“Too late, Clinton had awoken to the danger of the tightening race: she, too, had swept through Pennsylvania (twice) and North Carolina,… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Trump’s data analysts gave them a nickname: “double haters.” These were people who disliked both candidates but traditionally showed up at the… — Joshua Green Haters Copy Share Image
“At heart, Trump is an opportunist driven by a desire for public acclaim, rather than a politician with any fixed principles.” — Joshua Green Opportunist Copy Share Image
“Stuart Stevens, who ran Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. “Trump is a nut, and he likes to surround himself with nuts. It’s… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“If Bannon was bothered by the incendiary views held by some of those lining up with him, he didn’t show it. His… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“We will have so much winning if I get elected,” he vowed, “that you may get bored with the winning.” — Joshua Green Success Copy Share Image
“He passed the time reading books on Zen Buddhism and playing basketball, where his ball-hogging style of play earned him the nickname… — Joshua Green Basketball Copy Share Image
“few days earlier, Trump and some aides had offered the exclusive story of his upcoming entrance into the race to Maggie Haberman,… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Breitbart’s pirate crew became tribunes of the rising Tea Party movement and champions of Sarah Palin, with whom Bannon was close, bedeviling… — Joshua Green Government shutdown Copy Share Image
“If you were looking for a tone or pivot, Bannon will pivot you in a dark, racist, and divisive direction,” said the… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Truth be told, the party was moving in entirely the wrong direction. Ever since 1964, when Barry Goldwater championed “states’ rights”—understood to… — Joshua Green Civil rights Copy Share Image
“In the same way that a collateralized-debt obligation is the sum of hundreds of individual mortgages, the real value of a film… — Joshua Green Cinema Copy Share Image
“about the worst choice Trump could have made because it signaled that, rather than steer toward a gentlemanly defeat that might preserve… — Joshua Green Failure Copy Share Image
“In the weeks that followed, his poll numbers slid further after he engaged in extended attacks on the parents of a slain… — Joshua Green American war Copy Share Image
“When a reporter reached him to ask what the campaign was planning for the next evening’s debate against Clinton, and whether a… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“This popularity extended to Trump himself, who, according to private demographic research conducted at the time, was even more popular with African… — Joshua Green African american Copy Share Image
“And then Trump delivered one final importunement to the crowd. “Go to bed!” he told them. “Go to bed right now! Get… — Joshua Green Election day Copy Share Image
“Trump,” she declared, to a multicultural audience at a community college, “is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his… — Joshua Green Conspiracy theories Copy Share Image
“Bossie hired Kellyanne Conway to poll likely New York voters to get a clear picture of Trump’s chances. The results were as… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“liberal simply couldn’t sustain himself professionally by developing a specialized capacity for attacking, say, Romneys or Bushes. Either there wasn’t sufficient continuity… — Joshua Green Liberal Copy Share Image
“Kushner, now back from vacationing in Croatia, delivered the news at a Friday morning breakfast as diplomatically as he could. “We’ve really… — Joshua Green Friday morning Copy Share Image
“We’d pull into a place like Karachi, Pakistan—this is 1979, and I’ll never forget it—the British guys came on board, because they… — Joshua Green Middle east Copy Share Image
“On October 18, before the numbers had been re-weighted, the campaign’s internal election simulator, dubbed the “Battleground Optimizer Path to Victory,” gave… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“As devious as this plot was, it could never have succeeded to the degree that it did had Clinton not abetted it… — Joshua Green North korea Copy Share Image
“We have to make America strong again and make America great again,” Trump told the CPAC crowd. “Because when it comes to… — Joshua Green Immigration reform Copy Share Image
“Trump was coming under fire because his campaign hadn’t produced a single policy paper. So Bannon arranged for Nunberg and Ann Coulter,… — Joshua Green Magna carta Copy Share Image
“And yet Trump was hardly dissuaded. His habit always was to quiz anyone and everyone about what they thought, whether or not… — Joshua Green Habits Copy Share Image
“For all his paranoid alarm, Bannon believes that the rise of nationalist movements across the world, from Europe to Japan to the… — Joshua Green National identity Copy Share Image
“Bannon reminded Sessions that a nod from him now, with the SEC primaries looming three days away, could be decisive. The South… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“We live and die by the media. Every time we’re launching a book, I’ll build a battle map that literally breaks down… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“In 1998, when Clinton first posited a “vast right-wing conspiracy” bent on ruining her and her husband, she was widely ridiculed. But… — Joshua Green Conspiracy Copy Share Image
“Given the central role he had played in the greatest political upset in American history, the reporter suggested that it had all… — Joshua Green American history Copy Share Image
“These guys, these rootless white males, had monster power,” he said. “It was the pre-reddit. It’s the same guys on Thottbot who… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Thirty minutes later, a tweet from the account of RNC chairman Reince Priebus, ghostwritten by his deputy, Sean Spicer, a notoriously poor… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Once that work has permeated the mainstream—once it’s found “a host body,” in David Brock’s phrase—then comes the “pivot.” Heroes and villains… — Joshua Green Heroes and villains Copy Share Image
“Within minutes of the debate’s end, even as Trump was still nursing his grievances on live television, reporters began to realize that… — Joshua Green Fox news Copy Share Image
“But toward the end, Donald Trump’s negative rating with black audiences was the second worst of any celebrity we measured. Do you… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Instead of the patriotic pageantry Republicans typically produce, the four-day event was a strange, dark, almost dystopian affair whose attempt to unify… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“As he broadcast his birther charge against Obama, Nielsen ratings for The Celebrity Apprentice took a sharp turn for the worse. “Given… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“And then the bombshell landed. Early in the afternoon of Friday, October 28, James Comey, the director of the FBI, sent a… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image