Jonah Goldberg on Politics
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Jonah Goldberg, catalogued under Politics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Jonah Goldberg, entry #111865: "The problem is that the central government in a sprawling country of over 325 million can’t provide solidarity —only the institutions of civil society can fill the holes in our so…"
Attributed to Jonah Goldberg, entry #84083: "I understand that identity-politics arguments are supposed to trump everything else these days, but the idea that all Americans of Asian, black, and Hispanic heritage have homogen…"
4 Quotes by Jonah Goldberg on Politics
"The problem is that the central government in a sprawling country of over 325 million can’t provide solidarity —only the institutions of civil society can fill the holes in our souls."
"I understand that identity-politics arguments are supposed to trump everything else these days, but the idea that all Americans of Asian, black, and Hispanic heritage have homogeneous political interests and identities is both ridiculous and grotesque."
"Disenfranchisement is something the government does to you. It's not something you do to yourself. If you can't figure out how to fill in the ovals or punch the chads—and some minority of voters will always botch it—that doesn't mean your right to vote was rescinded. It means that you didn't take your right to vote seriously enough to pay attention to the instructions."
"Everyone’s decrying tribalism, and yet the idea that we should rejigger the constitutional order to make sure that Asian Americans in California have the same “representation” in the Senate as Hispanics in, say, Texas or Rhode Island is profoundly tribal. Maybe Hispanics in Texas have different political interests than Hispanics in California? Maybe Hispanics — an incredibly diverse category of people — don’t vote based upon an abstract designation?"