“At heart, Trump is an opportunist driven by a desire for public acclaim, rather than a politician with any fixed principles.” — Joshua Green 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“by installing Bannon, Conway, and later Bossie, Trump was handing the reins of a half-billion-dollar political enterprise to a seasoned team of… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Bannon’s a political entrepreneur and a remarkable bloke,” Farage said. “Without the supportive voice of Breitbart London, I’m not sure we would… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Essentially, they understood Trump’s pursuit of the presidency to be a revenge fantasy exacted upon his tormentors to establish, with sweeping certainty,… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Manafort’s ouster extinguished the last vestige of hope for Republicans praying that Trump would at last pivot to a more statesmanlike approach.” — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“What he wanted the media to cover, constantly and at length, was only one thing: Donald Trump.” — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“It fed his grandiose sense of purpose to imagine that he was amassing an army of ragged, pitchfork-wielding outsiders to storm the… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Trump grew incensed at the popular notion that Bannon was the one really running the show—that he was, as an infamous Time… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“By the time Trump arrived at his next event, in Lisbon, Maine, he had hit upon an even better sound bite to… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“early the next morning, he jetted off to Washington, D.C., where the comedian Seth Meyers was going to emcee the Correspondents’ Dinner.… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“they kept asking him about immigration. That opened his eyes.” The issue also dovetailed with Trump’s long-held view that the United States… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Among those informed about immigration [the Gang of Eight bill] was shocking—a kick in the teeth to decent Americans,” said Jeff Sessions,… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“By exhuming the nationalist thinkers of an earlier age, Bannon was trying to build an intellectual basis for Trumpism, or what might… — 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
“Inside Trump’s circle, the power of illegal immigration to manipulate popular sentiment was readily apparent, and his advisers brainstormed methods for keeping… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“salesman and turned to politics to feed his family). . . . Businessmen are accustomed to taking risk, however business risk is often partially assigned,… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Any study of Trump’s rise to the presidency is therefore unavoidably a study of Bannon, too. It’s a story Trump won’t like,… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“He went on to make a series of preposterous-sounding claims—almost all of which would be borne out in the end: he would… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“The next day, Ailes called back, less sure of himself. He had tried calling the elder Murdoch, who was vacationing with his… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“To all outward appearances, Trump had just been brutally dispatched—his dignity snatched away from him, his foray into politics swiftly cut short,… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“by installing Bannon, Conway, and later Bossie, Trump was handing the reins of a half-billion-dollar political enterprise to a seasoned team of… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“On November 8, 2016, the world shifted for just about everybody, including me. As strange as Trump’s victory was the realization that… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Manafort’s ouster extinguished the last vestige of hope for Republicans praying that Trump would at last pivot to a more statesmanlike approach.… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“From a raw political standpoint, Trump’s decision to adopt a set of views that offended and alienated minority voters, ugly though it… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Ailes dispatched his personal lawyer, Peter Johnson, Jr., to the Breitbart Embassy in Washington, D.C., to deliver a personal message to Bannon… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“the negative coverage of Bannon and Trump and their relationship to the alt-right carried on for weeks. It was a subject any… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“On television and on the front pages of the major newspapers, Trump clearly seemed to be losing the election. Each new woman… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Bannon thrived on the chaos he created and did everything he could to make it spread. When he finally made his way… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Bannon and the Breitbart editors had the same reaction and immediately turned on Megyn Kelly, with a fusillade of negative articles. She… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“He knew who his audience was going to be—it was not going to be people who want to have policy debates. It… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“The Clintons, on the other hand, registered to most conservatives as the primary and ever-present” — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Conway was a pollster by trade, but she tested messaging, not horse race, and the campaign had cut her off weeks earlier… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“He loved the guy.” It was clear the connection was genuine, said Roger Stone, “because Steve is a slob, and Trump hates… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Bring in Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway,” Mercer told him. “I’ve talked to them; they’ll do it.” Trump agreed.” — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“White audiences, along with everybody else, tuned in to watch Trump—but either they didn’t particularly like him or they simply loved to… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Ever since The New York Times broke the news on March 2, 2015, that Clinton used a personal e-mail account and private… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Trump’s self-conception as the all-powerful Apprentice boss blinded him to a fundamental truth of the modern presidency: that the president needs Congress… — 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 American and… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“It fed his grandiose sense of purpose to imagine that he was amassing an army of ragged, pitchfork-wielding outsiders to storm the barricades and,… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“few days earlier, Trump’s team of data scientists, squirreled away in an office down in San Antonio, had delivered a report titled “Predictions: Five… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“What he wanted the media to cover, constantly and at length, was only one thing: Donald Trump.” — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“an unlikely pair of guests: Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing UK Independence Party, and Phil Robertson, the bandanna’d, ayatollah-bearded Duck Dynasty patriarch… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“suggested to him that it was working. He was sure that Sanders’s rise was destined to end in crashing disappointment. Having thrilled to his… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“He and Kushner had hit upon the plan after seeing Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks and an outspoken Clinton partisan,… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“He loved the guy.” It was clear the connection was genuine, said Roger Stone, “because Steve is a slob, and Trump hates slobs.” — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Bannon’s a political entrepreneur and a remarkable bloke,” Farage said. “Without the supportive voice of Breitbart London, I’m not sure we would have had… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Wherever he could, he aligned himself with politicians and causes committed to tearing down its globalist edifice: archconservative Catholics such as Burke, Nigel Farage… — Joshua Green 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 United States,… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“At its essence, the alt-right is a rolling tumbleweed of wounded male id and aggression.*” — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
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