“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The Clintons, on the other hand, registered to most conservatives as the primary and ever-present” — 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“suggested to him that it was working. He was sure that Sanders’s rise was destined to end in crashing disappointment. Having thrilled… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“The Supreme Court case briefly turned Bossie into a conservative cause célèbre, not because Republicans thought his film would have any effect… — 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… — 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
“Trump was holding massive rallies in places like Alabama, which was bizarre according to conventional wisdom. Most reporters considered them an exercise… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Ivanka spoke up: “My father has something big to tell you.” “What’s that?” Murdoch said. “He’s going to run for president.” “He’s… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“What he wanted the media to cover, constantly and at length, was only one thing: Donald Trump.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“The last few days have proven to be pivotal in the minds of voters with the recent revelations in reopening the investigation… — 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
“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
“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
“What he wanted the media to cover, constantly and at length, was only one thing: Donald Trump.” — Joshua Green Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“At its essence, the alt-right is a rolling tumbleweed of wounded male id and aggression.*” — Joshua Green Copy Share
“We have to make America strong again and make America great again,” Trump told the CPAC crowd. “Because when it comes to immigration, you… — Joshua Green Copy Share
“He went on to make a series of preposterous-sounding claims—almost all of which would be borne out in the end: he would win a… — Joshua Green Copy Share
“In 1998, when Clinton first posited a “vast right-wing conspiracy” bent on ruining her and her husband, she was widely ridiculed. But she wasn’t… — Joshua Green Copy Share