Erick Erickson Quotes

Younger evangelicals “want the world to like them and to think them a part of the world.

And for an argument that blends science denial and Biblical superstition in a delightful shithead sundae, there’s Erick Erickson’s, “The difference between people who believe in the second coming of Jesus and those who believe in global warming is that Jesus will return.” One could teach a graduate seminar on all the boneheaded assumptions festering in that one statement. But,

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me. —MARTIN NIEMÖLLER

Erick Erickson built his career on stoking populist rage. But now the man who steers the Tea Party says conservative anger has grown toxic and self-defeating.