1998, p. 61.