Ilana Mercer > Quotes

“The neoconservative pseudo-conservatives speak like Tocqueville but act like Robespierre.”
― Ilana Mercer, The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed

“In democratic South Africa, dispossession is nine-tenths of the law.”
― ILANA MERCER, Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa

“Republicans are the drag queens of politics. Peel away the pules for family, faith and fetuses and one discovers either neoconservative welfare-warfare statists or global social democrats ...”
― Ilana Mercer, Broad Sides - One Woman's Clash with a Corrupt Culture

“The psychiatric endeavor—voodoo, really—is premised on the medicalization of misconduct.”
― ILANA MERCER

“To Donald Trump, making America great means making the people great. To the political cast, conversely, making America great means making government great.”
― ILANA Mercer, The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed

“The Republican Party under Genghis Bush did the devil's work. Bar the sainted Ron Paul, not a dog of a Republican lifted his leg in protest of the unjust war on Iraq.”
― Ilana Mercer, The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed

“Donald Trump is acting as a political Samson that threatens to bring the den of iniquity crashing down on its patrons.”
― ILANA Mercer, The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed

“The Donald has the political players rising on their hind legs in defense of their realm. And he has hitherto shattered the totems and taboos these players enforce. Debated as never before are vexations like immigration, Islam, and, yes, the legitimacy of the Republican National Committee.”
― Ilana Mercer, The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed

“To Donal Trump, making America great means making the people great. To the political cast, conversely, making America great means making government great.”
― ILANA Mercer, The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed

“The cable commentariat is a cog in the corpulent D.C. fleshpot.”
― Ilana Mercer, The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed

“To listen to the nation’s psychiatric gurus is to come to believe that crimes are caused, not committed. Perpetrators don’t do the crime, but are driven to their dirty deeds by a confluence of uncontrollable factors, victims of societal forces or organic brain disease.”
― ILANA MERCER

“In the service of statist sameness, the male-vs.-female biological imperatives are rapidly, if reflexively, being dissolved. Dissolving 'The Constitution of Man' is dangerous to civilization, for a subservient, effete civilization will not survive the onslaught of Islam.”
― Ilana Mercer, The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed

“Speaker Ryan, who voted for the $1.1 trillion 2016 Omnibus Spending Bill, demanding Trump show him his conservative credentials is as though a guy who never built a thing were to mock a man who has built lots of things.”
― Ilana Mercer, The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed

“Our unhappy trek through the wreck of the New South Africa begins with the facts, nothing but the facts.”
― Ilana Mercer, Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa

“take “jobs away from one group in order to compensate a second group to correct injustices caused by a third group who mistreated a fourth group at an earlier point in history.”
― Ilana Mercer, Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa

“Survival—of the species of the culture of the faith—has a biological dimension. What would have befallen our Hominid ancestors had they implemented gender parity in their hunter-gatherer societies—sometimes the women hunt while the men forage and mind the kids, and vice versa?”
― Ilana Mercer, The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed

“From the safety and comfort of rarefied zip codes, open-border theorists tutor the little people in the positive economic effects on productivity and economic growth of high population density. But regular folks don't have to travel to Cairo or Karachi to discover that this urban theory is an urban myth.”
― ilana mercer, The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed

“The original Constitution is a dead letter, having suffered decades of legislative, executive and judicial usurpation. The natural- and common law traditions, once loadstars for lawmakers, have been buried under the rubble of legislation and statute. However much one shovels the muck of lawmaking aside, natural justice and the Founders' original intent remain buried too deep to exhume.”
― Ilana Mercer, The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed