“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
“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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Just how Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty figured into a plan to overthrow the global power structure wasn’t clear,” — 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“Nobody knew it yet, but the president and his staff would not be so solicitous. They had, in fact, been eagerly awaiting… — Joshua Green 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 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 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“Trump’s White House was plunged into chaos and scandal from which it has not recovered—and may never. Bannon, the imaginative reconceiver of… — 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
“it’s like drinking poison and thinking it’s going to hurt your enemy,” Begala said. “He’s a billionaire tycoon in a total meltdown,… — 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 Immigration 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
“By the time Trump arrived at his next event, in Lisbon, Maine, he had hit upon an even better sound bite to… — Joshua Green Scandal 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 Great man Copy Share Image
“You can activate that army. They come in through Gamergate or whatever and then get turned onto politics and Trump.” In this… — Joshua Green Politics Copy Share Image
“As everyone gathered on the lush grounds of Robert Mercer’s estate was keenly aware, the Mercer family had given away more than… — Joshua Green Politics 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
