The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.

Those who say they dislike dogma, or 'certainty', tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the dogma of those they disagree with. A society that was certain, certain beyond all certainty, that putting its citizens in death camps was wrong, would never put people in death camps. Such things are only possible when you're open to new ideas.

When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable. Having a serious argument with a Nazi makes the horror of the Holocaust a debatable point. Don't wrestle in the mud with pigs. You get dirty and the pig likes it.

Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.