Resistance (At All Costs) Quotes

“Mueller instead resurrected FARA from the near dead to go after people with the threat of jail time. The willful failure to register as an agent under FARA can result in five years in federal prison. Mueller also threatened to file FARA charges against former National Security Advisor Flynn to pressure him to cooperate—even though, again, Flynn had nothing to tell. Mueller would ultimately bring seven FARA cases, rivaling the total number brought by the DOJ in the prior fifty years. Nearly all of these were done in the context of plea deals, meaning Mueller did not have to test them in court. Good-government types would laud Mueller for resurrecting a law against “shadowy” lobbying. But justice is never served by arbitrary or surprise shifts in the prosecutorial system. The most unjust law is one that is enforced only when it serves the purpose of catching the unwary. Mueller exploited the unsuspecting for his own ends. And his untoward tactics would end up boomeranging on the very Democrats who’d celebrated him.”
― Kimberley Strassel, Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America

“But the fact the FBI had it, or that Representative Adam Schiff quoted from it in public, didn’t release the press from a basic obligation: to either verify the truth or treat the document for what it was—slander. Instead, the media repeated the dossier’s claims (Carter Page met with shady Russians, etc.) ad nauseum, barely bothering to note that they had not been proven.”
― Kimberley Strassel, Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America

“The media has published evidence-free accusations, a new and alarming low. It has sourced its stories from people with clear political axes to grind, even as it has worked to hide those motivations from its readers. It’s run with flamingly incorrect pieces and never bothered to acknowledge the errors.”
― Kimberley Strassel, Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America

“As of the writing of this book, House Democrats had yet to decide whether to initiate a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump. Should they unilaterally do so, half the country will see it as proof that the party is determined to reverse via brute force the results of the 2016 election. Again, nothing Trump has done compares.”
― Kimberley Strassel, Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America

“The deep-staters like to call themselves “whistleblowers,” but that’s a bastardization of an honorable word. Whistleblowers expose government fraud or corruption; the resisters are protesting the government policy they are paid to implement. In doing so, they are delegitimizing the very government they claim to serve and want to support.”
― Kimberley Strassel, Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America

“There is, in fact, a reason the subtitle of this book refers to “Trump haters” rather than “Trump critics.” Many thoughtful Americans, and many thoughtful political writers, have issues with our 45th president—myself included. But the critics have also worked to do that very hard thing of judging Trump via the same lens they have judged past presidents. They praise him when he gets things right. They criticize him when he gets things wrong. This is the usual and long-held method of political accountability. But the “haters” can’t abide nuance. To the Resistance, any praise—no matter how qualified—of Trump is tantamount to American betrayal. And by extension, any criticism of the Resistance is equally heretical. If you are a Trump hater, this is an excellent way of shutting down challenges to your tactics or arguments. But it’s a rotten way of furthering public debate, and the ensuing vacuum of meaningful discussion has already led the Resistance to overindulge. It is now engaging in behavior that is proving far more corrosive to our institutions and”
― Kimberley Strassel, Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America