2. Julia Hahn, “Paul Ryan Plummets to 43 Percent in New Primary Poll,” Breitbart.com, July 9, 2016.
3. James Wigderson, “Stunning: Paul Nehlen Suggests Deporting All Muslims,” Right Wisconsin, August 4, 2016, video available at youtube/PI88ehLJtEM.
4. Erick Trickey, “Charlie Sykes’ Air War: How One of the Most Influential #Nevertrumpers Is Battling His Party’s Nominee and Questioning Some Long-Held Beliefs,” Politico, August 21, 2016.
5. Ibid.
6. Robert Draper, “How Donald Trump Set Off a Civil War Within the Right-Wing Media,” New York Times Magazine, September 29, 2016.
7. Carl M. Cannon, “Who’s to Blame for Trump?,” RealClearPolitics, October 30, 2016, www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/10/30/who_is_to_blame_for_trump_132199.html.
8. Jonah Goldberg, “How the Media’s History of Smearing Republicans Now Helps Trump,” National Review, July 27, 2016.
9. Frank Bruni, “Crying Wolf, Then Confronting Trump,” New York Times, September 1, 2016.
13. THE RISE OF THE ALT RIGHT
1. Sarah Posner, “How Donald Trump’s New Campaign Chief Created an Online Haven for White Nationalists,” Mother Jones, August 22, 2016.
2. Benjamin Welton, “What, Exactly, Is the ‘Alternative Right?’ A Taxonomy,” Weekly Standard, December 21, 2015.
3. Michael Knowles, “An Actual Conservative’s Guide to the Alt-Right: 8 Things You Need to Know,” Daily Wire, September 26, 2016, www.dailywire.com/news/9441/actual-conservatives-guide-alt-right-8-things-you-michael-knowles.
4. Ibid.
5. Benjamin Welton, “What, Exactly, Is the ‘Alternative Right?’”
6. “‘Cuckservative’ Is a Racist Slur, Part 2” Ace of Spades HQ blog, July 29, 2015, ace.mu.nu/archives/358148.php.
7. Erick Erickson, “‘Cuckservative’ Is a Racist Slur and an Attack on Evangelical Christians,” RedState, July 29, 2015.
8. David French, “‘Cuckservative’ Has Got to Go,” National Review, September 18, 2015.
9. Matt K. Lewis, “What’s Behind the ‘Cuckservative’ Slur? (NSFW),” Daily Caller, July 23, 2015, dailycaller.com/2015/07/23/whats-behind-the-cuckservative-slur-nsfw/#ixzz4W9A2rNHh.
10. Milo Yiannopoulos, “‘Cuckservative’ Is a Gloriously Effective Insult That Should Not Be Slurred, Demonised, or Ridiculed,” Breitbart.com, July 28, 2015, www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/28/cuckservative-is-a-gloriously-effective-insult-that-should-not-be-slurred-demonised-or-ridiculed.
11. David Weigel, “‘Cuckservative’—the Conservative Insult of the Month, Explained,” Washington Post, July 29, 2015.
12. Michael Knowles, “An Actual Conservative’s Guide to the Alt-Right.”
13. Betsy Woodruff, “Rush Limbaugh’s Favorite New White-Power Group: The Talk Radio Host May Not Know What the ‘Alternative Right’ Is—but He Gave It a Huge Endorsement Last Week,” Daily Beast, December 3, 2015, www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/03/rush-limbaugh-s-favorite-new-white-power-group.html.
14. “‘Nationalism Trumps Conservatism,’” Says Limbaugh: Rush Explains How Movement Is Remaking the American Right,” World Net Daily, January 20, 2016, www.wnd.com/2016/01/nationalism-trumps-conservatism-says-limbaugh.
15. “Conservative Pundits Use White Nationalist Sam Francis to Explain Trump’s Popularity,” Southern Poverty Law Center, January 29, 2016, www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/01/29/conservative-pundits-use-white-nationalist-sam-francis-explain-trumps-popularity.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Robert Farley, “Trump Retweets Bogus Crime Graphic,” FactCheck.org, November 24, 2015, www.factcheck.org/2015/11/trump-retweets-bogus-crime-graphic. See also Margaret Hartmann, “Donald Trump Makes Racist Point with Wildly Incorrect Tweet,” New York Magazine, November 22, 2015, nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/11/trump-makes-racist-point-with-incorrect-tweet.html#; Philip Bump, “Donald Trump Retweeted a Very Wrong Set of Numbers on Race and Murder,” Washington Post, November 22, 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/22/trump-retweeted-a-very-wrong-set-of-numbers-on-race-and-murder/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.79fb6c7346bc.
19. Tal Kopan, “Donald Trump Retweets ‘White Genocide’ Twitter User,” CNN, January 22, 2016, www.cnn.com/2016/01/22/politics/donald-trump-retweet-white-genocide.
20. Eric Hananoki, “Donald Trump’s Campaign Gave Press Credentials to a White Nationalist Radio Program,” Media Matters for America, March 1, 2016.
21. Tommy Christopher, “Donald Trump Jr. Explains That White Supremacist Radio Interview Was an Accident,” Mediaite, March 3, 2016.
22. Abby Ohlheiser and Caitlin Dewey, “Hillary Clinton’s Alt-Right Speech, Annotated,” Washington Post, August 25, 2016, www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/25/hillary-clintons-alt-right-speech-annotated/?utm_term=.e3413bdf2ca3.
23. Mytheos Holt, “The Intellectual Case for Trump I: Why the White Nationalist Support?,” Federalist, March 30, 2016, thefederalist.com/2016/03/30/the-intellectual-case-for-trump-i-why-the-white-nationalist-support.
24. Ibid.
25. Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannopoulos, “An Establishment Conservative’s Guide to the Alt-Right,” Breitbart.com, March 29, 2016, www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-conservatives-guide-to-the-alt-right.
26. Ibid.
27. Ben Shapiro, “Leftist Web Site Releases ‘Punch a Nazi’ Game: Punch Spencer, Yiannopoulos, Hitler,” Daily Wire, February 3, 2017.
28. Daniel J. Solomon, “Milo Yiannopoulos Slams ‘Thick as Pig-S**t Media Jews,’” Forward, January 3, 2017.
29. Charlie Warzel, “Twitter Permanently Suspends Conservative Writer Milo Yiannopoulos,” BuzzFeed, July 20, 2016, www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/twitter-just-permanently-suspended-conservative-writer-milo?utm_term=.tfZLVla9z#.wnVvw7jyZ.
30. Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannopoulos, “An Establishment Conservative’s Guide to the Alt-Right.”
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Bethany Mandel, “My Trump Tweets Earned Me So Many Anti-Semitic Haters That I Bought a Gun,” Forward, March 21, 2016, forward.com/opinion/336159/my-trump-tweets-earned-me-so-many-anti-semitic-haters-that-i-bought-a-gun.
34. ADL Task Force Issues Report Detailing Widespread Anti-Semitic Harassment of Journalists on Twitter During 2016 Campaign, October 19, 2016, www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/anti-semitism-usa/task-force-report-anti-semitic-harassment-journalists-twitter-2016-campaign.html?referrer www.google.com/#.WGUay_krKUk.
35. Ibid.
36. “The Daily Stormer,” Wikipedia, accessed April 24, 2017, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer.
37. Andrew Anglin, “A Normie’s Guide to the Alt-Right,” Daily Stormer, August 31, 2016, www.dailystormer.com/a-normies-guide-to-the-alt-right/.
38. Melania Trump, Facebook post, April 27, 2016, www.facebook.com/MelaniaTrump/posts/10154069359512808.
39. Ibid.
40. Lauren Gambino, “Melania Trump Hit with Barrage of Antisemitic Abuse,” Guardian, April 28, 2016.
41. Eric Hananoki, “Here’s What Happens When Trump Refuses to Denounce His Racist Neo-Nazi Supporters: Neo-Nazi Website: Trump’s Refusal to Denounce Anti-Semitic Threats Amounts to ‘Hail Victory, Comrades!’” Media Matters for America, May 6, 2016, mediamatters.org/blog/2016/05/06/heres-what-happens-when-trump-refuses-denounce-his-racist-neo-nazi-supporters/210275.
42. Andrew Anglin, “Glorious Leader Donald Trump Refuses to Denounce Stormer Troll Army,” Daily Stormer, May 6, 2016, www.dailystormer.com/glorious-leader-donald-trump-refuses-to-denounce-stormer-troll-army.
43. Isaac Chotiner, “Melania Trump Says Reporter Who Was Target of Anti-Semitic Attacks ‘Provoked Them,’” Slate.com, May 17, 2016, www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/05/17/melania_trump_blames_julia_ioffe_for_attacks_against_julia_ioffe.html.
44. David Weigel, “Four Lessons from the Alt-Right’s D.C. Coming-out Party,” Washington Post, September 10, 2016.
45. Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address to the
Nation, January 11, 1989.
46. Hugh Hewitt, “Jonah Goldberg and I on the ‘#AltRight,’” August 31, 2016, www.hughhewitt.com/jonah-goldberg-altright.
47. Matthew Continetti, “The Coming Conservative Dark Age.”
48. Nicole Hemmer, “CPAC’s Identity Crisis: Inviting Milo Was a Symptom of What Ails Conservatism. And Disinviting Him Is No Cure,” Politico, February 20, 2017.
14. THE BINARY CHOICE
1. “Must Hear!!! Rush Blows the Lights Out in the Final Hour! What This Election Is Really About and What’s Really at Stake,” Rushlimbaugh.com, February 23, 2016, www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/02/23/must_hear_rush_blows_the_lights_out_in_the_final_hour_what_this_election_is_really_about_and_what_s_really_at_stake.
2. Ben Howe, “No This Is NOT the ‘Flight 93 Election,’ Rush,” RedState, September 8, 2016, www.redstate.com/aglanon/2016/09/08/flight-93-election-rush.
3. Tré Goins-Phillips, “Michele Bachmann: This Will Be the ‘Last Election’ if Hillary Clinton Wins the Presidency,” Blaze, September 2, 2016, www.theblaze.com/news/2016/09/02/michele-bachmann-this-will-be-the-last-election-if-hillary-clinton-wins-the-presidency.
4. Brian Tashman, “Trump: ‘This Will Be the Last Election If I Don’t Win,’” Right Wing Watch, September 9, 2016, www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-this-will-be-the-last-election-if-i-dont-win.
5. Dennis Prager, “Trump, Conservatives, and the ‘Principles’ Question,” National Review, September 6, 2016, www.nationalreview.com/article/439712/never-trump-supporters-dont-realize-hillary-clinton-worse-option-donald-trump?utm_source=NR&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=September6prager.
6. Larry O’Connor, “Bennett: #NeverTrump-ers Put Vanity Above Country; ‘Terrible Case of Moral Superiority,’” Hotair.com, August 19, 2016, hotair.com/archives/2016/08/19/bennett-nevertrump-ers-put-vanity-above-country-terrible-case-of-moral-superiority.
7. Victor Davis Hanson, “The Case for Trump,” National Review, October 17, 2016.
8. Publius Decius Mus (Michael Anton), “The Flight 93 Election” Claremont Review of Books, Claremont Institute, September 5, 2016, www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election.
9. Conor Friedersdorf, “An Attack on Founding Principles at the Claremont Institute,” Atlantic, September 9, 2016, www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/an-attack-on-founding-principles-at-the-claremont-institute/499094.
10. Publius Decius Mus (Michael Anton), “The Flight 93 Election.”
11. Greg Weiner, “The Flight of Fancy Election,” Library of Law and Liberty, September 8, 2016, www.libertylawsite.org/2016/09/08/the-flight-of-fancy-election.
12. Ibid.
13. Conor Friedersdorf, “An Attack.”
14. Ben Shapiro, “The Widely-Praised ‘Flight 93 Election’ Essay Is Dishonest and Stupid,” Daily Wire, September 8, 2016, www.dailywire.com/news/8985/widely-praised-flight-93-election-essay-dishonest-ben-shapiro.
15. Abraham Lincoln, “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions: Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838, www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm.
16. Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944), 10 ff.
17. Ibid.
15. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHRISTIANS?
1. Russell Moore, “Can the Religious Right Be Saved?,” The 2016 Erasmus Lecture, First Things, January 2017, www.firstthings.com/article/2017/01/can-the-religious-right-be-saved.
2. Matthew Sheffield, “Religious Right Suddenly Decide Morality’s Not Important in Politics: How in the World Did That Happen?,” Salon.com, October 19, 2016.
3. Julie Zauzmer, “Who’s in the Photo Behind Trump and the Falwells? A Playboy Model Now in Prison,” Washington Post, June 22, 2016.
4. “Embarrassing: Porno Mag Photobombs Jerry Falwell Jr., His Wife and Trump,” Right Scoop, June 21, 2016, therightscoop.com/embarrassing-p0rno-mag-photobombs-jerry-falwell-jr-his-wife-and-trump/.
5. Julie Zauzmer, “Who’s in the Photo.”
6. Erick Erickson, “I Don’t Know Which Jesus Jerry Falwell, Jr. is Worshipping,” Resurgent, January 18, 2016, theresurgent.com/i-dont-know-which-jesus-jerry-falwell-jr-is-worshipping.
7. Eugene Scott, “Trump Believes in God, but Hasn’t Sought Forgiveness,” CNN, July 18, 2015, www.cnn.com/2015/07/18/politics/trump-has-never-sought-forgiveness/.
8. Cal Thomas, “Trump Interview—The Transcript,” Tribune Content Agency, LLC, calthomas.com/node/985.
9. Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “Standing by Donald Trump, Pat Robertson Calls Lewd Video ‘Macho Talk,’” Washington Post, October 10, 2016.
10. Sarah Rodriguez, “Falwell Speaks,” Liberty Champion, March 8, 2016, www.liberty.edu/champion/2016/03/falwell-speaks/.
11. Erick Erickson, “Jerry Falwell, Jr. Has Taken to Mocking God to Support Donald Trump,” Resurgent, March 15, 2016, theresurgent.com/jerry-falwell-jr-has-taken-to-mocking-god-to-support-donald-trump.
12. Bob Eschliman, “After Donald Trump’s Salvation, Dr. James Dobson Reminds How to Deal with ‘Baby Christians,’” Charisma News, June 27, 2016, www.charismanews.com/politics/elections/58066-after-donald-trump-s-salvation-dr-james-dobson-reminds-how-to-deal-with-baby-christians.
13. Katie Glueck, “Trump’s God Whisperer: The Woman Who Led the Candidate to Christ Has Many of the Same Problems Connecting with Evangelicals as He Has,” Politico, July 11, 2016, www.politico.com/story/2016/07/donald-trump-pastor-paula-white-225315.
14. Jonathan Van Maren, “The Uncomfortable Truth About Christian Support for Trump,” Lifesitenews.com, September 28, 2016, www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-christian-support-for-trump.
15. Anna Giaritelli, “Franklin Graham: Trump Won Because ‘God Showed Up,’” Washington Examiner, December 17, 2016, www.washingtonexaminer.com/franklin-graham-trump-won-because-god-showed-up/article/2609931.
16. Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “White Evangelicals Voted Overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, Exit Polls Show,” Washington Post, November 9, 2016.
17. Andy Crouch, “Speak Truth to Trump: Evangelicals, of All People, Should Not Be Silent About Donald Trump’s Blatant Immorality,” Christianity Today, October 10, 2016, www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2016/october-web-only/speak-truth-to-trump.html?start=.
18. Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, Amanda Friesen, and Andrew R. Lewis, “When Evangelical Clergy Oppose Trump, Their Flocks Listen. But They’re Not Speaking Up,” Washington Post, November 4, 2016.
19. Samuel Smith, “Donald Trump: ‘Russell Moore Is Truly a Terrible Representative of Evangelicals,’” Christian Post, May 9, 2016, www.christianpost.com/news/donald-trump-russell-moore-is-truly-a-terrible-representative-of-evangelicals-163596/#oQ3XDPVyZsDzgc31.99.
20. Russell Moore, “Why This Election Makes Me Hate the Word ‘Evangelical,’” Washington Post, February 29, 2016.
21. Russell Moore, “Can the Religious Right Be Saved?”
22. Rod Dreher, “The Religious Right: A Eulogy,” American Conservative, October 24, 2016, www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-religious-right-a-eulogy/.
23. Russell Moore, “Can the Religious Right Be Saved?”
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
IV. RESTORING THE CONSERVATIVE MIND
16. TROLLS AND FLYING MONKEYS: THE RIGHT’S NEW CULTURE OF INTIMIDATION
1. Eliana Johnson, “How Trump Blew Up the Conservative Media.”
2. Bret Stephens, “Don’t Dismiss President Trump’s Attacks on the Media as Mere Stupidity,” Full Text of Remarks at Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture, February 16, 2017, published at time.com/4675860/donald-trump-fake-news-attacks/.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Eliana Johnson, “How Trump Blew Up the Conservative Media.”
7. Jazz Shaw, “Some of Our #Nevertrump Friends Need a Thanksgiving Intervention,” Hotair.com, November 15, 2016, hotair.com/archives/2016/11/15/som
e-of-our-nevertrump-friends-need-a-thanksgiving-intervention.
8. Email from Robert Dohnal to multiple recipients, November 16, 2016, 11:22:11 a.m.
9. Daniel Bice, “Mark Belling Endorses Donald Trump—Reluctantly,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 13, 2016.
10. Mark Belling, “Trump Can Learn from Wisconsin,” Waukesha Freeman, January 4, 2017.
11. Rachel Bade, “Trump Posse Browbeats Hill Republicans: Lawmakers Are Loath to Say Anything Remotely Critical, Fearful They Might Set Off the President-Elect or His Horde of Enforcers,” Politico, December 21, 2016, www.politico.com/story/2016/12/donald-trump-congress-republicans-232800.
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