The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
Jonah GoldbergProgressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.
Jonah GoldbergHistorians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.
Jonah GoldbergNothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them shriek unreasonable things for you. The Republicans need to get back to being the party that elicits unreasonable shrieking from their opponents. Not the other way around.
Jonah Goldberg