Charlie Sykes : (7) " We have to have a revival of the concept ‘truth matters.’ " - Charlie Sykes " White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias. " - Charlie Sykes " The conservative media ecosystem – like the rest of us – has to recognize how critical, but also how fragile, credibility is in the Orwellian age of Donald Trump. " - Charlie Sykes " Reagan did not have to rely on or cope with talk radio, Fox News, Breitbart, or any of the other trolls that now dominate conservative politics. " - Charlie Sykes " We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not. " - Charlie Sykes " I am less horrified by Trump himself than by what he has done to the rationalizers and enablers. " - Charlie Sykes " At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy think tanks. " - Charlie Sykes