John Avlon
Senior political columnist for Newsweek and the Daily Beast as well as a CNN contributor.
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Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.
Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.
Politics is history in the present tense.
Professional partisans are still playing politics by industrial-age rules. They haven’t woken up to the information-age reality. Younger generations have grown up with a multiplicity of choice on every front, which can be tailored to suit their individual beliefs. Politics is the last place where we are supposed to be satisfied with a choice between Brand A and Brand B.
If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.
The far-right and far-left can be equally insane.
Extremes are ultimately their own side's worst enemy.
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