Notes

Introduction

1. Charles de Montesquieu, Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws, trans. and ed. Anne M. Cohler, Basia C. Miller, and Harold S. Stone (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 71.

2. Michelle Ye Hee Lee, “Donald Trump and Iraq: Not Loud, Not Strong, and No Headlines,” Washington Post, February 25, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/02/25/timeline-of-trumps-comments-on-iraq-invasion-not-loud-not-strong-and-no-headlines/.

3. Eric Trump, foreword to Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump (New York: Hatchette Book Group, 2017), xii; Adam Kelsey and Ali Rogin, “Steve Bannon Says Media ‘Always Wrong’ about Trump, President ‘Maniacally Focused’ on Agenda,” ABC News, February 23, 2017, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/steve-bannon-media-wrong-trump/story?id=45691100.

4. James Neugass, quoted in The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English, ed. Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson (Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2006), 87.

Chapter 1: Pre-existing Conditions

1. “Transcript of the President’s Speech, Conceding His Defeat by Clinton,” New York Times, November 4, 1992, B5, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/04/us/1992-elections-disappointment-transcript-president-s-speech-conceding-his-defeat.html.

2. “Transcript of President Barack Obama with Univision,” LATimes.com, October 25, 2010, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/10/transcript-of-president-barack-obama-with-univision.html.

3. Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform in El Paso, Texas,” May 10, 2011, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/10/remarks-president-comprehensive-immigration-reform-el-paso-texas.

4. Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President in an ‘Open for Questions’ Roundtable,” September 28, 2011, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/28/remarks-president-open-questions-roundtable.

5. Tom Cohen, “Obama administration to stop deporting some young illegal immigrants,” CNN.com, June 16, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/15/politics/immigration/index.html.

6. “2014 Executive Actions on Immigration,” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, last modified April 15, 2015, https://www.uscis.gov/immigrationaction. The 2014 order also further relaxed standards of eligibility for the 2012 order.

7. Ariane de Vogue and Tal Kopan, “Deadlocked Supreme Court Deals Big Blow to Obama Immigration Plan,” CNN.com, June 23, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/politics/immigration-supreme-court/index.html.

8. That latter argument—that to qualify as a “natural-born citizen” under Article II of the Constitution an American must be born of American parents—originated, curiously, in a learned 1916 pamphlet arguing that the Republican presidential nominee Charles Evans Hughes was disqualified because of his father’s British birth. The author, Breckenridge Long, would rise high in the Democratic Party, culminating his career as Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s immigration commissioner, notorious for his indifferent response to the desperate Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany and Austria. See United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Breckinridge Long,” Holocaust Encyclopedia, https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008298. The 1916 pamphlet can be read at https://www.scribd.com/doc/68922032/Natural-Born-Citizen-Within-Meaning-of-Constitution-by-Breckenridge-Long-Democrat-1916.

9. Josh Clinton and Carrie Roush, “Poll: Persistent Partisan Divide Over ‘Birther’ Question,” NBC News, August 10, 2016, http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/poll-persistent-partisan-divide-over-birther-question-n627446.

10. Meet the Press, NBC, February 13, 2011, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/41536793/ns/meet_the_press-transcripts/t/meet-press-transcript-feb/.

11. It should be noted that the “I take him at his word” formula was originally coined by Hillary Clinton back in 2008. In an interview with Steve Kroft on CBS’s 60 Minutes, she added a new twist: asked whether Obama was a Muslim, she replied, “There’s nothing to base that on”—and then added lethally, “as far as I know.” 60 Minutes, CBS, March 2, 2008, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/all-eyes-on-ohio-29-02-2008/4/.

12. Aliyah Shahid, “Donald Trump Takes Lead in Gop Primary Poll, Beats Romney, Huckabee, Palin, Gingrich, Bachmann, Paul,” New York Daily News, April 15, 2011, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-takes-lead-gop-primary-poll-beats-romney-huckabee-palin-gingrich-bachmann-paul-article-1.112460.

13. Dan Balz and Robert Costa, “Gov. Scott Walker: ‘I Don’t Know’ Whether Obama Is a Christian,” Washington Post, February 21, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/walker-says-he-is-unaware-whether-obama-is-a-christian/2015/02/21/6fde0bd0-ba17-11e4-bc30-a4e75503948a_story.html.

14. Bruce Ackerman, “The Court Packs Itself,” American Prospect, December 3, 2001, http://prospect.org/article/court-packs-itself.

15. Elaina Plott, “Eric Cantor: ‘If You’ve Got That Anger Working for You, You’re Gonna Let It Be,’” Washingtonian, July 26, 2017, https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/07/26/eric-cantor-republicans-obamacare-donald-trump/.

16. John McCain, Senate floor statement, July 25, 2017, https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/7/mccain-on-senate-floor-today.

17. “Direction of Country,” RealClearPolitics, accessed September 11, 2017, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/direction_of_country-902.html.

18. Tom Perkins, letter to the editor, Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2014, https://www.wsj.com/articles/progressive-kristallnacht-coming-1390600169.

19. Nathan Vardi, “Inside the Obama Stock Market’s 235% Return,” Forbes, January 17, 2017, https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2017/01/17/inside-the-obama-stock-markets-235-rise/.

20. “Man Carries Assault Rifle to Obama Protest—and It’s Legal,” CNN.com, August 17, 2009, http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/17/obama.protest.rifle/.

21. Manny Fernandez, Richard Pérez-Peña, and Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Five Officers Killed as Payback, Chief Says,” New York Times, July 9, 2016, A1, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/us/dallas-police-shooting.html.

22. Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism (New York: Basic Books, 2012).

Chapter 2: Enablers

1. Hugh Hewitt, Twitter, August 17, 2017, 8:34 p.m., https://twitter.com/hughhewitt/status/898387559230742528.

2. Hugh Hewitt, Twitter, August 17, 2017, 8:36 p.m., https://twitter.com/hughhewitt/status/898388112274997248; Hewitt, August 17, 2017, 8:39 p.m., https://twitter.com/hughhewitt/status/898388940347932672; Hewitt, August 17, 2017, 8:40 p.m., https://twitter.com/hughhewitt/status/898389181885431813.

3. Dan Balz, “After Charlottesville, Republicans Remain Stymied over What to Do about Trump,” Washington Post, August 19, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-charlottesville-republicans-remain-stymied-over-what-to-do-about-trump/2017/08/19/774bddd4-81d4-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html.

4. David A. Fahrenthold, “Trump Recorded Having Extremely Lewd Conversation about Women in 2005,” Washington Post, October 8, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html.

5. Alex Isenstadt, “RNC Halts Victory Project Work for Trump,” Politico, October 8, 2016, http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/rnc-halts-all-victory-project-work-for-trump-229363.

6. Matt Fuller, “Paul Ryan Responds to Donald Trump’s Misogyny,” Huffington Post, October 7, 2016, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-ryan-donald-trump-misogyny-silence_us_57f81f60e4b068ecb5de8a5c.

7. A recording of the call would become public only in March 2017, but its gist was widely reported almost immediately afterward. See Matthew Boyle, “Exclusive—Audio Emerges of When Paul Ryan Abandoned Donald Trump: ‘I Am Not Going to Defend Donald Trump—Not Now, Not in the Future,’” Breitbart, March 13, 2017, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/13/exclusive-audio-emerges-of-when-paul-ryan-abandoned-donald-trump-i-am-not-going-to-defend-donald-trump-not-now-not-in-the-future/.

8. Travis Andersen, “Ayotte and Other Republicans Criticize Trump’s Lewd Remarks,” Boston Globe, October 8, 2016, https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/10/07/ayotte-and-other-republicans-criticize-trump-lewd-remarks/XbLfZbuEzBMdVlX4coAtMP/story.html.

9. “McConnell: Trump Must Apologize for ‘Repugnant’ Comments,” Politico, October 7, 2016, http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/mcconnell-trump-must-apologize-for-repugnant-comments-229332.

10. David Weigel, “Sen. Mike Lee Urges Trump to Quit, as Utah Republicans Abandon Their Party’s Nominee,” Washington Post, October 8, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/08/sen-mike-lee-urges-trump-to-quit-as-utah-republicans-flee-from-their-presidential-nominee/.

11. Reena Flores, “Republicans Who Have Called on Donald Trump to Quit 2016 Race,” CBS News, October 8, 2016, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republicans-who-have-called-on-donald-trump-to-quit-2016-race/.

12. John Thune, Twitter, October 8, 2016, 9:51 a.m., https://twitter.com/SenJohnThune/status/784798261781598208.

13. Cristiano Lima, “‘I’m Out’: Rep. Chaffetz Withdraws His Endorsement of Trump,” Politico, October 8, 2016, http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/rep-chaffetz-withdraws-his-endorsement-of-trump-229335.

14. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, October 7, 2016, 9:19 p.m., https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/784609194234306560.

15. WikiLeaks, Twitter, October 7, 2016, 1:32 p.m., https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/784491543868665856.

16. Roger Stone, Twitter, October 1, 2016, 9:52 p.m., https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/782443074874138624.

17. “WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Dashes Hopes of #NeverHillary Alt-Right with Boring 2-Hour Informercial,” Week, October 4, 2016, http://theweek.com/speedreads/652833/wikileaks-julian-assange-dashes-hopes-neverhillary-altright-boring-2hour-informercial.

18. Ken Meyer, “Alex Jones Rips ‘Hillary Butt-Plug’ Julian Assange After Disappointing WikiLeaks Announcement,” Mediaite, October 4, 2016, https://www.mediaite.com/online/alex-jones-rips-hillary-butt-plug-julian-assange-after-disappointing-wikileaks-announcement/.

19. Chris Kahn, “Clinton Leads Trump by 5 Points in Presidential Race: Reuters/Ipsos Poll,” Reuters, October 7, 2016, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll-idUSKCN1272F1.

20. “HRC Paid Speeches,” WikiLeaks, https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927.

21. Ibid.

22. Third presidential debate, University of Nevada–Las Vegas, Paradise, NV, October 19, 2016. See “Final 2016 Presidential Debate (Full) | The New York Times,” YouTube video, 1:33:01, posted by “The New York Times,” October 19, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_pEb1bDN-w.

23. Scott Clement and Emily Guskin, “Post-ABC Tracking Poll Finds Race Tied, as Trump Opens Up an 8-Point Edge on Honesty,” Washington Post, November 2, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/02/tracking-poll-finds-race-tied-as-trump-opens-up-an-8-point-edge-on-honesty/.

24. Mark Hensch, “Trump: ‘I Love WikiLeaks,’” Hill, October 10, 2016, http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/300327-trump-i-love-wikileaks.

25. “Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Rally in Fletcher, North Carolina,” C-SPAN video, 43:18, https://www.c-span.org/video/?417259-1/donald-trump-campaigns-fletcher-north-carolina; Judd Legum, “Trump mentioned Wikileaks 164 times in last month of election, now claims it didn’t impact one voter,” ThinkProgress, January 8, 2017, https://thinkprogress.org/trump-mentioned-wikileaks-164-times-in-last-month-of-election-now-claims-it-didnt-impact-one-40aa62ea5002.

26. “Re: Conservative Catholicism,” WikiLeaks, https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4364.

27. “Re: opening for a Catholic Spring? just musing . . . ,” WikiLeaks, https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6293.

28. “U.S. Catholics Open to Non-Traditional Families,” Pew Research Center, September 2, 2015, http://www.pewforum.org/2015/09/02/u-s-catholics-open-to-non-traditional-families/.

29. Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “WikiLeaks Emails Appear to Show Clinton Spokeswoman Joking about Catholics and Evangelicals,” Washington Post, October 12, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/10/12/wikileaks-emails-show-clinton-spokeswoman-joking-about-catholics-and-evangelicals/.

30. Cooper Allen, “Pence at Liberty University Calls on Christians to Forgive Trump,” USA Today, October 12, 2016, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/10/12/mike-pence-liberty-trump-forgive/91948768/.

31. Jennifer Jacobs, Twitter, October 12, 2016, 10:30 a.m., https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/786257660324622336.

32. Charles J. Chaput, “About Those Unthinking, Backwards Catholics,” First Things, October 13, 2016, https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2016/10/about-those-unthinking-backwards-catholics.

33. Eric Fehrnstrom, “Clinton’s Revolution against the Catholic Church,” Boston Globe, October 20, 2016, https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/10/20/clinton-revolution-against-catholic-church/GrFpxMOUpKtGUCqPK95B6J/story.html.

34. Julie Asher, “WikiLeaks Hack Exposes Clinton Staff’s Past Catholic Conversations,” National Catholic Reporter, October 13, 2016, https://www.ncronline.org/news/politics/wikileaks-hack-exposes-clinton-staffs-past-catholic-conversations.

35. Marc A. Thiessen, “Hillary Clinton Is a Threat to Religious Liberty,” Washington Post, October 13, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-is-a-threat-to-religious-liberty/2016/10/13/878cdc36-9150-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html.

36. Nick Gass, “Trump Rips Pope Francis for Visiting Mexican Border,” Politico, February 11, 2016, http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/donald-trump-pope-francis-mexican-border-219154.

37. Daniel Burke, “Pope Suggests Trump ‘Is Not Christian,’” CNN.com, February 18, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/18/politics/pope-francis-trump-christian-wall/.

38. Donald Trump, Facebook, February 18, 2016, 9:23 a.m., https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/posts/10156658168535725.

39. Craig Silverman and Jeremy Singer-Vine, “The True Story Behind the Biggest Fake News Hit of the Election,” BuzzFeed News, December 16, 2016, https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/the-strangest-fake-news-empire.

40. Alan Abramowitz and Steven Webster, “All Politics Is National: The Rise of Negative Partisanship and the Nationalization of U.S. House and Senate Elections in the 21st Century” (paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 16–19, 2015), http://stevenwwebster.com/research/all_politics_is_national.pdf.

41. Niraj Chokshi, “The 100-plus Times Donald Trump Assured Us That America Is a Laughingstock,” Washington Post, January 27, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/27/the-100-plus-times-donald-trump-has-assured-us-the-united-states-is-a-laughingstock/.

42. Richard Johnson, “DC Private Schools Giving Kellyanne Conway the Brush-Off,” New York Post, December 28, 2016, http://pagesix.com/2016/12/28/dc-private-schools-giving-kellyanne-conway-the-brush-off/.

43. David Sanders, “Principled Losers,” Radix Journal, May 23, 2016. Archived at http://archive.is/YcsgQ#selection-591.0-599.524.

44. Peter Augustine Lawler, “Trump Today,” National Review Online, August 7, 2016, http://www.nationalreview.com/postmodern-conservative/438751/entering-new-american-disorder.

45. Harvey C. Mansfield, “Why Donald Trump Is No Gentleman,” Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2016, A13, http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-donald-trump-is-no-gentleman-1469831003.

46. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, June 29, 2017, 8:52 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/880408582310776832.

47. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, June 29, 2017, 8:58 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/880410114456465411.

48. Christian Holub, “White House Defends Trump Tweets: He ‘Fights Fire with Fire,’” EW.com, June 29, 2017, http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/29/donald-trump-white-house-mika-brzezinski/.

49. Rush Limbaugh Show, June 13, 2017, https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/06/13/a-deep-dive-into-shakespeare-in-the-park-madness/.

50. Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, No. 68, March 14, 1788, in The Federalist (Washington, DC: Regnery, 1998), 509.

Chapter 3: Appeasers

1. Michael Barbaro, “Jeb Bush’s Image Gives G.O.P. Something to Think About Before 2016,” New York Times, May 25, 2014, A19, https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/us/politics/jeb-bush-gives-party-something-to-think-about.html.

2. Ibid.

3. “Greatest Century | Jeb Bush,” YouTube video, 1:04, posted by “Jeb Bush,” June 15, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vet1HHyYtZQr.

4. Only 3 percent of the donations to Jeb Bush’s presidential fund arrived in increments of $200 or less. More than one-quarter of the $103 million collected by Jeb Bush’s super PAC arrived in gifts of $1 million or more.

5. Alexandra Jaffe, “CNN/ORC Poll: Bush Surges to 2016 GOP Frontrunner,” CNN.com, December 28, 2014, http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/28/politics/bush-leads-gop-field-poll/index.html.

6. Donald Trump, presidential campaign announcement, New York, NY, June 16, 2015. See “Donald Trump Presidential Campaign Announcement Full Speech (C-SPAN),” YouTube video, 47:08, posted by “C-SPAN,” June 16, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apjNfkysjbM.

7. Ryan Struyk, “Ben Carson Falls from Frontrunner Status in a New National Poll,” ABC News, December 2, 2015, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ben-carson-falls-frontrunner-status-national-poll/story?id=35521989.

8. Charles Krauthammer, “The Way Forward,” Washington Post, November 9, 2012, A29.

9. Benjamin Hart, “Sean Hannity Flips on Immigration Reform, Now Supports Pathway to Citizenship,” Huffington Post, November 8, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/sean-hannity-immigration-pathway-to-citizenship_n_2096255.html.

10. Rupert Murdoch, Twitter, November 7, 2012, 4:55 p.m., https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/266343060265377794.

11. Alicia Mundy, “Sheldon Adelson: ‘I’m Basically a Social Liberal,’” Washington Wire (blog), Wall Street Journal, December 5, 2012, https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/12/05/sheldon-adelson-im-basically-a-social-liberal/.

12. Chris Cillizza, “Three Sentences on Immigration That Will Haunt Republicans in 2016,” Washington Post, July 1, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/07/01/three-sentences-on-immigration-that-will-haunt-republicans-in-2016/, citing Republican National Committee, “Growth and Opportunity Project,” https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/623664/republican-national-committees-growth-and.pdf.

13. Donald Trump, presidential campaign announcement, New York, June 16, 2015. See “Donald Trump Presidential Campaign Announcement Full Speech (C-SPAN),” YouTube video, 47:08, posted by “C-SPAN,” June 16, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apjNfkysjbM.

14. Ronald Brownstein, “How Obama Won: Marrying Old and New Democratic Coalitions,” Atlantic, November 7, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/how-obama-won-marrying-old-and-new-democratic-coalitions/264884/. Brownstein did not explicitly include the latter three groups in the coalition, but any definition of the “ascendant” in 2010s America must include them.

15. David Brady and Douglas Rivers, “Decoding Trump’s Supporters,” Defining Ideas, September 15, 2015, http://www.hoover.org/research/decoding-trumps-supporters.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid.

18. “Trump Supporters Think Obama Is a Muslim Born in Another Country,” Public Policy Polling, September 1, 2015, http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2015/08/trump-supporters-think-obama-is-a-muslim-born-in-another-country.html.

19. Ibid.

20. Donald Trump, presidential campaign announcement, New York, NY, June 16, 2015. See “Donald Trump Presidential Campaign Announcement Full Speech (C-SPAN),” YouTube video, 47:08, posted by “C-SPAN,” June 16, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apjNfkysjbM.

21. Republican primary debate, Cleveland, OH, televised by Fox News Network, August 6, 2015. See “First Republican Primary Debate—Main Stage—August 6 2015 on Fox News,” YouTube video, 1:55:17, posted by “2016 US Presidential Debates,” April 15, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rU4W3yfd58.

22. Robert Costa, Philip Rucker, and Dan Balz, “Donald Trump Plots His Second Act,” Washington Post, October 7, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-plots-his-second-act/2015/10/06/305790c2-6c68-11e5-9bfe-e59f5e244f92_story.html.

23. Javier de Diego, “Despite Having D.C.’s Toughest Job, RNC Chair Priebus Doesn’t Want Pity,” CNN.com, April 20, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/20/politics/reince-priebus-republican-national-committee/index.html.

24. Drew Griffin, Marshall Cohen, and Scott Zamost, “Trump Paid $12.5 Million to His Own Businesses during Race,” CNN.com, December 16, 2016, http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/16/news/companies/donald-trump-campaign-fec/index.html.

25. Christine Wang, “Trump Says Billionaire, Former Critic Paul Singer Visited White House,” CNBC.com, February 16, 2017, http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/16/trump-says-billionaire-former-critic-paul-singer-visited-white-house.html.

26. Nicholas Fandos, “Corporations Open Spigot to Bankroll Inauguration,” New York Times, January 16, 2017, A12, http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/15/us/politics/trump-inauguration-donations-corporations.html; Fredreka Schouten, “What’s Happened to Trump’s Leftover Inaugural Money? Six Months Later, We Don’t Know,” USA Today, July 20, 2017, modified July 22, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/07/20/what-happened-president-trumps-leftover-inaugural-money-six-months-later-we-dont-know/493397001/.

27. David Wright, Tal Kopan, and Julia Manchester, “Cruz Unloads with Epic Takedown of ‘Pathological Liar,’ ‘Narcissist’ Donald Trump,” CNN.com, May 3, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/donald-trump-rafael-cruz-indiana/index.html.

28. Ted Cruz, Facebook, September 23, 2016, 12:24 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/tedcruzpage/posts/10154476728267464.

29. Will Jordan, Twitter, October 19, 2016, 10:24 a.m., https://twitter.com/williamjordann/status/788792988503769088.

30. Joshua Green and Sasha Issenberg, “Inside the Trump Bunker, with Days to Go,” Bloomberg Businessweek, October 27, 2016, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go.

31. Mark Levin Show, April 5, 2016. See Josh Feldman, “Mark Levin Rips #NeverTrump ‘Buffoons’: You Would ‘Passively’ Help Hillary Win?,” Mediaite, April 6, 2016, https://www.mediaite.com/online/mark-levin-rips-nevertrump-buffoons-you-would-passively-help-hillary-win/.

32. CNN Tonight, CNN, August 7, 2015.

33. Sam Reisman, “Fox News Responds to Trump’s Latest ‘Twitter Poll’ with First-Rate Trolling,” Mediaite, January 26, 2016, http://www.mediaite.com/online/fox-news-responds-to-trumps-latest-twitter-poll-with-first-rate-trolling/.

34. Sam Reisman, “Trump Attacks Megyn Kelly Again: Nobody Knew Her Before the Debate,” Mediaite, January 25, 2016, http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-attacks-megyn-kelly-again-nobody-knew-her-before-the-debate/.

35. Sam Reisman, “Fox Responds to Trump’s Latest Attack on Megyn Kelly: Trump Is Showing a Lot of Fear,” Mediaite, January 25, 2016, https://www.mediaite.com/online/fox-responds-to-trumps-latest-attack-on-megyn-kelly-trump-is-showing-a-lot-of-fear/.

36. David A. Fahrenthold, “Trump Announced His Gifts to Veterans. Here’s What We Learned,” Washington Post, May 30, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/05/30/tomorrow-trump-will-give-more-details-about-his-donations-to-vets-heres-what-we-still-dont-know/.

37. The Kelly File, Fox News Network, October 25, 2016.

38. Chris Spargo, “Megyn Kelly Says Trump Aide Dan Scavino Is Responsible for Inciting Violent Threats against Her—and That She and Her Kids Have Needed Armed Guards to Protect Them for 16 Months,” Daily Mail, December 8, 2016, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4014680/Megyn-Kelly-says-Trump-aide-Dan-Scavino-responsible-inciting-violent-threats-against-kids-needed-armed-guards-protect-16-months.html.

39. Dan Gunderman, “Sean Hannity Brings up Seth Rich Again, Alludes to DNC Emails and Suspicious Murder,” New York Daily News, June 23, 2017, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/sean-hannity-brings-seth-rich-alludes-dnc-emails-article-1.3272124.

40. Fox News Sunday, Fox News Network, June 25, 2017.

41. Kellyanne Conway, interview by Chuck Todd, Meet the Press, NBC, January 22, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/conway-press-secretary-gave-alternative-facts-860142147643.

42. Chris Ariens, “MSNBC Wins Its First Week Ever in Prime Time,” Ad Week, May 22, 2017, http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/for-1st-time-in-17-years-fox-news-was-3rd-in-prime-time-demo/329902.

43. David E. Bernstein, Lawless: The Obama Administration’s Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law (New York: Encounter, 2015).

44. Kurt Schlichter, Twitter, August 25, 2017, 6:43 p.m., https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/901258810966200320.

Chapter 4: Plunder

1. Transparency International, “Corruption Perceptions Index 2016,” January 25, 2017, https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2016.

2. Peter Applebome, “Gingrich Gives Up $4 Million Advance on His Book Deal,” New York Times, December 31, 1994, A01, http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/31/us/gingrich-gives-up-4-million-advance-on-his-book-deal.html.

3. Brian Montopoli, “Daschle Withdraws HHS Nomination,” CBS News, February 3, 2009, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/daschle-withdraws-hhs-nomination/.

4. Carol D. Leonning, Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S. Helderman,“Trump’s Business Sought Deal on a Moscow Trump Tower during Campaign,” Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trumps-business-sought-deal-on-a-moscow-trump-tower-during-campaign/2017/08/27/595964f6-8ba0-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953_video.html.

5. Dan Merica, “Trump on Pace to Surpass 8 Years of Obama’s Travel Spending in 1 Year,” CNN.com, April 11, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/10/politics/donald-trump-obama-travel-costs/index.html.

6. Nicholas Fandos, “Budget Deal Allots $120 Million More for First Family’s Security,” New York Times, May 2, 2017, A18, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/us/politics/secret-service-trump-protection.html.

7. Kevin Johnson, “Exclusive: Secret Service Depletes Funds to Pay Agents Because of Trump’s Frequent Travel, Large Family,” USA Today, August 21, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/21/secret-service-cant-pay-agents-because-trumps-frequent-travel-large-family/529075001/.

8. Laura Strickler, Analisa Novak, and Julianna Goldman, “Trump Kids’ Ski Vacation Incurs over $300,000 in Security Costs,” CBS News, September 29, 2017, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-kids-ski-vacation-incurs-over-300000-in-security-costs/.

9. “Exclusive: Like Mother Like Daughter! Tiffany Trump and Marla Maples Flaunt Their Enviable Figures in Bikinis as They Soak up the Italian Sunshine aboard a Luxury Yacht,” Daily Mail, July 16, 2017, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4701466/Tiffany-Trump-Marla-Maples-aboard-luxury-yacht.html.

10. Jonathan O’Connell, “Trump D.C. Hotel Turns $2 Million Profit in Four Months,” Washington Post, August 10, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-dc-hotel-turns-2-million-profit-in-four-months/2017/08/10/23bd97f0-7e02-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html.

11. “Schedule B for ALL Line #’s—Candidate & Committee Viewer,” Committee: REBUILDING AMERICA NOW, Federal Election Commission, accessed September 28, 2017, http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00618876/1177312/sb/ALL.

12. Alexandra Berzon, “Trump Hotel in Washington Saw Strong Profit in First Four Months of 2017,” Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-hotel-in-washington-saw-strong-profit-in-first-four-months-of-2017-1502424589.

13. Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy, “Republican Committees Have Paid Nearly $1.3 Million to Trump-Owned Entities This Year,” Washington Post, August 21, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/08/21/republican-committees-have-spent-nearly-1-3-million-at-trump-owned-properties-this-year/.

14. Robert Frank, “Mar-a-Lago Membership Fee Doubles to $200,000,” CNBC.com, January 25, 2017, https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/25/mar-a-lago-membership-fee-doubles-to-200000.html.

15. Ashley Feinberg, “Trump’s 2020 Campaign Has Already Paid Out $600K—to Trump,” Wired, July 20, 2017, https://www.wired.com/story/trump-2020-campaign-money/.

16. Paul Sonne, “U.S. Military’s Space in Trump Tower Costs $130,000 a Month,” Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-militarys-space-in-trump-tower-costs-130-000-a-month-1500428508.

17. Steve Eder and Jennifer Medina, “Settlement Is Approved in Trump University Suit,” New York Times, April 1, 2017, A16, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/us/trump-university-settlement.html.

18. This account is based on the superb reporting of Bloomberg News. See Caleb Melby and David Kocieniewski, “Inside the Troubled Kushner Tower: Empty Offices and Mounting Debt,” Bloomberg News, March 22, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-22/kushners-troubled-tower-debt-empty-offices-and-rising-fees.

19. Susanne Craig, Jo Becker, and Jesse Drucker, “A Second Empire by Trump’s Side,” New York Times, January 8, 2017, A01, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/us/politics/jared-kushner-trump-business.html.

20. Emily Rauhala and William Wan, “In a Beijing Ballroom, Kushner Family Pushes $500,000 ‘Investor Visa’ to Wealthy Chinese,” Washington Post, May 6, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-a-beijing-ballroom-kushner-family-flogs-500000-investor-visa-to-wealthy-chinese/2017/05/06/cf711e53-eb49-4f9a-8dea-3cd836fcf287_story.html.

21. Ned Parker and Jonathan Landay, “Exclusive: Trump Son-in-Law Had Undisclosed Contacts with Russian Envoy—Sources,” Reuters, May 26, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-fbi-kushner-exclusive-idUSKBN18N018.

22. A helpful summary (with links) of the Spanish-language reporting on the conversations between Trump and Macri can be found here: https://thinkprogress.org/there-is-a-lot-more-to-the-trump-argentina-story-e4a5026a959c.

23. Kailash Babar, “Donald Trump Meets Indian Partners, Hails PM Modi’s Work,” Economic Times (Mumbai), November 17, 2016, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/donald-trump-meets-indian-partners-hails-pm-modis-work/articleshow/55465060.cms.

24. Tara John, “Ivanka Trump Had Business at Stake When She Met Japan’s Prime Minister,” Fortune, December 5, 2016, http://fortune.com/2016/12/05/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-japan-shinzo-abe/.

25. Rachel Abrams, “Trump Brand Scuttles Deal Over Firm’s Official Links,” New York Times, June 13, 2017, B3, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/business/ivanka-trump-brand-japanese-business-deal.html.

26. Jana Winter and Elias Groll, “Here’s the Memo That Blew Up the NSC,” Foreign Policy, August 10, 2017, http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/10/heres-the-memo-that-blew-up-the-nsc/.

27. Michael Sullivan, “Who’s the New Philippine Envoy? The Man Building Trump Tower Manila,” NPR, November 22, 2016, http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/11/22/502895797/whos-the-new-philippine-envoy-the-man-building-trump-tower-manila.

28. “Transcript of Call between President Trump and Philippine President Duterte,” Washington Post, http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/politics/transcript-of-call-between-president-trump-and-philippine-president-duterte/2446/.

29. Steve Eder and Ben Protess, “Snarl of Foreign Ties Arises in Trump Hotel Deal,” New York Times, March 23, 2017, A1, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/business/trump-organization-scion-hotel-deal.html.

30. Erika Kinetz, “China Grants Preliminary Approval to 38 New Trump Trademarks,” Associated Press, March 9, 2017, https://apnews.com/8f54b14808a2459f9efcb0089f41f056/china-grants-preliminary-approval-38-new-trump-trademarks.

31. Michael Kruse, “Donald Trump Says He ‘Called’ the ’08 Crash. Here’s What Really Happened,” Politico, October 7, 2016, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/donald-trump-says-he-called-the-08-crash-heres-what-really-happened-214327.

32. Adam Davidson, “Donald Trump’s Worst Deal,” New Yorker, March 13, 2017, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal.

33. Nathan Layne, Ned Parker, Svetlana Reiter, Stephen Grey, and Ryan McNeill, “Russian Elite Invested Nearly $100 Million in Trump Buildings,” Reuters, March 17, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/.

34. Nick Penzenstadler, Steve Reilly, and John Kelly, “Most Trump Real Estate Now Sold to Secretive Buyers,” USA Today, June 13, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/13/trump-property-buyers-make-clear-shift-secretive-llcs/102399558/.

35. Jean Eaglesham and Lisa Schwartz, “Startup That Got a Seat at White House Roundtable Is Part-Owned by Kushner Family,” Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/startup-that-got-a-seat-at-white-house-roundtable-is-part-owned-by-kushner-family-1500045800.

36. Jared Kushner, Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 278e), https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3534020/Jared-Kushner-Financial-Disclosure.pdf.

37. Jennifer Calfas, “Eric Trump Says He’ll Give the President Quarterly Updates on Business Empire,” Fortune, March 24, 2017, http://fortune.com/2017/03/24/eric-trump-president-business-organization/.

38. Susanne Craig, “Trump’s Empire: A Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties,” New York Times, August 21, 2016, A1, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/donald-trump-debt.html; Robert Costa, “Trump Family Members Met with GOP Leaders to Discuss Strategy,” Washington Post, May 27, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/27/trump-family-members-met-with-gop-leaders-to-discuss-strategy/.

39. Dave Burke and Erica Tempesta, “‘I Miss Her in New York!’ Eric Trump shares photo of himself and sister Ivanka at the White House, as she posts a sweet snap of her eldest son at the Smithsonian museum,” Daily Mail, March 10, 2017, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4300780/Eric-Trump-poses-sister-Ivanka-White-House.html.

40. Associated Press, “President Trump’s Daughter-in-Law Lara Has a New Job Helping the Trump Campaign,” Fortune, March 29, 2017, http://fortune.com/2017/03/29/donald-trump-campaign-lara/.

41. Drew Harwell and Tom Hamburger, “Despite Promise, Trump’s Business Offers Little Information about Foreign Profits,” Washington Post, May 24, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/despite-promise-trumps-business-offers-little-information-about-foreign-profits/2017/05/24/e4667da4-4091-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html.

42. Michael M. Grynbaum, “Trump Attacks News Media, Which Then Battle Among Themselves,” New York Times, January 12, 2017, A19, http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/business/media/donald-trump-buzzfeed-cnn.html.

43. Kellyanne Conway, interview by George Stephanopoulos, This Week, ABC, January 22, 2017.

44. Susanne Craig, “Trump’s Empire: A Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties,” New York Times, August 21, 2016, A01, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/donald-trump-debt.html.

45. Ibid.

46. Timothy O’Brien, interview by Kelly McEvers, All Things Considered, NPR, January 13, 2017, http://www.npr.org/2017/01/13/509722763/timothy-obrien-trump-could-divest-or-sell-assets-to-avoid-conflicts-of-interest; Theodoric Meyer and Matthew Nussbaum, “Trump reports assets of at least $1.4 billion in financial disclosure,” Politico, June 16, 2017, http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/16/us-ethics-office-releases-trumps-financial-disclosure-239649.

47. Sam Bloch, Jeremy Olds, Christian Erin-Madsen, and Renata Mosci, “Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Failed to Disclose Their Multimillion-Dollar Art Collection,” Artnet.com, May 25, 2017, https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-art-970010; “Jared Kushner Didn’t Disclose Startup Stake,” WSJ What’s News (podcast), 7:16, Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2017, http://www.wsj.com/podcasts/jared-kushner-didnt-disclose-startup-stake/42D3337E-5265-4C09-BCD5-FE756294FE69.html.

48. Charles Sumner, “Republicanism vs. Grantism,” Speech in the US Senate, May 31, 1872, in Charles Sumner, Charles Sumner: His Complete Works, vol. 20, ed. George Frisbie Hoar (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1900; Project Gutenberg, 2016), 145, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51025/51025-h/51025-h.htm#REPUBLICANISM_VS_GRANTISM.

49. Hui Chen, “Mission Matters,” LinkedIn, June 25, 2017, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mission-matters-hui-chen.

50. Adam Edelman, “Trump Has Offered up 1 Replacement Nearly 3 Months after Firing 46 Remaining Obama-Era U.S. Attorneys,” New York Daily News, June 4, 2017, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-1-replacement-3-months-firing-46-u-s-attorneys-article-1.3217910.

51. Laura Jarrett, “President Has Rare Meeting with US Attorney Nominee,” CNN.com, July 20, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/20/politics/donald-trump-jessie-liu-dc-us-attorney/index.html.

52. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, July 24, 2017, 5:49 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/889467610332528641.

53. Tim O’Brien, Twitter, July 27, 2017, 12:55 a.m., https://twitter.com/TimOBrien/status/890435464007741442/photo/1.

54. “‘It’s Not on Me, You Know, They’re Looking at a Lot of Things,’” New York Times, July 20, 2017, A12, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-transcript.html.

55. “From George Washington to Samuel Vaughan, 21 March 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-01-02-0325. Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 1, 24 September 1788 – 31 March 1789, ed. Dorothy Twohig (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1987), 424–30.

56. Tal Shalev and Lahav Harkov, “Kafe Knesset for May 25,” Jewish Insider, May 25, 2017, http://jewishinsider.com/11762/kafe-knesset-for-may-25/.

57. “Ivanka Trump Takes Donald Trump Seat at G20 Leaders’ Table,” BBC.com, July 8, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-40541611.

58. Eugene Scott, Evan Perez, and Pamela Brown, “DOJ: Hiring Kushner Does Not Violate Anti-Nepotism Law,” CNN.com, January 21, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/21/politics/jared-kushner-white-house-job-justice-department-ruling/index.html.

59. “Thomas Jefferson to John Garland Jefferson, 25 January 1810,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-02-02-0145. Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810, ed. J. Jefferson Looney (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), 183–184.

Chapter 5: Betrayals

1. Glenn Thrush, Twitter, May 24, 2017, 1:29 p.m., https://twitter.com/glennthrush/status/867477564956323840.

2. Maggie Haberman, Twitter, May 24, 2017, 12:51 p.m., https://twitter.com/maggienyt/status/867468019882115072.

3. Carrie Dann, “Trump’s Physician Says His Health Is ‘Astonishingly Excellent,’” NBC News, December 14, 2015, http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trumps-physician-says-his-health-astonishingly-excellent-n479786.

4. Clemence Michallon, “‘Thank You, Baby’: Donald Trump Pays Tribute to Kellyanne Conway for Going on CNN to ‘Destroy’ His Critics When ‘My Men Are Petrified to Go On,’” Daily Mail, January 19, 2017, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4138948/Donald-Trump-pays-tribute-Kellyanne-Conway.html.

5. Saba Hamedy, “Kellyanne Conway: Comey’s Firing ‘Has Nothing to Do with Russia,’” CNN.com, May 9, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/politics/kellyanne-conway-anderson-cooper-comey-firing-cnntv/index.html.

6. Donald Trump, interview by Lester Holt, NBC Nightly News, NBC, May 11, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-reveals-he-asked-comey-whether-he-was-under-investigation-n757821.

7. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, May 12, 2017, 4:59 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/863000553265270786.

8. Mike Pence, interview by John Dickerson, Face the Nation, CBS, January 15, 2017.

9. Shawn Boburg and Aaron C. Davis, “Trump Attorney Jay Sekulow’s Family Has Been Paid Millions from Charities They Control,” Washington Post, June 27, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/trump-attorney-jay-sekulows-family-has-been-paid-millions-from-charities-they-control/2017/06/27/6428d988-5852-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html.

10. Condoleezza Rice, speech at the 2000 Republican National Convention, Philadelphia, PA, August 1, 2000, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/elections/ricetext080100.htm.

11. Michael Flynn, speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention, Cleveland, OH, July 18, 2016, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/18/se.04.html.

12. James V. Grimaldi, Dion Nissenbaum, and Margaret Coker, “Ex-CIA Director: Mike Flynn and Turkish Officials Discussed Removal of Erdogan Foe from U.S.,” Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/ex-cia-director-mike-flynn-and-turkish-officials-discussed-removal-of-erdogan-foe-from-u-s-1490380426.

13. Andy Kroll, “Donald Trump’s White House Counsel Has One Main Job—and He’s Failing at It,” Mother Jones, June 2, 2017, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/mcgahn-trump-flynn-russia-white-house/.

14. Tara Palmeri, “Trump’s Aides Build Their Own Empires in the West Wing,” Politico, July 6, 2017, http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/06/trump-west-wing-staff-kushner-240244.

15. Jonathan Martin and Glenn Thrush, “Trump Steps in with Late Pitch to Wary Senate,” New York Times, June 28, 2017, A01, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/us/health-care-bill-trump-pence.html.

16. Ibid.

17. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, September 30, 2017, 7:19 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/914087234869047296?lang=en.

18. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, September 30, 2017, 7:26 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/914089003745468417?lang=en.

19. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, October 1, 2017, 8:22 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/914465475777695744?lang=en.

20. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, July 1, 2017, 3:41 p.m., https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/881281755017355264.

21. Donald Trump, speech in Phoenix, AZ, August 22, 2017. See “President Trump Ranted For 77 Minutes in Phoenix. Here’s What He Said,” Time.com, August 23, 2017, http://time.com/4912055/donald-trump-phoenix-arizona-transcript/.

22. Nancy Cook and Josh Dawsey, “‘He Is Stubborn and Doesn’t Realize How Bad This Is Getting,’” Politico, August 16, 2017, http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/16/trump-charlottesville-temper-chaos-241721.

23. Rachelle Blinder and Celeste Katz, “WATCH: Donald Trump Security Guard Hits Protester in Face after Taking Banner,” New York Daily News, September 4, 2015, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/trump-security-guard-hits-protester-face-video-article-1.2348516.

24. Kate Bennett, “Trump family hires familiar face as chief usher,” CNN.com, June 23, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/23/politics/trump-timothy-harleth-chief-usher/index.html.

25. Errol Louis, “Trump Hires the Wedding Planner—to Oversee NY Federal Housing Program?,” CNN.com, June 16, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/opinions/patton-urban-development-louis-opinion/index.html.

26. Shawn Boburg, “Trump Seeks Sharp Cuts to Housing Aid, except for Program That Brings Him Millions,” Washington Post, June 20, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/trump-seeks-sharp-cuts-to-housing-aid-except-for-program-that-brings-him-millions/2017/06/20/bf1fb2b8-5531-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html.

27. Annie Ropeik, “Hundreds of Carrier Factory Jobs to Move to Mexico,” NPR, June 26, 2017, http://www.npr.org/2017/06/26/534365565/hundreds-of-carrier-factory-jobs-to-move-to-mexico.

28. Chris Cillizza, “Donald Trump’s Cabinet Members, Ranked by Their Over-the-Top Praise of Trump,” CNN.com, June 12, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/trump-cabinet-ranked/index.html.

29. John McCain, press release, February 20, 2017, https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/2/statement-by-sasc-chairman-john-mccain-on-president-trump-s-selection-of-lt-gen-h-r-mcmaster-for-national-security-advisor.

30. David A. Graham, “Donald Trump Jr.’s Reply to an Offer of Russian Government Attorney: ‘I Love It,’” Atlantic, July 11, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/from-russia-with-love/533235/.

31. “Newt Gingrich Is Not Sure He Would Help Estonia against a Russian Invasion,” YouTube video, 0:43, from an appearance by Newt Gingrich at the 2016 Republican National Convention, posted by “consumer,” July 22, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78JZCvBfuNI.

32. Susan B. Glasser, “Trump National Security Team Blindsided by NATO Speech,” Politico, June 5, 2017, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/05/trump-nato-speech-national-security-team-215227.

33. Michael D. Shear and Mark Landler, “Trump Expected to Back NATO Mutual Aid Pledge,” New York Times, May 25, 2017, A09, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/world/trump-nato.html.

34. Susan B. Glasser, “Trump National Security Team Blindsided by NATO Speech.”

35. “McMaster Says ‘of Course’ Trump Supports NATO Article 5,” Reuters, May 27, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-g7-summit-nato-idUSKBN18N0LV.

36. Eliot A. Cohen, “To an Anxious Friend . . . ,” American Interest, November 10, 2016, https://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/11/10/to-an-anxious-friend/.

37. Eliot A. Cohen, “Don’t Join This Team,” Washington Post, November 17, 2016, A17, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-told-conservatives-to-work-for-trump-one-talk-with-his-team-changed-my-mind/2016/11/15/f02e1fac-ab7c-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html.

38. “Sanders, Scaramucci Full White House Briefing,” YouTube video, 49:07, from a White House press briefing on July 21, 2017, posted by “CNN,” July 21, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQadb9WbDR4.

39. “Press Briefing by White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and Incoming White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci,” White House, July 21, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/07/21/press-briefing-white-house-principal-deputy-press-secretary-sarah.

40. Axios, Twitter, March 24, 2017, 8:28 a.m., https://twitter.com/axios/status/845296198839881728.

41. David Frum, “Advice for Those Weighing Jobs in the Trump Administration,” Atlantic, January 28, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/trump-administration-jobs/514805/.

42. Peter Thiel, speech at the National Press Club, Washington, DC, October 31, 2016, http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/31/peter-thiel-on-trump-and-the-crazy-condition-of-our-country/.

43. Donald Trump, speech in Fort Dodge, IA, November 12, 2015; Donald Trump, speech in Greenville, NC, September 6, 2016.

44. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, October 23, 2016, 4:40 p.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/790337063489040384.

45. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, April 21, 2017, 3:32 a.m., https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/855368516920332289.

46. Martin Pengelly, “Donald Trump Berates London Mayor over Response to Terror Attacks,” Guardian, June 4, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/04/trump-berates-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-terror-attacks.

47. Stephen J. Adler, Jeff Mason, and Steve Holland, “Exclusive: Trump Vows to Fix or Scrap South Korea Trade Deal, Wants Missile System Payment,” Reuters, April 27, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-trump-southkorea-exclusive-idUSKBN17U09M.

48. Bryan Harris, Katrina Manson, and Robin Harding, “South Korea Suspends Deployment of US Missile Shield,” Financial Times, June 8, 2017, https://www.ft.com/content/19060384-4b34-11e7-919a-1e14ce4af89b.

49. “Iran Nuclear: Trump Extends Obama’s ‘Worst Deal Ever,’” BBC.com, May 17, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39950827.

50. Ron Nixon, “Homeland Security Will Start Building Border Wall Prototypes This Summer,” New York Times, June 28, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/us/politics/homeland-security-will-start-building-border-wall-prototypes-this-summer.html.

51. Eli Stokols, “Jeb Bush: George W. Spent Too Much Money,” Politico, May 21, 2015, http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/jeb-bush-differences-economic-issues-george-w-bush-118179.

52. Grover Norquist, speech at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference, Washington, DC, February 11, 2012. See “Grover Norquist Remarks,” C-SPAN video, 23:36, https://www.c-span.org/video/?304376-9/grover-norquist-remarks.

53. Jennifer Steinhauer, “Ryan Now Faces Tea Party Forces He Helped Unleash,” New York Times, March 3, 2016, A13, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/us/politics/paul-ryan-faces-tea-party-forces-that-he-helped-unleash.html.

54. Philip Rucker, “Trump Refuses to Endorse Paul Ryan in GOP Primary: ‘I’m Just Not Quite There Yet,’” Washington Post, August 2, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-refuses-to-endorse-paul-ryan-in-gop-primary-im-just-not-quite-there-yet/2016/08/02/1449f028-58e9-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html; Eric Bradner, “Paul Ryan: ‘I’m just not ready’ to back Donald Trump,” CNN.com, May 5, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/05/politics/paul-ryan-donald-trump-gop-nominee/index.html.

55. Jeffrey M. Jones, “Avg. Midterm Seat Loss 36 for Presidents Below 50% Approval,” Gallup News, August 9, 2010, http://www.gallup.com/poll/141812/avg-midterm-seat-loss-presidents-below-approval.aspx.

56. McKay Coppins, “The Prince of Oversight,” Atlantic, March 31, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/jason-chaffetz-oversight/521271/.

57. Anna Brand, “Pence: Trump Is a Businessman, Not a Career Politician,” NBC News, October 4, 2016, http://www.nbcnews.com/card/pence-trump-businessman-not-career-politician-n659766.

58. Todd Beamon, “Mitch McConnell on Trump: ‘He’s Learning the Job,’” Newsmax, April 13, 2017, http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/McConnell-Trump/2017/04/13/id/784257/.

59. “Speaker Ryan: ‘The President’s New at This, He’s New to Government.’ (C-SPAN),” YouTube video, 1:13, from the House Speaker’s weekly briefing on June 8, 2017, posted by “C-SPAN,” June 8, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8DmceX5tD4.

60. Face the Nation, Twitter, July 2, 2017, 7:54 a.m., https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/881526435332194305/video/1.

61. Aaron Blake, “Trump Is Starting to Tear the GOP Apart,” Washington Post, August 24, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/24/trump-is-starting-to-tear-the-gop-apart/.

62. William D. Cohan, “Decades-Old Questions Over Trump’s Wealth and Education,” New York Times, September 29, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/business/dealbook/decades-old-questions-over-trumps-wealth-and-education.html.

63. Michael Kruse, “‘He’s a Performance Artist Pretending to Be a Great Manager,’” Politico, February 28, 2017, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/hes-a-performance-artist-pretending-to-be-a-great-manager-214836.

64. Tara Palmeri, “Need to Reach Trump? Call Rhona,” Politico, March 26, 2017, http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/rhona-graff-trump-conduit-236484.

65. Associated Press, “Trump’s Use of Private Cellphone Raises Security Concerns,” CNBC.com, May 30, 2017, https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/30/trump-to-world-leaders-call-me-maybe--on-my-cellphone.html.

66. Andrew Exum, “Cheapening a Sacred Space,” Atlantic, January 23, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/no-way-to-honor-sacrifice/514097/; Ashley Parker and David Nakamura, “In tweet storm, Trump decries ‘illegal leaks’ and asserts ‘all agree’ he has complete power to pardon,” Washington Post, July 22, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/07/22/trump-denounces-illegal-leaks-in-new-accounts-of-his-campaigns-contact-with-russia/; Jim Sciutto, Twitter, July 27, 2017, 10:58 a.m., https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/890632536673492993/photo/1.

67. Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, “Bannon Vows a Daily Fight for ‘Deconstruction of the Administrative State,’” Washington Post, February 23, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-wh-strategist-vows-a-daily-fight-for-deconstruction-of-the-administrative-state/2017/02/23/03f6b8da-f9ea-11e6-bf01-d47f8cf9b643_story.html.

Chapter 6: Enemies of the People

1. Will Jordan, Twitter, July 26, 2017, 7:29 a.m., https://twitter.com/williamjordann/status/890217480236519426/photo/1.

2. “Large Majorities See Checks and Balances, Right to Protest as Essential for Democracy,” Pew Research Center, March 2, 2017, http://www.people-press.org/2017/03/02/large-majorities-see-checks-and-balances-right-to-protest-as-essential-for-democracy/.

3. Laura Santhanam, “New Poll: 70% of Americans Think Civility Has Gotten Worse since Trump Took Office,” The Rundown (blog), PBS, July 3, 2017, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/new-poll-70-americans-think-civility-gotten-worse-since-trump-took-office/.

4. Donald Trump, speech at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference, National Harbor, MD, February 24, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/24/remarks-president-trump-conservative-political-action-conference.

5. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, January 8, 2017, 8:05 p.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/818307689323368448.

6. “Executive Order: Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements,” White House, January 25, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/executive-order-border-security-and-immigration-enforcement-improvements.

7. Alana Abramson, “Mitch McConnell Doesn’t Think Mexico Will Pay for President Trump’s Border Wall,” Time, March 9, 2017, http://time.com/4696656/mitch-mcconnell-president-trump-mexico-wall/.

8. Jeremy Burke, “Trump Floated a Solar-Paneled Border Wall with Mexico—Here’s What It Would Look Like,” Business Insider, June 22, 2017, http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-solar-border-wall-mexico-images-2017-6.

9. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, January 18, 2017, 4:34 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/821697182235496450; Twitter, January 18, 2017, 4:44 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/821699672687448064.

10. Ylan Q. Mui and Steven Overly, “The Myth and Reality of Donald Trump’s Job Claims,” Washington Post, January 3, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/01/03/trump-reiterates-threat-of-a-border-tax-this-time-general-motors-is-in-the-crosshairs/.

11. Todd Spangler, “Trump Officials Greet Ford’s Plan to Import Chinese Cars,” USA Today, June 20, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2017/06/20/trump-officials-greet-fords-plan-import-chinese-cars/103049064/.

12. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, February 26, 2017, 10:16 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/835916511944523777.

13. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, June 23, 2017, 5:43 p.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/878413313188802560.

14. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, March 18, 2017, 6:15 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/843088518339612673.

15. Michael Birnbaum and Rick Noack, “Following Trump’s Trip, Merkel Says Europe Can’t Rely On ‘Others.’ She Means the U.S.,” Washington Post, May 28, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/following-trumps-trip-merkel-says-europe-cant-rely-on-us-anymore/2017/05/28/4c6b92cc-43c1-11e7-8de1-cec59a9bf4b1_story.html.

16. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, February 17, 2017, 1:48 p.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/832708293516632065.

17. David Jackson, “Trump Again Calls Media ‘Enemy of the People,’” USA Today, February 24, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/24/donald-trump-cpac-media-enemy-of-the-people/98347970/.

18. For the record, Trump is not wrong that Amazon’s rise was greatly assisted by online retailing’s exemption from the duty to collect and remit state sales taxes. That exemption has long been upheld as party dogma by congressional Republicans, abetted by outside lobbying groups like Americans for Tax Reform. By 2016, however, Amazon not only collected sales in all forty-five states that have one, but had begun to advocate a federal Internet sales tax too. Amazon does not collect sales taxes from third-party sellers who use its platform. It seems unlikely that President Trump has any awareness of any of these details.

19. Michael M. Grynbaum, “A Network vs. the President,” New York Times, July 6, 2017, B01, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/business/media/jeffrey-zucker-cnn-trump.html.

20. Kellyanne Conway, interview by Chuck Todd, Meet the Press, NBC, January 22, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-01-22-17-n710491.

21. Nic Dawes, “Maneuvering a New Reality for US Journalism,” Columbia Journalism Review, November 22, 2016, https://www.cjr.org/the_feature/trump_journalism_press_freedom_global.php.

22. Peter Bull, “Theresa May Has a Very Special Technique for Avoiding Questions,” The Conversation, October 24, 2016, https://theconversation.com/theresa-may-has-a-very-special-technique-for-avoiding-questions-67424.

23. “Never Said That | The Briefing,” YouTube video, 1:42, posted by “The Briefing,” September 28, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHclppeLdi0.

24. Masha Gessen, “The Putin Paradigm,” NYR Daily, New York Review of Books, December 13, 2016, http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/12/13/putin-paradigm-how-trump-will-rule/.

25. Kellyanne Conway, interview by Alisyn Camerota, New Day, CNN, September 13, 2016.

26. Lou Cannon, “When Spokesmen Lie,” Washington Post, April 18, 1988, A2, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/04/18/when-spokesmen-lie/9dd79b06-2367-4ff2-9aba-07def9479016/.

27. Arthur Sylvester, “The Government Has the Right to Lie,” Saturday Evening Post, November 18, 1967, 10.

28. Jake Tapper, Twitter, June 29, 2017, 6:20 p.m., https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/880596947421278208/photo/1.

29. Gary Langer, “6 Months In, a Record Low for Trump, with Troubles from Russia to Health Care (POLL),” ABC News, July 16, 2017, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/months-record-low-trump-troubles-russia-health-care/story?id=48639490.

30. Ibid.

31. Fox & Friends, Fox News Network, June 23, 2017.

32. Fox & Friends, Fox News Network, June 8, 2017.

33. Hannity, Fox News Network, June 29, 2017, http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2017/06/29/levin-good-to-know-where-liberals-finally-draw-line-sekulow-speaks-out-about-scandals-that-need-investigation.html.

34. Sean Hannity, Twitter, November 23, 2016, 12:37 p.m., https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/801525154740314112.

35. Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush, “‘I’m Right Here!’ Spicer Says, Keeping Podium While Toiling to Find Successor,” New York Times, June 21, 2017, A13, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/us/politics/im-right-here-sean-spicer-says-while-toiling-to-find-successor.html.

36. “White House Briefing Bar: Media Groups Condemn Exclusion,” BBC.com, February 25, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39088770.

37. Donald Trump, speech in Phoenix, AZ, August 22, 2017. See “President Trump Ranted for 77 Minutes in Phoenix. Here’s What He Said,” Time.com, August 23, 2017, http://time.com/4912055/donald-trump-phoenix-arizona-transcript/.

38. Mark Landler and Maggie Haberman, “Trump Again Blames Media in U.S. Divide,” New York Times, August 23, 2017, A01, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/us/politics/trump-rally-arizona.html.

39. Chris Bucher, “LISTEN: Police Scanner Audio from Ben Jacobs & Greg Gianforte Incident,” Heavy.com, May 24, 2017, modified May 25, 2017, http://heavy.com/news/2017/05/greg-gianforte-body-slam-ben-jacobs-audio-police-scanner-assault-listen-montana-reporter.

40. Fox News Specialists, Fox News Network, May 25, 2017.

41. Rush Limbaugh Show, May 25, 2017, https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/05/25/montana-special-election-your-host-joins-the-condemnation-of-the-studly-manly-republican-who-beat-up-a-skinny-millennial-reporter-and-is-running-against-a-radical-leftist-posing-as-a-cowboy/.

42. Thomas Phippen, “Montana Politician Raised $116,000 AFTER He Choke-Slammed a Reporter,” Daily Caller, June 28, 2017, http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/28/montana-politician-raised-116000-after-he-choke-slammed-a-reporter/.

43. Greg Bluestein, “Georgia 6th: Montana Victor Calls for Help Defeating ‘Liberals in Georgia,’” AJC.com, May 27, 2017, http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/05/27/georgia-6th-montana-victor-calls-for-help-defeating-liberals-in-georgia/.

44. Adrian Chen, “The Agency,” New York Times Magazine, June 7, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html.

45. Massimo Calabresi, “Inside Russia’s Social Media War on America,” Time.com, May 18, 2017, http://time.com/4783932/inside-russia-social-media-war-america/.

46. Nancy Gibbs, “A Note to Our Readers,” Time, January 24, 2017, http://time.com/4645541/donald-trump-white-house-oval-office/.

47. Lindsey Ellefson, “Chris Cuomo, Trump Aide Tangle over ‘Travel Ban’ Tweets,” CNN.com, June 5, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/05/politics/cuomo-and-gorka-spar-cnntv/index.html.

48. Hannity, Fox News Network, June 5, 2017.

49. Aaron Blake, “Sarah Huckabee Sanders Lambastes Fake News—and Then Promotes a Journalist Accused of Deceptive Videos,” Washington Post, June 27, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/27/sarah-huckabee-sanders-lambastes-fake-news-while-promoting-journalist-known-for-deceptive-videos/.

50. “Does Macron Wash His Hands after Shaking Hands with Workers?,” First Draft News, April 28, 2017, https://crosscheck.firstdraftnews.com/checked-french/macron-wash-hands-shaking-hands-workers.

51. Dustin Volz, “U.S. Far-Right Activists, WikiLeaks, and Bots Help Amplify Macron Leaks: Researchers,” Reuters.com, May 6, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-cyber/u-s-far-right-activists-wikileaks-and-bots-help-amplify-macron-leaks-researchers-idUSKBN1820QO.

52. Jordan Pearson, “The Same Twitter Bots That Helped Trump Tried to Sink Macron, Researcher Says,” Motherboard, Vice, July 6, 2017, https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kwak5/the-same-twitter-bots-that-helped-trump-tried-to-sink-macron-researcher-says.

53. Mike Cernovich, “Susan Rice Requested Unmasking of Incoming Trump Administration Officials,” Medium, April 2, 2017, https://medium.com/@Cernovich/susan-rice-requested-unmasking-of-incoming-trump-administration-officials-30085b5cff16.

54. Jim Hoft, “Update=> Erdogan Holds 1,500 US Servicemen Hostage at Incirlik Over Attempted Coup,” Gateway Pundit, July 17, 2016, http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/07/update-erdogan-holds-1500-us-servicemen-hostage-incirlik-attempted-coup/; Michael M. Grynbaum, “A Pro-Trump Blog Gains White House Credentials,” New York Times, February 14, 2017, A18, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/business/the-gateway-pundit-trump.html.

55. “Rex Tillerson and Wilbur Ross Do Sword Dance in Saudi Arabia,” YouTube video, 8:46, posted by “LIVE SATELLITE NEWS,” May 20, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li9dGCC2SdU.

56. Julie Pace and Jonathan Lemire, “Trump’s Frustrations Are Boiling over after Comey Dismissal,” Associated Press, May 13, 2017, https://www.apnews.com/f6b3c3ebe5164c188072f5787357360f.

57. CNN Newsroom, CNN, July 7, 2017. See “CNN’s David Gergen on Trump Putin Meeting: ‘This Was Presidential, This Was Big League Stuff,’” YouTube video, 0:51, posted by “GOP War Room,” July 7, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNpqjRTHskk.

58. “Van Jones: Trump Became President in That Moment,” YouTube video, 1:45, posted by “CNN,” February 28, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPhsSqXHRAs.

59. Donald Trump, joint press event with Polish President Andrzej Duda, Warsaw, Poland, July 6, 2017, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1707/06/es.02.html.

60. Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, “Polish Journalists Face Strict Work Limitations for Covering Parliament,” Civil Liberties Union for Europe, January 31, 2017, https://www.liberties.eu/en/news/limitations-on-work-of-parliamentary-correspondents-poland.

61. Tom Kludt, “Other Presidents Boosted Free Press Abroad; Trump Bashes It,” CNN.com, July 6, 2017, http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/06/media/poland-speech-donald-trump-media-attack/index.html.

62. The phrase was generally reported as “Are these the ones who have insulted you?” but my Atlantic colleague Julia Ioffe, a native speaker of Russian, explained to me that this was not quite right. The phrase Putin used was more something that a parent would say to an upset child than something one man would say to another who had suffered a true affront.

63. Committee to Protect Journalists, “Journalists Detained in Wake of Turkey Referendum,” April 21, 2017, https://cpj.org/2017/04/journalists-detained-in-wake-of-turkey-referendum.php.

64. Committee to Protect Journalists, “South African Reporters Attacked Covering Protests, Broadcaster Suspends Journalists,” June 24, 2016, https://cpj.org/2016/06/south-african-reporters-attacked-covering-protests.php.

65. “NDTV India Ordered off Air on Nov 9 over Coverage of Pathankot Attack,” Hindustan Times (New Delhi), November 3, 2016, http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/ndtv-india-to-be-taken-off-air-for-a-day-over-pathankot-attack-coverage/story-ABLkwpoDHpmS4rdg5jSUCK.html.

Chapter 7: Rigged System

1. Jens Manuel Krogstad and Mark Hugo Lopez, “Black Voter Turnout Fell in 2016, Even as a Record Number of Americans Cast Ballots,” Fact Tank (blog), Pew Research Center, May 12, 2016, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/12/black-voter-turnout-fell-in-2016-even-as-a-record-number-of-americans-cast-ballots/. This paper is the source for all the numbers cited in the first three paragraphs of this chapter.

2. Jonathan Martin, “Young Blacks Voice Doubts About Clinton,” New York Times, September 5, 2016, A1, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/us/politics/young-blacks-voice-skepticism-on-hillary-clinton-worrying-democrats.html.

3. “FAQ,” VoteTexas.gov, accessed September 28, 2017, http://www.votetexas.gov/faq/#2071.

4. Zachary Roth, “Wisconsin Throws up Major Voter Registration Hurdle,” MSNBC.com, March 25, 2016, http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/wisconsin-throws-major-voter-registration-hurdle.

5. Laura Santhanam, “New Poll: 70% of Americans Think Civility Has Gotten Worse since Trump Took Office,” The Rundown (blog), PBS, July 3, 2017, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/new-poll-70-americans-think-civility-gotten-worse-since-trump-took-office/.

6. Paul Ryan, “The Path to Prosperity,” speech at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, April 5, 2011, http://www.aei.org/publication/the-path-to-prosperity/.

7. Donald J. Trump Jr., Twitter, October 3, 2012, 1:23 p.m., https://twitter.com/donaldjtrumpjr/status/253545899958087680.

8. Donald Trump, interview by David Brody, The Brody File, Christian Broadcasting Network, September 9, 2016, http://www1.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2016/09/09/brody-file-exclusive-donald-trump-says-this-will-be-the-last-election-that-the-republicans-have-a-chance-of-winning.

9. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, November 27, 2016, 3:30 p.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/802972944532209664.

10. Jesse T. Richman, Gulshan A. Chattha, and David C. Earnest, “Do Non-Citizens Vote in U.S. Elections?,” Electoral Studies 36 (December 2014), 149–57, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2014.09.001.

11. Cleve R. Wootson Jr., “Sen. Al Franken Claims That Donald Trump’s New Ad on the Economy Is Anti-Semitic,” Washington Post, November 6, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/06/sen-al-franken-claims-that-donald-trumps-new-ad-on-the-economy-is-anti-semitic/.

12. Anti-Defamation League, Twitter, November 6, 2016, 10:40 a.m., https://twitter.com/ADL_National/status/795289665809088512.

13. Erica R. Hendry, “A Trump Commission Requested Voter Data. Here’s What Every State Is Saying,” The Rundown (blog), PBS, June 30, 2017, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/trump-commission-requested-voter-data-heres-every-state-saying/.

14. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, July 1, 2017, 9:07 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/881137079958241280.

15. Alexa Corse, “South Carolina May Prove a Microcosm of U.S. Election Hacking Efforts,” Wall Street Journal, July 16, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/south-carolina-may-prove-a-microcosm-of-u-s-election-hacking-efforts-1500202806.

16. Alana Abramson, “President Trump’s Lawyer Made a Mistake in Describing James Comey’s Testimony,” Time, June 8, 2017, http://time.com/4811888/comey-testimony-marc-kasowitz-mistake/.

17. Russian assistance to congressional Republicans is an insufficiently appreciated aspect of interference in the 2016 election. See Eric Lipton and Scott Shane, “Russians Hacked Democrats Vying for House Seats,” New York Times, December 15, 2016, A1, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/house-democrats-hacking-dccc.html.

18. Jo Becker, Adam Goldman, and Matt Apuzzo, “Emails Disclose Trump Son’s Glee at Russian Offer,” New York Times, July 12, 2017, A1, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/us/politics/trump-russia-email-clinton.html.

19. Tom Hamburger, Carol D. Leonnig, and Rosalind S. Helderman, “Trump Campaign Emails Show Aide’s Repeated Efforts to Set up Russia Meetings,” Washington Post, August 14, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-campaign-emails-show-aides-repeated-efforts-to-set-up-russia-meetings/2017/08/14/54d08da6-7dc2-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html.

20. Issie Lapowsky, “Did Trump’s Data Team Help Russians? Facebook Might Have the Answer,” Wired, July 14, 2017, https://www.wired.com/story/trump-russia-data-parscale-facebook/.

21. Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima, and Greg Miller, “Secret CIA Assessment Says Russia Was Trying to Help Trump Win White House,” Washington Post, December 9, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html.

22. Ibid.

23. Domenico Montanaro and Arnie Seipel, “McConnell, Differing with Trump, Says He Has ‘Highest Confidence’ in Intel Agencies,” NPR, December 12, 2016, http://www.npr.org/2016/12/12/505260062/mcconnell-differing-with-trump-says-he-has-highest-confidence-in-intel-agencies.

24. Rebecca Shabad, “Russia Sanctions Bill Stalls in House as Trump Prepares for First Putin Meeting,” CBS News, July 6, 2017, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-sanctions-bill-stalls-in-house-as-trump-prepares-for-first-putin-meeting/.

25. Josh Dawsey and Elana Schor, “Trump Clashed with Multiple GOP Senators over Russia,” Politico, August 23, 2017, http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/23/trump-senate-yell-phone-calls-241950.

26. “‘The Administration Then Chose to Defame Me,’” New York Times, June 9, 2017, A22, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/politics/senate-hearing-transcript.html.

27. David Frum, Twitter, May 25, 2017, 2:55 p.m., https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/867861680591695873.

28. This quote and others were all helpfully compiled by Natasha Bertrand and Maxwell Tani of Business Insider. See Natasha Bertrand and Maxwell Tani, “‘Collusion Is Not a Crime’: Trump’s Media Allies Have a Striking New Talking Point That Experts Say Is ‘Flawed’ and ‘Absurd,’” Business Insider, June 27, 2017, http://www.businessinsider.com/collusion-russia-trump-crime-2017-6.

29. Ibid.

30. Bertrand and Tani, “‘Collusion Is Not a Crime.”

31. Hannity, Fox News Network, June 22, 2017, http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2017/06/22/gingrich-calls-for-gop-to-focus-on-deep-tax-cuts-tom-price-health-care-bill-move-in-right-direction.html.

32. Ibid.

33. Fox News Sunday, Fox News Network, June 25, 2017.

34. Dennis Prager, Twitter, July 14, 2017, 1:55 p.m., https://twitter.com/dennisprager/status/885920697708564480.

35. Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Carrie Dann, “Putting the Trump-Russia Timeline into Perspective,” First Read (newsletter), NBC News, July 10, 2017, http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/putting-trump-russia-timeline-perspective-n781236.

36. “Russian Election: Big Victory for Putin-Backed Party United Russia,” BBC.com, September 19, 2016, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37403242.

37. David Wagner, “Sorry, Conservatives, De Tocqueville Did Not Call the 2012 Election,” Atlantic, November 8, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/sorry-conservatives-de-tocqueville-did-not-call-2012-election/321393/.

38. Jeffrey Sullivan, “Armed Group Appears at Council to Oppose Statue’s Removal,” Rivard Report, August 16, 2017, https://therivardreport.com/armed-group-appears-at-council-to-oppose-statues-removal/.

39. Abraham Lincoln to James C. Conkling, August 26, 1863, in The Language of Liberty: The Political Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Joseph R. Fornieri (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2003), 669.

40. Ryan J. Reilly, “A Guy in a Trump Shirt Carried a Gun Outside of a Virginia Polling Place. Authorities Say That’s Fine,” Huffington Post, November 4, 2016, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-supporter-gun-voter-intimidation-virginia_us_581cf16ee4b0aac624846eb5.

41. Christopher Ingraham, “The Average Gun Owner Now Owns 8 Guns—Double What It Used to Be,” Washington Post, October 21, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/21/the-average-gun-owner-now-owns-8-guns-double-what-it-used-to-be/.

42. Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Infrastructure,” New York, NY, August 15, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/08/15/remarks-president-trump-infrastructure.

43. Donald Trump, speech in Phoenix, AZ, August 22, 2017. See “President Trump Ranted for 77 Minutes in Phoenix. Here’s What He Said,” Time.com, August 23, 2017, http://time.com/4912055/donald-trump-phoenix-arizona-transcript/.

44. Ben Schreckinger, “Trump on Protester: ‘I’d like to Punch Him in the Face,’” Politico, February 23, 2016, http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/donald-trump-punch-protester-219655.

45. Donald Trump, speech in Brentwood, NY, July 28, 2017.

46. Ibid.

47. Asawin Suebsaeng, Twitter, July 28, 2017, 2:34 p.m., https://twitter.com/swin24/status/891003873296490497.

Chapter 8: America Alone

1. H. R. McMaster and Gary D. Cohn, “America First Doesn’t Mean America Alone,” Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-first-doesnt-mean-america-alone-1496187426.

2. “Highlights of Reuters Interview with Trump,” Reuters, April 27, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-interview-highlights-idUSKBN17U0D4.

3. Jeff Zeleny, Dan Merica, and Kevin Liptak, “Trump’s ‘Fire and Fury’ Remark Was Improvised but Familiar,” CNN.com, August 9, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/09/politics/trump-fire-fury-improvise-north-korea/index.html.

4. “Remarks by President Trump to the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly,” White House, September 19, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/09/19/remarks-president-trump-72nd-session-united-nations-general-assembly.

5. Chun Han Wong, Jonathan Cheng, and Alastair Gale, “‘Duped by Trump’: U.S. Taunted Over Carl Vinson Aircraft Carrier Tale,” Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/false-narrative-on-u-s-aircraft-carrier-elicits-jeers-in-asia-1492577625.

6. “WSJ Trump Interview Excerpts: China, North Korea, Ex-Im Bank, Obamacare, Bannon, More,” Washington Wire (blog), Wall Street Journal, April 12, 2017, https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2017/04/12/wsj-trump-interview-excerpts-china-north-korea-ex-im-bank-obamacare-bannon.

7. Richard Wike, Bruce Stokes, Jacob Poushter, and Janell Fetterolf, “U.S. Image Suffers as Publics Around World Question Trump’s Leadership,” Pew Research Center, June 26, 2017, http://www.pewglobal.org/2017/06/26/u-s-image-suffers-as-publics-around-world-question-trumps-leadership/.

8. Greg Miller, “Trump Urged Mexican President to End His Public Defiance on Border Wall, Transcript Reveals,” Washington Post, August 3, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/you-cannot-say-that-to-the-press-trump-urged-mexican-president-to-end-his-public-defiance-on-border-wall-transcript-reveals/2017/08/03/0c2c0a4e-7610-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html.

9. Dorothy Manevich and Hanyu Chwe, “Globally, More People See U.S. Power and Influence as a Major Threat,” Fact Tank (blog), Pew Research Center, August 1, 2017, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/08/01/u-s-power-and-influence-increasingly-seen-as-threat-in-other-countries/.

10. Ben Knight, “Merkel Congratulates Trump as Politicians Express Shock,” DW.com, November 9, 2016, http://www.dw.com/en/merkel-congratulates-trump-as-politicians-express-shock/a-36318866.

11. Tracy Wilkinson and Brian Bennett, “After Trump Reluctantly Certifies Iran Is Obeying Nuclear Deal, He Slaps It with New Sanctions,” Los Angeles Times, July 18, 2017, http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-fg-trump-iran-20170718-story.html.

12. Thomas Erdbrink, “Arab Rift with Qatar Is Welcome in Tehran,” New York Times, July 5, 2017, A4, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/04/world/middleeast/for-iran-qatar-crisis-is-a-welcome-distraction.html.

13. Karen DeYoung and Ellen Nakashima, “UAE Orchestrated Hacking of Qatari Government Sites, Sparking Regional Upheaval, According to U.S. Intelligence Officials,” Washington Post, July 16, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/uae-hacked-qatari-government-sites-sparking-regional-upheaval-according-to-us-intelligence-officials/2017/07/16/00c46e54-698f-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html.

14. Marc Champion and Marek Strzelecki, “The Real Impact of Trump’s Foreign Trips Happens After He Leaves,” Bloomberg News, July 18, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-18/when-trump-goes-abroad-radical-change-follows-in-his-footsteps.

15. Fredreka Schouten, “President Trump’s Hotel Received $270,000 from Saudi Arabia,” CNBC.com, June 6, 2017, http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/06/president-trumps-dc-hotel-received-270000-from-saudi-arabia.html.

16. Donald Trump, speech in Warsaw, Poland, July 6, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/07/06/remarks-president-trump-people-poland-july-6-2017.

17. Matthew Tostevin, “Trump Factor Weighs as Vietnam Intensifies Crackdown on Dissidents,” Reuters, August 2, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-arrests-idUSKBN1AI0LF.

18. Miles Parks and Tamara Keith, “Timeline of Trump and Russia in Mid-2016: A Series of Coincidences or Something More?,” NPR, July 17, 2017, http://www.npr.org/2017/07/17/537323120/timeline-of-trump-and-russia-in-mid-2016-a-series-of-coincidences-or-something-m.

19. George W. Bush, “President Bush, European Leaders Act to Fight Global Terror,” June 25, 2003, https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/06/20030625-12.html.

20. William J. Clinton, “Remarks to Future Leaders of Europe in Brussels,” January 9, 1994. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=49643.

21. “Transcript: Donald Trump on NATO, Turkey’s Coup Attempt and the World,” New York Times, July 22, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/us/politics/donald-trump-foreign-policy-interview.html.

22. Noah Barkin, “Exclusive: White House Delivered EU-skeptic Message before Pence Visit—Sources,” Reuters, February 21, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-trump-idUSKBN1601DS.

23. Max Ehrenfreund, “‘We Are in a Trade War,’ Trump’s Commerce Secretary Says after Stern German Warning,” Washington Post, March 31, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/31/we-are-in-a-trade-war-trumps-commerce-secretary-says-after-stern-german-warning/.

24. David Lawder, “Trump Adviser Navarro: U.S., Germany Should Discuss Trade outside EU,” Reuters, March 6, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-trade-navarro-idUSKBN16D1KK.

25. “U.S.’s Tillerson praises Turkish ‘courage’ during coup attempt,” Reuters, July 9, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-turkey/u-s-s-tillerson-praises-turkish-courage-during-coup-attempt-idUSKBN19U0WE.

26. “Joint Press Conference with President Trump and German Chancellor Merkel,” White House, March 17, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/17/joint-press-conference-president-trump-and-german-chancellor-merkel.

27. Ibid.

28. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, May 30, 2017, 3:40 a.m., https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/869503804307275776.

29. Eli Watkins, “While Campaigning, Merkel Says Europeans Can’t ‘Completely’ Rely On US, Others,” CNN.com, May 28, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/28/politics/angela-merkel-donald-trump-g7/index.html.

30. Donald Trump, speech at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference, National Harbor, MD, February 24, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/24/remarks-president-trump-conservative-political-action-conference.

31. Greg Miller and Stephanie Kirchner, “Germany Orders CIA Station Chief to Leave over Spying Allegations,” Washington Post, July 10, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/germany-expels-us-intelligence-station-chief-over-spying-allegations/2014/07/10/dc60b1f0-083c-11e4-8a6a-19355c7e870a_story.html.

32. Greg Miller and Greg Jaffe, “Trump Revealed Highly Classified Information to Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador,” Washington Post, May 15, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html.

33. Lachlan Markay, Asawin Suebsaeng, and Noah Shachtman, “Trump Officials: ‘He Looks More and More Like a Complete Moron,’” Daily Beast, May 19, 2017, http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-officials-he-looks-more-and-more-like-a-complete-moron.

34. J. Lester Feder, “This Is How Steve Bannon Sees the Entire World,” BuzzFeed News, November 15, 2016, https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/this-is-how-steve-bannon-sees-the-entire-world.

35. Christopher Caldwell, speech at Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Phoenix, AZ, February 15, 2017, https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/how-to-think-about-vladimir-putin/.

36. Vivian Salama, “Trump’s Embrace of Russia Making Top Advisers Wary,” Associated Press, July 20, 2017, https://apnews.com/4b4b7e380f204b45a8c3055a5d45255e/Trump’s-embrace-of-Russia-making-top-advisers-wary.

37. Greg Jaffe and Adam Entous, “Trump Ends Covert CIA Program to Arm Anti-Assad Rebels in Syria, a Move Sought by Moscow,” Washington Post, July 19, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-ends-covert-cia-program-to-arm-anti-assad-rebels-in-syria-a-move-sought-by-moscow/2017/07/19/b6821a62-6beb-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html.

38. Elise Labott, Nicole Gaouette, and Richard Roth, “US Signals Openness to Assad Staying Put,” CNN.com, March 30, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/30/politics/tillerson-haley-syria-assad-turkey/index.html.

39. Alexander Bolton, “McConnell: Assad Must Go,” Hill, April 7, 2017, http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/327826-mcconnell-assad-must-go.

40. Ed Royce, “Chairman Royce: Assad Must Go,” press release, April 4, 2017, https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/chairman-royce-assad-must-go/.

41. Marco Rubio, “Rubio Statement on U.S. Airstrikes in Syria,” press release, April 6, 2017, https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=E4F4A2DA-C8C3-4492-BB72-3C49503F3838; Cory Gardner, “Gardner Statement on US Strikes in Syria,” press release, April 6, 2017, https://www.gardner.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/gardner-statement-on-us-strikes-in-syria; James Lankford, “Senator Lankford: Assad Must Go,” press release, April 4, 2017, https://www.lankford.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-lankford-assad-must-go; Bob Corker, “Corker Statement on U.S. Missile Strikes in Syria,” press release, April 6, 2017, https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/chair/release/corker-statement-on-us-missile-strikes-in-syria.

42. John McCain, “McCain on the Need for Action in Syria,” press release, April 6, 2017, https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/4/statement-by-sasc-chairman-john-mccain-on-the-need-for-action-in-syria; Tom Cotton, “Cotton Statement on Chemical Attack in Syria,” press release, April 4, 2017, https://www.cotton.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=651.

43. Paul Ryan, “Statement on Passage of Syria Sanctions,” press release, May 17, 2017, https://www.speaker.gov/press-release/statement-passage-syria-sanctions.

44. Mark Landler, “Rare Accord for Kaine and Pence: A More Assertive U.S. Stand on Syria,” New York Times, October 6, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/us/syria-vice-presidential-debate.html.

45. Jennifer Jacobs, “McFarland to Exit White House as McMaster Consolidates Power,” Bloomberg News, April 9, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-09/mcfarland-to-exit-white-house-as-mcmaster-consolidates-power.

46. Fredrick Kunkle, “Trump Aide Was among Record Numbers Taking a Gun through TSA Checkpoint Last Year, Police Say,” Washington Post, January 27, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/tripping/wp/2017/01/27/trump-aide-was-among-record-numbers-taking-a-gun-through-tsa-checkpoint-last-year/.

47. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, March 4, 2017, 7:02 a.m., https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837996746236182529.

48. Henry Farrell, “Sean Spicer Just Suggested That Obama Used British Intelligence to Spy on Trump. Britain Isn’t Happy,” Washington Post, March 16, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/03/16/sean-spicer-just-suggested-that-obama-used-british-intelligence-to-spy-on-trump-not-so-much/?utm_term=.be9a4cea4416.

49. Deirdre Walsh, “Justice Department: No Evidence Trump Tower Was Wiretapped,” CNN.com, September 2, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/02/politics/justice-department-trump-tower-wiretap/index.html. NSD refers to the National Security Division within the FBI.

50. “Text of Havel’s Speech to Congress,” Washington Post, February 22, 1990, A28, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/02/22/text-of-havels-speech-to-congress/df98e177-778e-4c26-bd96-980089c4fcb2/.

Chapter 9: Autoimmune Disorder

1. Michael Isikoff, “How the Trump Administration’s Secret Efforts to Ease Russia Sanctions Fell Short,” Yahoo News, June 1, 2017, https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administrations-secret-efforts-ease-russia-sanctions-fell-short-231301145.html.

2. Greg Miller, Adam Entous, and Ellen Nakashima, “National Security Adviser Flynn Discussed Sanctions with Russian Ambassador, Despite Denials, Officials Say,” Washington Post, February 9, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/national-security-adviser-flynn-discussed-sanctions-with-russian-ambassador-despite-denials-officials-say/2017/02/09/f85b29d6-ee11-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html.

3. Daniel Dale, “Six Months of Spelling Mistakes from the Trump White House: Analysis,” Toronto Star, July 19, 2017, https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/07/19/six-months-of-spelling-mistakes-from-the-trump-white-house-analysis.html.

4. Heather Nauert, Twitter, October 1, 2017, 11:26 a.m., https://twitter.com/statedeptspox/status/914557115645202432.

5. Natasha Bertrand, Twitter, February 13, 2017, 8:25 a.m., https://twitter.com/natashabertrand/status/831177597165920257.

6. 8 U.S. Code 1182. Sec. 212(f).

7. Kerry v. Din, 576 U.S. ___ (2015), https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/13-1402_e29g.pdf.

8. Order Granting Mot. TRO, Hawai’i v. Trump, No. 17-00050 DKW-KSC (D. Haw. Mar. 15, 2017). For PDF, see http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015a-d421-db68-a97b-d5e934210000. See also “Highlights from Court Ruling Halting Trump’s Revised Travel Ban,” New York Times, March 16, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/us/politics/highlights-immigration-ruling.html.

9. Order, Trump v. Hawaii, No. 16-1540 (U.S. July 19, 2017), https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/071917zr_o7jp.pdf.

10. Associated Press, “Sessions Taps Former Army General to Lead Federal Prison System,” ArmyTimes, August 1, 2017, http://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2017/08/01/sessions-taps-former-army-general-to-lead-federal-prison-system/.

11. Philip Rucker, “Trump Friend Says Priebus Is ‘In Way over His Head,’” Washington Post, February 12, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/02/12/trump-friend-says-priebus-is-in-way-over-his-head/.

12. Alan Rappeport, “Exxon Is Fined for Violating U.S. Sanctions,” New York Times, July 21, 2017, A18, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/us/politics/exxon-mobil-fined-russia-tillerson-sanctions.html.

13. Noah Daponte-Smith, “The State Department in Crisis,” National Review Online, July 6, 2017, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449267/state-department-crisis-staffing-cuts-incompetent-leaders-threaten-american-diplomacy.

14. Nicole Lewis and Kristine Phillips, “The Trump White House Keeps Mixing Up the Names of Asian Countries and Their Leaders’ Titles,” Washington Post, July 10, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/08/white-house-press-office-misidentifies-japanese-prime-minister-abe-as-president/.

15. Mike Pence, speech at the U.S. Naval Academy Commencement Ceremony, Annapolis, MD, May 26, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/26/remarks-vice-president-us-naval-academy-commencement-ceremony.

16. Little v. Barreme, 6 U.S. 170 (1804), https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/6/170/case.html.

17. Michael R. Gordon, “Trump Gives Mattis Authority to Send More Troops to Afghanistan,” New York Times, June 14, 2017, A13, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/world/asia/mattis-afghanistan-military.html.

18. Dexter Filkins, “James Mattis, a Warrior in Washington,” New Yorker, May 29, 2017, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/james-mattis-a-warrior-in-washington.

19. Josh Dawsey, Twitter, August 9, 2017, 11:45 a.m., https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/895310022502219776.

20. Joshua Berlinger, Zachary Cohen, and Angela Dewan, “Tillerson Dials Back Rhetoric after Trump’s North Korea ‘Fire and Fury’ Threats,” CNN.com, August 9, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/09/politics/north-korea-donald-trump/index.html.

21. “Statement by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis,” Release No: NR-286-17, August 9, 2017, https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/1273247/statement-by-secretary-of-defense-jim-mattis/.

22. The Reagan Battalion, Twitter, August 25, 2017, 1:49 p.m., https://twitter.com/ReaganBattalion/status/901184752094457856/video/1.

23. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, vol. 3, ed. Max Farrand (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1911), 251, http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1787#Farrand_0544-03_787.

24. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, rev. ed., vol. 2, ed. Max Farrand (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1937), 154, http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_2_5s7.html.

Chapter 10: Resentments

1. Meet the Press, NBC, July 24, 2016, https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-july-24-2016-n615706.

2. Sopan Deb, “Trump celebrates big Michigan, Mississippi wins amid branded products,” CBS News, March 8, 2016, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-celebrates-big-michigan-mississippi-wins-amid-branded-products/.

3. Republican presidential debate, Cleveland, OH, August 6, 2015.

4. Reuters video, 2:13, December 10, 2015, http://www.reuters.com/video/2015/12/11/trump-we-cant-worry-about-being-politica?videoId=366641534.

5. Louis Nelson, “Trump: Clinton, Obama Protecting Terrorists to Be ‘Politically Correct,’” Politico, June 13, 2016, http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-muslim-ban-224272.

6. Donald Trump, speech at Iowa Events Center, Des Moines, IA, December 8, 2016. See “President-Elect Donald Trump Victory Rally in Des Moines, Iowa,” C-SPAN video, 58:12, https://www.c-span.org/video/?419792-1/presidentelect-donald-trump-holds-rally-des-moines-iowa.

7. “D. L. Hughley Defends Debbie Reynolds Death Joke | TMZ,” YouTube video, 1:55, posted by “TMZ,” January 3, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3wxRkXMQcY.

8. “Why I Voted for Donald Trump,” Washington Post, November 13, 2016, A12, last modified November 23, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/opinions/trump-supporters-why-vote/.

9. Andrew Klavan, “Why I’ll Vote for Donald Trump,” PJ Media, November 6, 2016, https://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/2016/11/06/why-ill-vote-for-donald-trump/.

10. Andrew Klavan, “Be Thankful for What Trump Is Not,” PJ Media, June 4, 2017, https://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/2017/06/04/what-trump-is-not/.

11. Chris Jones, “‘Straight White Men’: Young Jean Lee Asks Audience, Herself to See Both Sides,” Chicago Tribune, February 12, 2017, http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/reviews/ct-straight-white-men-review-ent-0213-20170212-column.html.

12. “Young Voters Supported Obama Less, but May Have Mattered More,” Pew Research Center, November 26, 2012, http://www.people-press.org/2012/11/26/young-voters-supported-obama-less-but-may-have-mattered-more/.

13. Jean-Claude Lupis, “The State of Traditional TV: Updated with Q1 2017 Data,” Marketing Charts, July 26, 2017, http://www.marketingcharts.com/featured-24817.

14. J. M. Berger, “Nazis vs. ISIS on Twitter: A Comparative Study of White Nationalist and ISIS Online Social Media Networks,” George Washington University Program on Extremism, September 2016, https://cchs.gwu.edu/sites/cchs.gwu.edu/files/downloads/Nazis%20v.%20ISIS%20Final_0.pdf.

15. Jack Holmes, “Are Young, White Males Being Radicalized Online?,” Esquire, November 9, 2016, http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a50513/young-trump-voters-undercover/.

16. Lydia Saad, “Fewer Young People Say I Do—to Any Relationship,” Gallup News, June 8, 2015, http://www.gallup.com/poll/183515/fewer-young-people-say-relationship.aspx.

17. Camila Domonoske, “For First Time in 130 Years, More Young Adults Live with Parents Than with Partners,” NPR, May 24, 2016, http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/24/479327382/for-first-time-in-130-years-more-young-adults-live-with-parents-than-partners.

18. Jean M. Twenge, Ryne A. Sherman, and Brooke E. Wells, “Sexual Inactivity During Young Adulthood Is More Common Among U.S. Millennials and iGen: Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Having No Sexual Partners after Age 18,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 46, no. 2, February 2017: 433-40: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-016-0798-z.

19. Richard Fry, “For First Time in Modern Era, Living with Parents Edges Out Other Living Arrangements for 18- to 34-Year-Olds,” Pew Research Center, May 24, 2016, http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/05/24/for-first-time-in-modern-era-living-with-parents-edges-out-other-living-arrangements-for-18-to-34-year-olds/.

20. Ana Swanson, “Why Amazing Video Games Could Be Causing a Big Problem for America,” Washington Post, September 23, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/23/why-amazing-video-games-could-be-causing-a-big-problem-for-america/ (citing US Census data). Women are significantly less likely to play video games at all, and they play fewer hours on average. Those women who do play heavily skew much older than male heavy gamers. See http://essentialfacts.theesa.com.

21. Justin McCarthy, “One in Eight U.S. Adults Say They Smoke Marijuana,” Gallup News, August 8, 2016, http://www.gallup.com/poll/194195/adults-say-smoke-marijuana.aspx.

22. “Celebrating 10 Years of Porn . . . and Data!,” Pornhub, May 25, 2017, https://www.pornhub.com/insights/10-years.

23. Milo Yiannopoulos, “FULL TEXT: MILO On How Feminism Hurts Men and Women,” Breitbart, October 7, 2016, http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/10/07/full-text-milo-feminism-auburn.

24. Peter Beinart, “Fear of a Female President,” Atlantic, October 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/10/fear-of-a-female-president/497564/.

25. Philip Bump, “White Male Democrats Have Disproportionately Voted against Hillary Clinton for Eight Years Running,” Washington Post, May 5, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/05/white-male-democrats-have-disproportionately-voted-against-hillary-clinton-for-eight-years-running/.

26. Ibid.

27. Ross Douthat, “A Playboy for President,” New York Times, August 14, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/opinion/sunday/a-playboy-for-president.html.

28. Dale Beran, “How the ‘Isolated Man-Boys’ of 4chan Turned a Meme into the President of the United States,” Quartz, February 17, 2017, https://qz.com/914142/how-the-isolated-man-boys-of-4chan-turned-a-meme-into-the-president-of-the-united-states/.

29. Daniel Lombroso and Yoni Appelbaum, “‘Hail Trump!’: White Nationalists Salute the President-Elect,” Atlantic, November 21, 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/richard-spencer-speech-npi/508379/.

30. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, “Ken Salazar” (Season 14, Episode 63), Comedy Central, May 7, 2009, http://www.cc.com/video-clips/iknvhd/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-white-in-america---the-children.

31. Emily Badger, “Americans Vastly Overestimate How Diverse the Country Really Is,” CityLab, October 22, 2013, https://www.citylab.com/equity/2013/10/americans-vastly-overestimate-how-diverse-country-really/7320/.

32. Jonathan Swan, “Trump to Protesters: All Lives Matter,” Hill, February 29, 2016, http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/271159-trump-to-protesters-all-lives-matter.

33. Hannity, Fox News Network, December 6, 2016.

34. “Donald Trump: We’ll All Be Saying ‘Merry Christmas’ Again!,” YouTube video, 0:46, posted by “American Born Republic,” November 23, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9W-_El6GMc.

35. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, December 25, 2016, 4:46 a.m., https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/813003030186622976.

36. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, “Suicide Statistics,” https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics (citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data & Statistics Fatal Injury Report for 2015).

37. Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, “Opioid Overdose Deaths by Race/Ethnicity,” http://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-deaths-by-raceethnicity/ (citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

38. Jeanna Smialek, “‘Deaths of Despair’ Are Surging Among the White Working Class,” Bloomberg News, March 23, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-23/white-working-class-death-rate-to-be-elevated-for-a-generation.

39. Tami Luhby, “Working Class White Men Make Less than They Did in 1996,” CNN.com, October 5, 2016, http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/05/news/economy/working-class-men-income/index.html.

40. W. Bradford Wilcox, Andrew J. Cherlin, Jeremy E. Uecker, and Matthew Messel, “No Money, No Honey, No Church: The Deinstitutionalization of Religious Life Among the White Working Class,” Research in the Sociology of Work 23 (2012): 227–50, https://dx.doi.org/10.1108%2FS0277-2833(2012)0000023013.

41. Ronald Brownstein, “The White Working Class: The Most Pessimistic Group in America,” Atlantic, May 27, 2011, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/05/the-white-working-class-the-most-pessimistic-group-in-america/239584/.

42. Author’s own search at NYTimes.com.

43. Rush Limbaugh Show, June 3, 2015, https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/06/03/jenner_declares_i_m_the_new_normal/.

44. Selena Zito, “Taking Trump Seriously, Not Literally,” Atlantic, September 23, 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-makes-his-case-in-pittsburgh/501335/.

45. Hannity, Fox News Network, May 12, 2017, http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/05/12/judge-jeanine-donald-trump-interview-preview-sean-hannity-mainstream-media.

46. Matt Young, “Gavin McInnes, Man Who Criticised Waleed Aly, Releases Strange Video in Tel Aviv, Forced to Respond,” News.com.au, March 19, 2017, http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/gavin-mcinnes-man-who-criticised-waleed-aly-releases-strange-video-in-tel-aviv-forced-to-respond/news-story/743cd1c0b821bdad5c00d09bacea8927.

47. Publius Decius Mus [pseud.], “The Flight 93 Election,” Claremont Review of Books, September 5, 2016, http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/.

48. Ibid.

49. Ibid.

Chapter 11: Believers

1. Emily Karl, “Just 20% of Americans under 30 Approve of Trump: Poll,” Axios, August 29, 2017, https://www.axios.com/trumps-approval-among-people-under-30-reaches-new-low-2479223836.html.

2. Omarosa Manigault, interview by Jim Gilmore, Frontline, PBS, June 23, 2016, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/the-frontline-interview-omarosa-manigault/.

3. Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, “Transcript: Donald Trump Interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa,” Washington Post, April 2, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/04/02/transcript-donald-trump-interview-with-bob-woodward-and-robert-costa/.

4. “Famous Quotes by Vince Lombardi,” VinceLombardi.com © 2017 Family of Vince Lombardi c/o Luminary Group LLC, http://www.vincelombardi.com/quotes.html.

5. Justin Baragone, “‘I’m Pissed!’ Sean Hannity Absolutely Loses It Over ‘Never Trumper Jerks’ and Evan McMullin,” Mediaite, October 26, 2016, https://www.mediaite.com/online/im-pissed-sean-hannity-absolutely-loses-it-over-never-trumper-jerks-and-evan-mcmullin/.

6. Hannity, Fox News Network, November 9, 2016.

7. The Kelly File, Fox News Network, August 18, 2016.

8. Anthony Scaramucci, Twitter, August 18, 2016, 6:13 p.m., https://twitter.com/scaramucci/status/766442965724192777.

9. William McGurn, “The Cheap Moralizing of Never Trump,” Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2016, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-cheap-moralizing-of-never-trump-1476745922.

10. David Limbaugh, “The Ongoing Frustration of Trump’s Conservative Critics,” Townhall, July 7, 2017, https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2017/07/07/the-ongoing-frustration-of-trumps-conservative-critics-n2351540.

11. Barack Obama, speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Boston, MA, July 27, 2004.

12. Ingrid Melander, “France’s Le Pen Launches Election Bid with Vow to Fight Globalization,” Reuters, February 5, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-fn/frances-le-pen-launches-election-bid-with-vow-to-fight-globalization-idUSKBN15K0R1.

13. Gabriel Gatehouse, “Marine Le Pen: Who’s Funding France’s Far Right?,” BBC.com, April 3, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39478066.

14. “Election 2016: Exit Polls,” New York Times, November 8, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/election-exit-polls.html.

15. Philip Bump, “Donald Trump Got Reagan-like Support from Union Households,” Washington Post, November 10, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/10/donald-trump-got-reagan-like-support-from-union-households/.

16. Amanda Sakuma, “Trump Did Better with Blacks, Hispanics Than Romney in ’12: Exit Polls,” NBC News, November 9, 2016, https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/trump-did-better-blacks-hispanics-romney-12-exit-polls-n681386.

17. Tara Golshan, “The Women Who Helped Donald Trump Win,” Vox, January 21, 2017, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/20/14061660/women-march-washington-vote-trump.

18. Gabriella Paiella, “6 Women on Why They’re Not Voting in This Election,” The Cut, October 19, 2016, https://www.thecut.com/2016/10/women-who-are-not-voting-2016-election.html.

19. Pew Research Center, “The Generation Gap and the 2012 Election,” November 3, 2011, http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/legacy-pdf/11-3-11%20Generations%20Release.pdf.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid.

22. Ibid.

23. Ibid.

24. Ibid.

25. Ibid.

26. Ibid.

27. Teresa Ghilarducci, “Our Ridiculous Approach to Retirement,” New York Times, July 22, 2012, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/opinion/sunday/our-ridiculous-approach-to-retirement.html.

28. “41hh I Am Concerned about the Government Becoming Too Involved in Health Care,” American Values Survey Question Database, Pew Research Center, accessed September 28, 2017, http://www.people-press.org/values-questions/q41hh/concerned-government-becoming-too-involved-in-health-care/#age.

29. Vanessa Williamson, Theda Skocpol, and John Coggin, “The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism,” Perspectives on Politics 9, no. 1 (March 2011): 33, doi:10.1017/S153759271000407X.

30. Glenn Beck, “We Surround Them,” accessed September 29, 2017, http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/21018/.

31. David Frum, Why Romney Lost (Newsweek e-book, 2012), chap. 2.

32. Ibid.

33. Robert D. Putnam, “E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century, the 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture,” Scandinavian Political Studies 30, no. 2 (June 2007): 137, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9477.2007.00176.x.

34. Ed O’Keefe, “Jeb Bush Announces Presidential Bid: ‘We Will Take Command of Our Future Once Again,’” Washington Post, June 15, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/06/15/jeb-bush-to-formally-launch-presidential-campaign/.

35. “Transcript: Ted Cruz’s speech at Liberty University,” Washington Post, March 23, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-ted-cruzs-speech-at-liberty-university/2015/03/23/41c4011a-d168-11e4-a62f-ee745911a4ff_story.html; “Full text of Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign announcement,” Washington Post, April 13, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/04/13/full-text-of-marco-rubios-2016-presidential-campaign-announcement/.

36. George Gao, “Biggest Share of Whites in U.S. Are Boomers, but for Minority Groups It’s Millennials or Younger,” Fact Tank (blog), Pew Research Center, July 7, 2016, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/07/biggest-share-of-whites-in-u-s-are-boomers-but-for-minority-groups-its-millennials-or-younger/.

37. Emma Green, “It Was Cultural Anxiety That Drove White, Working-Class Voters to Trump,” Atlantic, May 9, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/white-working-class-trump-cultural-anxiety/525771/.

38. Abraham Lincoln, “Response to a Serenade,” November 10, 1864, in The Language of Liberty: The Political Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Joseph R. Fornieri (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2003), 682.

Chapter 12: Hope

1. Chris Ariens, “MSNBC Wins Its First Week Ever in Prime Time,” Ad Week, May 22, 2017, http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/for-1st-time-in-17-years-fox-news-was-3rd-in-prime-time-demo/329902.

2. Theodore Roosevelt, History as Literature (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913), 187.

3. John F. Kennedy, “Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights,” June 11, 1963. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9271.

4. Timothy Synder, Facebook, November 15, 2016, 6:57 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/timothy.david.snyder/posts/1206636702716110.

5. Matthew Reade, “Students Demand Administrators ‘Take Action’ Against Conservative Journalists,” Claremont Independent, April 17, 2017, http://claremontindependent.com/students-demand-administrators-take-action-against-conservative-journalists/.

6. Michel Foucault, The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984), 74.

7. Maria Konnikova, “Trump’s Lies vs. Your Brain,” Politico Magazine, January/February 2017, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/donald-trump-lies-liar-effect-brain-214658.

8. Eric Oliver and Thomas Wood, “A New Poll Shows 52% of Republicans Actually Think Trump Won the Popular Vote,” Washington Post, December 18, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/12/18/a-new-poll-shows-an-astonishing-52-of-republicans-think-trump-won-the-popular-vote/.

9. Michael Wolff, “A Conversation with Kellyanne Conway: ‘I’m the Face of Trump’s Movement,’” Hollywood Reporter, January 26, 2017, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/a-conversation-kellyanne-conway-im-face-trumps-movement-968579.

10. Gary Langer, “6 Months In, a Record Low for Trump, with Troubles from Russia to Health Care (POLL),” ABC News, July 16, 2017, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/months-record-low-trump-troubles-russia-health-care/story?id=48639490.

11. “Czeslaw Milosz—Nobel Lecture,” Nobelprize.org, Nobel Media AB 2014, https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1980/milosz-lecture.html.

12. “U.S. Voters Say 68–27% Let Transgender People Serve, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Voters Disapprove 5–1 of GOP Handling of Health Care,” Quinnipiac University Poll, August 3, 2017, https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2477.

13. Yael Bame, “21% of Americans Believe That Being Transgender Is a Mental Illness,” YouGov, May 17, 2017, https://today.yougov.com/news/2017/05/17/21-americans-believe-identifying-transgender-menta/.

14. Jennifer Senior, “A Book from 1998 Envisioned 2016 Election,” New York Times, November 21, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/books/richard-rortys-1998-book-suggested-election-2016-was-coming.html, quoting Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 89–90.

15. Peggy Noonan, “Trump Is Woody Allen Without the Humor,” Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-is-woody-allen-without-the-humor-1501193193.

16. Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima, and Adam Entous, “Obama’s Secret Struggle to Punish Russia for Putin’s Election Assault,” Washington Post, June 23, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/.

17. David Frum, “The Dangers of the Putin-Trump Relationship,” Atlantic, September 21, 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-and-putins-relationship/500852/.

18. Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk, “The Democratic Discontent,” Journal of Democracy 27, no. 3 (July 2016): 7–8, http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/sites/default/files/Foa%26Mounk-27-3.pdf.

19. Jacob Poushter, “40% of Millennials Ok with Limiting Speech Offensive to Minorities,” Fact Tank (blog), Pew Research Center, November 20, 2015, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/20/40-of-millennials-ok-with-limiting-speech-offensive-to-minorities/.

20. “Limited Sovereignty in the United States,” Atlantic Monthly, February 1879, 186, quoted in Alexander Keyssar, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 79. By “universal suffrage,” the unknown author meant “universal male suffrage.”

21. Bernie Sanders, presidential campaign announcement, May 26, 2015, https://berniesanders.com/bernies-announcement/.

22. David Frum, “The Conservative Case for Voting for Clinton,” Atlantic, November 2, 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/dont-gamble-on-trump/506207/.