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John Phillips Avlon (born 1973) is an American journalist and political commentator who is editor-in-chief and managing director of The Daily Beast and a CNN political analyst. Avlon has also been a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun and chief speechwriter for former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

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If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.

Compared, Party, President, Problem

Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.

Away, Bad, Bad Day, Issue, Issues, Terrorism

But in his Farewell Address, George Washington made it clear that he perceived no greater threat to the American experiment than a partisan demagogue who 'agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against the other'

Farewell, Community, Alarms, Threat, Partisan

First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.

Hateful, Independence, Party, Sides, Thinking, Votes

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Patriotism, Tales, Partisanship, Wingnut, Confuse

By pumping up hyper-partisanship, our country (America) is playing with forces that can easily get out of control. We are giving purpose and cover - and sometimes a sense of purpose - to the crazy among us. We are encouraging a culture of extremism

America, Control, Country, Crazy, Playing, Pumping

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

Conflict, Follows, Radio, Recruits, Resentment, Right

Politics is history in the present tense.

History, Politics, Present, Present Tense, Tense

I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.

Aspect, Choices, Independent, Place, Politics, Thinking

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

Against, Debate, Left, Needs, Term, Terms

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

Wings, People, Political, Conspiracy, Unite, Divide

We cannot hope to change human nature. There will always be cranks and conspiracy theorists among us. But we can try to improve things - we don't have to accept the debasement of civil discourse or civic decline. We can take steps to ensure that the lunatic fringe remains on the fringe and stops bleeding into the base and then poisoning the mainstream

Bleeding, Conspiracy, Human, Mainstream, Steps, Trying

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

Ends, People, Resentment, Tap, Ugly, Usually

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

Media, Parties, Party, Rise, Two

Whats different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. Its all part of the suffocating spin cycle were in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.

Media, Talking, Play, Give, Cycle, Points

The far right and the far left can be equally insane.

Equally, Insane, Left, Right