One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free.
David FrumPeople who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.
David FrumI am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.
David FrumTrump is not just unlike a Republican, he's unlike a presidential candidate. The whole elaborate presidential process is designed to screen out people like Donald Trump. And that process broke down in ways quite unlike anything in the recent experience of the United States.
David FrumDemocracy requires you to learn how to lose as well as how to exercise power when you win. And that requires restraint all around. One of the reasons it works is because when you win you don't do things that are so upsetting to the losers that they feel like they have less, they have more to gain by turning over the system.
David Frum