“I realized I liked being hated more than I liked being liked-that's when the game began.” — Joshua Green Liked Game Copy Share Image
“At its essence, the alt-right is a rolling tumbleweed of wounded male id and aggression.*” — Joshua Green Aggression 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 Mercer Copy Share Image
“The experience taught Bannon the power of real news and how it could be exploited—a lesson he would soon have cause to… — Joshua Green Experience Taught Copy Share Image
“The Clintons, on the other hand, registered to most conservatives as the primary and ever-present” — Joshua Green Conservatives 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 Trump 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 Trump 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 Hope Copy Share Image
“What he wanted the media to cover, constantly and at length, was only one thing: Donald Trump.” — Joshua Green Donald trump 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 Audience Copy Share Image
“As unlikely as it sounds from the vantage point of today, Trump and The Apprentice, up through the end of the decade,… — Joshua Green Multiculturalism Copy Share Image
“Trump was still considered a carnival sideshow, Breitbart News a site for trolls and crazies, and Bannon a fringe figure who wouldn’t… — Joshua Green Trump Copy Share Image
“Bannon basically agreed. When the embarrassed Lynch reporter asked for time off, he refused to allow it, allergic to any hint of… — Joshua Green Every day Copy Share Image
“Our back-up strategy,” he said of Clinton, “is to fuck her up so bad that she can’t govern. If she gets 43… — Joshua Green Trump Copy Share Image
“Nobody knew it yet, but the president and his staff would not be so solicitous. They had, in fact, been eagerly awaiting… — Joshua Green Trump Copy Share Image
“Asked at the 2014 Vatican conference about the racist element found in many far-right parties, Bannon replied that “over time it all… — Joshua Green Trump Copy Share Image
“We are led by very, very stupid people,” Trump declared at a September 9 rally on Capitol Hill. But it didn’t have… — Joshua Green Capitol hill 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
“As someone possessed of perhaps the best raw political instincts of any Republican in his generation, Trump had intuited, correctly, that a… — Joshua Green Politics Copy Share Image
“On his desk was a printout of an article, set to run in the next morning’s New York Times. It explained how… — Joshua Green Political party Copy Share Image
“the Clinton campaign showed no sign at all that the midwestern states Trump’s scientists now considered winnable were even in play. As… — Joshua Green Election day 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
“Breitbart’s genius was that he grasped better than anyone else what the early twentieth-century press barons understood—that most readers don’t approach the… — Joshua Green Journalism Copy Share Image
“Trump said something to me that crystallized his view of politics and explains, to my mind, much of his subsequent difficulties. “I… — Joshua Green Politics Copy Share Image
“Bannon, more synthesist than adherent, brought to Guénon’s Traditionalism a strong dose of Catholic social thought, in particular the concept of “subsidiarity”:… — Joshua Green Pope Pius X 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,… — Joshua Green Politics Copy Share Image
“Waxman devised something far more attention-grabbing and dramatic. The following Sunday, Burton was booked for an encore appearance on Meet the Press.… — Joshua Green Gingrich Humiliated 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 Fox news 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 Sexual assault 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 Focal point 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 Trump 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 Fox news 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 Democracy 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 Chief of staff 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 Business 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 Business 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 Trump Copy Share Image
“One of the things Goldman teaches you is, don’t be the first guy through the door, because you’re going to get all… — Joshua Green Goldman Copy Share Image
“Too late, Clinton had awoken to the danger of the tightening race: she, too, had swept through Pennsylvania (twice) and North Carolina,… — Joshua Green North carolina Copy Share Image
