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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 Bo
oks, 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/.