Militant Normals Quotes

“This is the core irony of an Elite that is often in no way elite. They are not trying to make the Normals as open-minded as the Elite. They are trying to make the Normals as narrow-minded as the Elite.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy

“Luckily, for those interested in mastering the minefield of problematic acts and wish to learn the catechism, you can flip on MSNBC and hear Rachel Maddow preach it.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy

“Normals were faced with a bunch of insufferable snobs who thought the rules did not apply to them—though the rules sure as hell applied to the Normals—and who were not constrained by any limitations other than their own desires. And the Normals? When they were a consideration at all, the fact that something made life harder for Normals was a selling point. Let’s take away a lane Normals commute on to work and make it a bike lane that one guy an hour will use while the suckers sit idling on gridlocked streets.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy

“Trump was the explosion, the Mount St. Helens of American politics.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy

“We have to ban cars tomorrow or else the penguins will die, then the polar bears will die, and then the children will die! Everyone will die, damn it, there’s no time to talk! The experts know what’s best and if we keep yakking, pretty soon the water will be up above our ankles in Denver.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy

“The Elite claps like trained seals for overpaid morons in tights and helmets kneeling during the national anthem because—well, no one has ever provided a coherent reason why. There isn’t one.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy

“Transgender bathrooms aren’t about boys pretending to be girls feeling better about their delusions. It’s about letting the Normals know that the Elite can violate their most sensitive and private moments if it feels like it—and that the Normals can’t do a damn thing about it.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy

“Cultural power? Rock stars and movie idols are drug-addled losers with personal lives of Mogadishu-levels of chaos.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy

“America’s Elite is a meritocracy that has abandoned the notion of merit.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy

“That gap between how the Elite wishes its institutions to be seen and how they truly are is the key to the unrest, and the gap is a result of the Elite’s utter refusal to accept even the most modest imposition of accountability by those the institutions are”
― Kurt Schlichter, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy

“I am called upon to rule. Heed my commands, little men and women, for I know best.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy

“Lawton, Oklahoma,”
― Kurt Schlichter, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy

“They were afraid of him.”
― Kurt Schlichter, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy

“heads we have global warming, tails we also have global warming”
― Kurt Schlichter, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy

“So these proud public servants, these experts entrusted with our most powerful institutions, harnessed the authority of America’s law enforcement and intelligence communities to attack their personal political enemies and told themselves they were doing God’s work. Except none of them actually believe in God. Their god was the government, but only as long as the government was run by people like them. So, in a way, the Elite’s god is themselves. And that’s the crux of the problem. The Elite is its own higher authority, and it answers only to itself. How could that go wrong? CHAPTER FIVE The Making of an Elitist Being”
― Kurt Schlichter, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy