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Frank Bruni Quotes

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“The internet will be the death of us. It casts rogue grievances as legitimate obsessions and gives prejudices the shimmer of ideals.”
— Frank Bruni, Opinion | The Internet Will Be the Death of Us
Tagged: Internet, Internet Culture, Internet Addiction, Fake News, Social Media, Social Media Is Bad
“They weren’t wedded to their initial opinions. They weren’t allowed to be. And they moved not toward the best answer but toward better questions.”
— Frank Bruni, The Most Contrarian College in America
Tagged: Education, College
“Conservative commentators and die-hard Republicans often brush off denunciations of Donald Trump as an unprincipled hatemonger by saying: Yeah, yeah, that’s what Democrats wail about every Republican they’re trying to take down. Sing me a song I haven’t heard so many times before.”
— Frank Bruni, Crying Wolf, Then Confronting Trump
Tagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“And when you make the direst predictions, you needlessly put your credibility on the line. The stock market didn’t go into free fall after Trump’s election. We’re not at war with North Korea. When you extrapolate too wildly into the future, you sometimes wind up distracting people from what’s happening in the here and now.”
— Frank Bruni, Opinion | How to Lose the Midterms and Re-elect Trump
Tagged: Trump, 2018 Elections
“Before he allegedly began mailing pipe bombs to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others, Cesar Sayoc found encouragement online — maybe not in the form of explosives instructions, but in the sense that he could scream his resentments in a theater that did the opposite of repudiating them. It echoed them back. It validated and cultivated them. It took something dark and colored it darker still.”
— Frank Bruni, Opinion | The Internet Will Be the Death of Us
Tagged: Internet, Social Media, Social Media Is Bad
“In Commentary, Noah Rothman has repeatedly examined this subject. He wrote back in March that when ‘honorable and decent men’ like McCain and Romney ‘are reflexively dubbed racists simply for opposing Democratic policies, the result is a G.O.P. electorate that doesn’t listen to admonitions when the genuine article is in their midst.’

‘Today,’ he added, ‘they point and shout ‘racist’ into the void, but Democrats only have themselves to blame for the fact that so many on the right are no longer listening.”
— Frank Bruni, Crying Wolf, Then Confronting Trump
Tagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“And this is a two-way street. Republicans paint a broad spectrum of Democrats as socialist kooks, and Obama has been as strong a magnet for hyperbole as any politician in my lifetime. Let us not forget Dinesh D’Souza’s 2010 book ‘The Roots of Obama’s Rage,’ or Newt Gingrich’s assertion that ‘only if you understand Kenyan, anticolonial behavior’ can you grasp Obama’s method of governing, or Trump’s insistence that Obama produce his American birth certificate.

The sad truth is that we conduct the bulk of our political debate in a key of near-hysteria. And this renders complaints of discrepant urgency, about politicians of different recklessness, into one big, ignorable mush of partisan rancor.”
— Frank Bruni, Crying Wolf, Then Confronting Trump
Tagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“I worked on the presidential campaign in 2004,’ Howard Wolfson said, referring to John Kerry’s contest against George W. Bush. He added that he was also ‘active in discussing’ John McCain when he ran for the presidency in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012.

‘And I’m quite confident I employed language that, in retrospect, was hyperbolic and inaccurate, language that cheapened my ability — our ability — to talk about this moment with accuracy and credibility.’

Did Democrats cry wolf so many times before Trump that no one hears or heeds them now?”
— Frank Bruni, Crying Wolf, Then Confronting Trump
Tagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“Applause. Greater brand exposure. A new layer of perks atop an existence already lavish with them. Utter saturation of Americans’ consciousness. These were Trump's foremost goals. Governing wasn’t, and that was obvious in his haziness and dishonesty before Election Day and in his laziness and defiance after.

He opened the White House door wide to unmoored and unserious people, most recently Anthony Scaramucci, who, during his nanosecond as communications director, disparaged Bannon as someone engaged primarily in a limber act of self-gratification. That was on the record. Then Bannon disparaged his administration adversaries as being so threatened by him that they were ‘wetting themselves.’ That was on the record, too.”
— Frank Bruni, Opinion | The Week When President Trump Resigned
Tagged: US Politics, Charlottesville violence, Donald Trump
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