“I realized I liked being hated more than I liked being liked-that's when the game began.” — Joshua Green 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
“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
“What he wanted the media to cover, constantly and at length, was only one thing: Donald Trump.” — 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 Hope 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The subtler and stranger the correlation—like the relationship between sunny weather and rising markets—the less likely that others would spot it and… — Joshua Green Customer 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
“For all his early-morning bravado, Bannon sounded as if he still couldn’t quite believe it all. And what an incredible story it… — Joshua Green American history Copy Share Image
“At his peak in 2010, Trump’s positive Q Score with black audiences was 27, while his positive score among English-speaking Hispanic audiences… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“On the first business day after Manafort’s firing, Trump put out a statement intended to reframe the race: “Hillary Clinton is the… — Joshua Green American people Copy Share Image
“In the shell-shocked aftermath of the election, President Obama, looking shaken, appeared in the White House Rose Garden to deliver public remarks… — 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 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Conservatives 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