by David Frum
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.
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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.
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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.
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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/.
Index
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ABC, Trump’s criticism of, 81
Abe, Shinzo, 59, 175–76
abusers outed by ascendancy of Trump, 190, 226
Access Hollywood tapes, 16–18, 23, 42
Ackerman, Bruce, 8
Adelson, Sheldon, 35
Affordable Care Act, 9–11, 10, 78–79, 216
Afghanistan, 91, 183
African American voters, 125–26
“AGAINST TRUMP” issue (National Review), 39–40
Ailes, Roger, 189–90
Alex Jones’s Infowars, 19
alienation of allies
assumption of US untrustworthiness, 31, 149–51
Australia, 150
Bannon, Caldwell, and Trump support for Putin as leader of global conservative movement, 162–64
European Union, 157–59
NATO members, 84–86, 150–52, 155–56
Qatar, 152–54
South Korea, 148–50
Trump’s alignment with Putin, 164–66
and Trump’s strategy to seize more power, 160–62
allies. See alienation of allies
alternative facts put forth by Fox News, 46–47
Amazon, 106, 261n18
American culture
Americans as one people, 211–12
craving and cherishing truth, 223–24
dimming ideals and shifting priorities, 154–55, 161–62
life expectancy decline, 201
as multiethnic society, 216
new spirit of citizen responsibility, 219–20, 230, 233–35
population growth and assimilation of immigrants, 207, 216–17
radical discontent with status quo, 12–13
resentment of differences vs. love for democracy, xi, xii, 7
and Trump’s sexual assault vs. Podesta-Clinton emails, 16–24
Trump stirring up divisiveness, xv–xvi
winning hearts vs. domination, 208–9
See also white supremacy
Anbang Insurance Group of China, 56–57
Anti-Defamation League, 130
anti-nepotism law, 68–69
Anton, Michael, 203–4
Apprentice (NBC program), 61–62, 121
Argentina and Trump-licensed building in Buenos Aires, 58–59
Arpaio, Joe, 48–49
Assad, Bashar al-, 165–66, 173–74
Assange, Julian, 19–24, 47, 138–39
Associated Press, 61, 164–65
Atlantic, 196–97, 202–3
attorney general of the United States, 66, 68, 69, 96
Australia, 150
authoritarianism
and corruption, 52–53
and nepotism, 67–69
unthinking obedience in military, 182
authoritarians
and elections or semblance thereof, 140
and possibilities available from Trump administration, 59–60
Trump as relief from restraint, 154–55
Ayotte, Kelly, 18
baby boom generation, 213–15, 216
Bahrain, 152
and Qatar, 154
Baier, Bret, 44
Baker, Peter, 67
Bannon, Steve, 77, 100, 156, 162–63
BBC barred from White House briefings, 111
Beck, Glenn, 215–16
Becker, Jo, 56–57
Bedminster, cost of Trump’s trips to, 53
Beinart, Peter, 196–97
Benghazi investigations, 96
Bennett, Bill, 210
Bennett, Brian, 152
Beran, Dale, 198–99
betrayals, 72, 73
of Conway, 72–73
DACA reversal, 95
of McMaster, 84–86
of Republicans, 95
of Ryan and Trump (mutual), 93–94
of Spicer, 71–72
See also Trump’s campaign promises; Trump’s lies
Bezos, Jeff, 106
big donors, 36, 40–42, 48
Birther hoax, 6–7, 38, 104, 240n8
Black Lives Matter march in Dallas, 12–13
Blankfein, Lloyd, 129–30
Bloomberg News, 153, 166
Boehner, John, 6–7
boomer generation, 213–15, 216
border with Mexico, 19, 24–25
Borochoff, Daniel, 75
Borstein, Harold, 72
Bozell, Brent, 39
Brecht, Bertolt, 232–33
Breitbart, 120
Britain post–terror attack, 91
Brody, Dave, 128–29
Brzezinski, Mika, 28–29, 111
Bull, Peter, 108
bullies, renewal of disgust toward, 224–27
bullying by Trump, 28–29
Bush, George H. W., 1–2
Bush, George P., 42
Bush, George W.
distrust of flattery and flatterers, 84
on European unity, 155
federal judicial nominations, 8
Republican control of Congress, 92–93
and Trump, xiv
and US–South Korea Free Trade Agreement, 149
Bush, John Ellis “Jeb”
biographical info, 36
criticism of George W. Bush’s spending, 93
presidential campaign of 2016, 12–13, 33–34, 39–40, 217, 246n4
cabinet meeting, praising Trump in, 83–84
Calabresi, Massimo, 115–16
Caldwell, Chris, 163–64
Camerota, Alisyn, 109
&nb
sp; Cantor, Eric, 9
Carlson, Tucker, 46–47
Carrier furnace plant, Indianapolis, 83
Catholics and Catholicism
and Clinton-Podesta emails, 21–24
Pope Francis, 24–26, 71–72
Spicer denied meeting the Pope, 71–72
and Trump’s lewd behavior, 17, 21
Chaffetz, Jason, 18, 96
Champion, Marc, 153
Chao, Elaine, 98
chaos by design
in Trump Organization, 99
Trump sabotage of organization by others, 100
in White House, 99–100, 174, 175–77
Chaput, Archbishop Charles, 24
charitable donations
Sekulow’s nonprofits, 74–75
Trump’s fund-raiser “for the vets,” 46
Trump’s promises of, 41, 63
Charlottesville, Virginia, 13, 16, 80, 81, 142
Chen, Adrian, 114–15
Chen, Hui, 65
China, 60–61, 223
Christian Broadcast Network, 128–29
Christmas morning tweet, Trump’s, 201
civilian-military relations, 179–85
Claremont Review of Books, 203–4
Clinton, Bill, 155–56
Clinton, Hillary R.
author’s vote for, 233–34
criticism of Trump’s sexism, 194–96
damage from Podesta emails, 19–24
Flynn’s claims about, 76–77
fund-raising superior to Trump’s, 40
on Obama as Muslim rumor, 240n11
Republican opposition to, 43