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1. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/us/politics/eric-cantor-loses-gop-primary.html?_r=0
2. http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/dramatic-defeat-cantor-v-brat-numbers-n128761
3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/eric-cantor-faces-tea-party-challenge-tuesday/2014/06/10/17da5d20-f092-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html?utm_term=.fd9abdf5f92c
4. http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/eric-cantor-primary-election-results-virginia-107683
5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/what-went-wrong-for-eric-cantor/2014/06/11/0be7c02c-f180-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_story.html?utm_term=.2ed256b15c23
6. http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-transcript-june-15-2014-n131601
1
1. https://reaganlibrary.archives.gov/archives/reference/8.19.76.html
2. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/transcript/reagan-transcript/
3. http://www.nytimes.com/1980/11/05/politics/05REAG.html?_r=0
4. Dick Wirthlin, The Greatest Communicator: What Ronald Reagan Taught Me About Politics, Leadership, and Life (Hoboken: Wiley, 2004), p. 161.
5. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=38699
6. https://www.craigshirley.com/archive/remembering-ronald-reagan/
7. https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa107.pdf
8. Craig Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America (Wilmington: ISI Books, 2009), p. 181.
9. University of Virginia Miller Center, Richard M. Nixon Presidential Recordings, Nixon Conversation 620-008. Audio and transcript: http://millercenter.org/presidentialrecordings/rmn-620-008
10. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/11/us/clark-clifford-a-major-adviser-to-four-presidents-is-dead-at-91.html
11. Peggy Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (New York: Random House, 2010), p. 167.
12. Lou Cannon, President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (New York: Public Affairs, 2000), p. 67.
13. Lou Cannon, Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power (New York: Public Affairs, 2005), p. 108.
14. Caspar Weinberger, In the Arena: A Memoir of the 20th Century (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2001), p. 155.
15. Ibid., p. 163.
16. Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998), p. 249.
17. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25968
18. Kazin, The Populist Persuasion, p. 252.
19. http://prop1.org/protest/1987/870108wp.buchanan.html
20. Craig Shirley, Reagan’s Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All (Nashville: Nelson Current, 2005), p. xix.
21. Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 333.
22. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2004-06-06/news/0406060322_1_ronald-reagan-president-ronald-president-reagan
23. As quoted in Shirley, Reagan’s Revolution, p. 95.
24. https://reaganlibrary.archives.gov/archives/reference/11.20.75.html
25. https://reaganlibrary.archives.gov/archives/reference/3.31.76.html
26. Wirthlin, The Greatest Communicator, p. 23.
27. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19830727&id=8qYrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6fwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7079,4522705&hl=en
28. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=114982
29. Shirley, Reagan’s Revolution, 197.
30. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-political-conventions-20160718-snap-story.html
31. Shirley, Reagan’s Revolution, p. xxvii.
32. Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution, p. 149.
33. https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0204/1512162.pdf
34. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=32596
35. Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, p. 6.
36. As quoted in Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, p. 6; Douglas Hallett, “John Connally’s Slick Image,” Wall Street Journal, May 17, 1979, p. 26.
37. As quoted in Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, p. 6; James R. Dickenson, “Reagan, Already the Front Runner, Formally Enters GOP Race Tuesday,” Washington Star, November 11, 1979, A4.
38. http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/back.time/9603/06/index.shtml
39. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/06/01/reagan-iowa-loss-allowed-him-to-campaign-his-way/8175e913-1252-4c19-98ad-e6ff64ed1750/?utm_term=.59508f746b5a
40. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25970
41. http://federal-tax-rates.insidegov.com/l/65/1980
42. http://www.heritage.org/taxes/commentary/reagans-tax-cutting-legacy
43. http://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/30/politics/30REAG.html
44. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440127/tax-cuts-king-dollar-and-growth-jfk-reagan-trump-economic-club-new-york
45. http://time.com/4511870/john-f-kennedy-and-ronald-reagan-tax-policy/
46. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420153/what-would-reagan-make-current-gops-tax-debate-edwin-j-feulner-stephen-moore
47. Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore, The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy—If We Let It Happen (New York: Threshold Editions, 2009), p. 3.
48. http://fortune.com/2016/11/10/donald-trump-arthur-laffer-prediction/
49. https://www.ft.com/content/8cb63288-bc85-11e6-8b45-b8b81dd5d080
50. https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2017/04/26/president-trump-proposed-massive-tax-cut-heres-what-you-need-know
51. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/221231/wall-paul-kengor
52. http://www.foxnews.com/story/2004/06/06/quotes-nation-reacts.html
53. Peter Schweizer, Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism (New York: Doubleday, 2002), pp. 11–12.
54. http://www.heritage.org/report/the-crusader-ronald-reagan-and-the-fall-communism
55. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/07/opinion/ronald-reagan.html
56. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=37990
57. Ibid.
58. As quoted in Craig Shirley, Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2015), p. 321.
59. http://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/33-years-and-33-minutes-why-missile-defense-more-necessary-ever
60. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/06/07/AR2005033002003.html
61. http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/110356
62. http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/07/news/economy/obama-15-million-jobs/index.html
63. http://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/25/archives/campaigns-against-washington-termed-racism-by-humphrey.html?_r=0
64. Shirley, Last Act, p. xix.
2
1. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/01/arts/music/long-lost-video-of-rb-stars-at-1989-inaugural-is-to-air.html
2. Richard Viguerie, Takeover: The 100-Year War for the Soul of the GOP and How Conservatives Can Finally Win It (Washington, DC: WND Books, 2014), p. 100.
3. Ed Rollins, Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms: My Life in American Politics (New York: Broadway Books, 1996), p. 196.
4. Tom Wicker, George Herbert Walker Bush (New York: Viking, 2004), p. 106.
5. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25955
6. Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution, p. 308.
7. Dick Darman, Who’s In Control?: Polar Politics and the Sensible Center (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), p. 191.
8. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25955
9. In fact, a 2008 Associated Press obituary for Dick Darman was headlined: “Richard Darman, Who Convinced Bush 41 to Break ‘No New Taxes’ Pledge, Dies at 64.” http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/01/25/richard-darman-who-convinced-bush-41-to-break-no-new-taxes-pledge-dies-at-64.html
10. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/271217/budget-danger-ahead-james-c-capretta
11. Darman, Who’s In Control?, p. 84.
12. Ibid., pp. 293, 361.
13. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/27/us/bush-now-concedes-a-need-for-tax-revenue-increases-to-reduce-deficit-in-budget.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
14. Mary Matalin and James Carville, All’s Fair: Love, War, and Running for President (New York: Random House, 1994), p. 221.
15. http://time.com/2854306/the-curse-of-friendly-fire/
16. Matalin and Carville, All’s Fair, p. 69.
17. Peter Goldman, Thomas M. DeFrank, Mark Miller, et al., Quest for the Presidency: 1992 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994), p. 335.
18. Ibid., pp. 335, 345.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid., p. 325.
21. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/01/pat-buchanan-donald-trump-is-running-as-me
22. http://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/buchanan-culture-war-speech-speech-text/
23. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/patrickbuchanan1992rnc.htm
24. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=21617
25. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/16/us/the-1992-campaign-transcript-of-2d-tv-debate-between-bush-clinton-and-perot.html?pagewanted=all
26. Matalin and Carville, All’s Fair, pp. 129–30.
27. Rollins, Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms, 260.
28. John B. Judis, The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics (New York: Columbia Global Reports, 2016), p. 50.
29. Goldman et al., Quest for the Presidency, pp. 361–62.
30. https://www.c-span.org/video/?25063-1/american-political-system
31. Ibid.
32. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=46216
33. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=47070
34. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1993/11/07/america-first-nafta-never/c8450c08-b14b-4a25-abe8-0b7cfc992e11/?utm_term=.5ce6c5a71129
35. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/16/us/the-1992-campaign-transcript-of-2d-tv-debate-between-bush-clinton-and-perot.html?pagewanted=all
36. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/04/us/1992-campaign-white-house-bush-says-raising-taxes-was-biggest-blunder-his.html?pagewanted=all
37. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-kennedy-bush-idUSBREA4308G20140505
38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKeSAI8uS8g
39. Rollins, Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms, p. 264.
40. http://c-pol.com/syndrome.html
41. Rollins, Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms, p. 240.
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1. https://www.lauraingraham.com/images/pdf/NewYorkTimesArticle.pdf
2. http://articles.latimes.com/1997-04-06/opinion/op-45900_1_clinton-administration
3. Bill Clinton, My Life (New York: Knopf, 2004), p. 330.
4. Ibid., p. 330.
5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/10/05/governors-camp-feels-his-record-on-crime-can-stand-the-heat/184f3659-154d-41f3-9ee2-4d34bf2acfd5/?utm_term=.e13befde0b1b
6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/bill-clinton-in-1992-ad-a-plan-to-end-welfare-as-we-know-it/2016/08/30/9e6350f8-6ee0-11e6-993f-73c693a89820_video.html
7. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/24/us/1992-campaign-democrats-clinton-houston-speech-assails-bush-crime-issue.html
8. https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how-groups-voted/how-groups-voted-1992/
9. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/26/us/hillary-clinton-to-head-panel-on-health-care.html
10. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-hillarycare-idUSKCN0YS0WZ
11. http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2009/09/can_he_top_clinton
12. http://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/guide-the-clinton-health-plan#pgfId-929615
13. http://www.salon.com/2016/10/02/own-up-to-nafta-democrats-trump-is-right-that-the-terrible-trade-pact-was-bill-clintons-baby/
14. Michael Waldman, POTUS Speaks: Finding the Words That Defined the Clinton Presidency (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 57.
15. Clinton, My Life, p. 540.
16. Ibid., p. 557.
17. Bob Woodward, The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 318.
18. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=47070
19. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-07-12/business/1993193135_1_pact-american-free-trade-cbs-news-poll
20. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1993/11/07/america-first-nafta-never/c8450c08-b14b-4a25-abe8-0b7cfc992e11/?utm_term=.48d809048c27
21. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/09/19/in-anti-nafta-push-perot-builds-support-among-clinton-backers/505cdc7d-c3a0-4f3b-8640-719771ecf2f9/?utm_term=.573d773fd102
22. http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/09/mn.09.html
23. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19931025&id=EWczAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IzIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=5696,7925486&hl=en
24. https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-spoke-against-nafta-at-1993-convention?utm_term=.hoO2BRoMr#.buOWy2nEw
25. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/103-1993/h575
26. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=46216
27. https://ideas.repec.org/a/elg/rokejn/v2y2014i4p429-441.html
28. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population
29. https://ideas.repec.org/a/elg/rokejn/v2y2014i4p429-441.html
30. https://newrepublic.com/article/134983/newt-gingrich-laid-groundwork-donald-trump-rise
31. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/24/newt-gingrich-2012-the-overture-to-donald-trump-2016/
32. Lou Cannon, Ronald Reagan: The Presidential Portfolio: History as Told Through the Collection of the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum (New York: Public Affairs, 2001), p. 379.
33. Ibid., p. 379.
34. http://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/the-contract-america-implementing-new-ideas-the-us
35. Ibid.
36. George Stephanopoulos, All Too Human: A Political Education (New York: Little, Brown, 1999), p. 322.
37. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/welfare/stories/wf080196.htm
38. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/09/us/new-senate-push-on-welfare-revives-tensions-in-both-parties.html
39. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439075/welfare-reform-successful-statistics-show
40. Clinton, My Life, p. 922.
41. https://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/052500clinton-trade-text.html
42. https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/WCPD-2000-03-13/html/WCPD-2000-03-13-Pg487-2.htm
43. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=58305
44. http://articles.latimes.com/2000/mar/29/news/mn-13769
45. https://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/052500clinton-trade-text.html
46. https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/trade-china-business-profits-or-human-rights
47. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2000-05-10/news/0005100024_1_china-trade-bill-white-house-clinton
48. https://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/052500clinton-trade-text.html
49. David H. Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon H. Hanson, “The China Shock: Learning from Labor-Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade,” Annual Review of Economics 8 (2016): pp. 205–40. Available online at: http://www.ddorn.net/papers/Autor-Dorn-Hanson-ChinaShock.pdf
50. http://www.epi.org/press/growing-trade-deficit-with-china-has-cost-3-2-million-u-s-jobs-since-2001/
51. http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_next_20/2016/09/when_china_joined_the_wto_it_kick_started_the_chinese_economy_and_roused.html
52. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population
53. http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/flashback-bill-clintons-false-promise-trade-china/
54. http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/elites-blew-world/
55. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2016-02-15/age-secular-stagnation
4
1. http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/a-kerry-landslide/Content?oid=1192172
2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22188-2005Jan19.html?nav=rss_politics/elections/2004
3. http://www.foxnews.com/story/2004/11/03/egg-on-face-exit-pollsters.html
4. Ibid.
5. https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB122460651917154585?mod=googlewsj
6. https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040818-13.html
7. http://edition.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/06/07/bush.taxes/
8. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=45820
9. https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/08/print/20010809-2.html
10. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics-july-dec00-for-policy_10-12/
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29419
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/21st_century/gbush2.asp
17. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/06/bush.speech.transcript/
18. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/21st_century/gbush2.asp
19. http://www.un.org/webcast/ga/57/statements/020912usaE.htm
20. http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/17/sprj.irq.bush.transcript/
21. George W. Bush, Decision Points (New York: Crown, 2010), p. 205.
22. http://www.gallup.com/poll/102655/opinions-iraq-war-show-little-movement.aspx
23. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/27/donald-trump/did-us-spend-6-trillion-middle-east-wars/ and https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/pages/report_oif_all.xhtml
24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjmh2k5W-6Q
25. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2003/03/25/hollywood-partyers-soldiering-on/06327347-83d3-44c4-ab7b-dcd6fbda5437/?utm_term=.8e652bbe6dc7
26. http://www.factcheck.org/2016/02/donald-trump-and-the-iraq-war/
27. http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a37230/donald-trump-esquire-cover-story-august-2004/
28. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/04/us/2000-campaign-transcript-debate-between-vice-president-gore-governor-bush.html
29. http://www.lauraingraham.com/agnosticchart?charttype=minichart&chartID=21&formatID=1&useMiniChartID=true&position=68&destinationpage=/pg/jsp/general/eblasttext.jsp
30. https://web.archive.org/web/20061227235207/http://reid.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=246777&&year=2005&
31. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9623345/#.WN1lVGNtEks
32. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/06/AR2005100601468.html
33. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/miers/EWDSpeech.pdf
34. Bush, Decision Points, p. 101.
35. Ibid.
36. http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/mexicoflag.asp
37. George W. Bush, Decision Points, p. 305.
38. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/15/washington/15text-bush.html
39. https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_citizenship.jsp
40. https://www.dps.texas.gov/administration/crime_records/pages/txCriminalAlienStatistics.htm
41. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=82455
42. Bush, Decision Points, p. 304.
43. http://www.gallup.com/poll/24616/iraq-war-positioned-potent-election-issue.aspx
44. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-the-democrats-won/
45. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=24269
46. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15750949/ns/politics-national_journal/t/seven-lessons-midterm-elections/#.WSufHGVtFDc
47. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=24269
48. http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/immigration/295776-who-really-benefits-from-immigration-reform
49. http://www.heritage.org/immigration/report/the-fiscal-cost-unlawful-immigrants-and-amnesty-the-us-taxpayer
50. Bush, Decision Points, p. 302.
51. Dinesh D’Souza, Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader (New York: Touchstone, 1997), p. 93.
52. Bush, Decision Points, p. 305.
53. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/business/economy/24text-bush.html?mcubz=0
54. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/13/in-2008-donald-trump-said-george-w-bush-shouldve-been-impeached/?utm_term=.e43f5dad5fff
5
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/us/politics/08romney-transcript.html
2. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=96066
3. http://www.newsweek.com/why-right-hates-mccain-93575
4. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04ayers.html
5. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/11/mccain-to-crowd-dont-be-scared-of-obama-presidency/
6. David Axelrod, The Believer: My Forty Years in Politics (New York: Penguin, 2016), p. 315.
7. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/DemocraticDebate/story?id=4443788&page=1
8. Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, Double Down: Game Change 2012 (New York: Penguin, 2014), p. 305.
9. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/07/26/sarah_palin_i_was_not_allowed_to_tell_the_truth_about_obama_in_2008.html
10. David Plouffe, The Audacity to Win: How Obama Won and How We Can Beat the Party of Limbaugh, Beck and Palin (New York: Penguin, 2010), pp. 354–55.
11. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-agrees-to-obama-bailout-request/
12. https://newrepublic.com/article/61721/conservatism-dead
13. http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/15/a-tax-day-tea-party-cheat-sheet-how-it-all-started/
14. http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/45122-ARRA.pdf
15. https://thinkprogress.org/pelosi-tea-parties-are-part-of-an-astroturf-campaign-by-some-of-the-wealthiest-people-in-america-ad5d6c86cd95
16. http://nymag.com/news/features/67285/
17. http://www.pearceyreport.com/blog/2009/12/code_red_rally_dec_15_us_capit.php
18. http://www.politico.com/story/2009/07/town-halls-gone-wild-025646
19. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/12/30/auto-bailout-tarp-gm-chrysler/21061251/
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21. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/opinion/the-tea-partys-war-on-america.html?_r=0&mtrref=undefined&gwh=99325652428C112B81B43D0791C5DEB7&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion
22. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/35990654/ns/msnbc-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/t/olbermann-gop-self-destruction-imminent/#.WO5lNGNtEks
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24. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/colbert-king-the-tea-party-resurrects-the-spirit-of-the-old-confederacy/2013/10/04/95b37f6e-2c7b-11e3-97a3-ff2758228523_story.html?utm_term=.bfc5c72ccdef
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27. http://www.salon.com/2010/05/03/tea_party_populism_history/
28. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/opinion/08blow.html
29. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/12/AR2010091201425.html
30. Halperin and Heilemann, Double Down, p. 14.
31. http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/04/obama-on-small-town-pa-clinging-to-religion-guns-xenophobia-007737
32. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/populist-convert-santorum-takes-on-mitts-elites/article/1042716
33. http://hotair.com/archives/2012/01/04/gingrich-why-yes-id-team-up-with-santorum-to-take-down-romney/
34. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/202755-santorum-not-planning-a-team-up-with-gingrich-anytime-soon
35. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/11/romney-campaign-acknowledges-high-tech-election-day-monitoring-system-had-its-challenges/
36. http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-project-orca-disaster-2012-11
37. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/11/08/orca-how-the-romney-campaign-suppressed-its-own-vote/
38. http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/11/romneys-fail-whale-orca-the-vote-tracker-left-team-flying-blind-updated-149098
39. http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-project-orca-disaster-2012-11
40. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/11/08/orca-how-the-romney-campaign-suppressed-its-own-vote/
41. http://www.cnbc.com/id/48737475?view=story&$DEVICE$=native-android-mobile
42. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/richard-mourdock-rape-comment-puts-romney-defense/story?id=17552263
43. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/richard-mourdock-mitt-romney-and-the-gop-defense-of-coerced-mating/264035/
44. https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/11/women-are-not-a-unified-voting-bloc/265007/
45. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/us/politics/etch-a-sketch-remark-a-rare-misstep-for-romney-adviser.html
46. http://www.politico.com/story/2012/09/inside-the-campaign-how-mitt-stumbled-081280?o=4
47. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443524904577649932701725706
48. Halperin and Heilemann, Double Down, p. 311.
49. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/scott-prouty-47-percent-video
50. http://www.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/News/en-us/gibson-0825-2011.aspx
51. http://humanevents.com/2014/05/30/the-true-villains-behind-the-gibson-guitar-raid-are-revealed/
52. http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/18/politics/irs-scandal-fast-facts/
53. http://www.mediaite.com/online/ann-coulter-laments-to-ingraham-if-romney-cant-win-in-this-economy-its-over-there-is-no-hope/
54. http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/
55. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eu-referendum-bill-gates-says-brexit-would-make-britain-significantly-less-attractive-a7086906.html
56. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bill-gates-pulled-off-the-swift-common-core-revolution/2014/06/07/a830e32e-ec34-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html?utm_term=.5a3880943bf4
57. http://www.ajc.com/news/opinion/common-core-caught-elite-populist-crossfire/jDnpJXTi5bss5DNbHuRdPI/
58. http://www.freedomworks.org/content/battle-against-common-core-standards
59. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tea-party-groups-rallying-against-common-core-education-overhaul/2013/05/30/64faab62-c917-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html?utm_term=.7d6524937c91
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61. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/common-core-educational-standards-are-losing-support-nationwide-poll-shows/2014/08/19/67b1f20c-27cb-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html?utm_term=.10647c66bed5
62. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/11/16/arne-duncan-white-surburban-moms-upset-that-common-core-shows-their-kids-arent-brilliant/?utm_term=.359090c6f922
63. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tea-party-groups-rallying-against-common-core-education-overhaul/2013/05/30/64faab62-c917-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html?utm_term=.90cf12827f6a
64. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/11/08/common-core-implementation-called-worse-than-healthcare-gov-launch/?utm_term=.464f69854244
65. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/common-core-educational-standards-are-losing-support-nationwide-poll-shows/2014/08/19/67b1f20c-27cb-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html?utm_term=.10647c66bed5
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67. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/351649/tea-party-vs-immigration-reform-betsy-woodruff
68. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2013/06/12/rubio-apologizes-for-telling-different-things-to-spanish-english-audiences/
69. http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2013/06/28/senates-immigration-reform-bill-passes.html
70. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/351649/tea-party-vs-immigration-reform-betsy-woodruff
71. http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2013/06/25/laura-ingraham-how-moderate-republicans-are-killing-party.html
72. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/24/john-boehner-immigration_n_5207854.html
73. http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-cantor-aei-speech-full-text-2013-2
74. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2013/07/08/rove-bush-gop-special-interest-allies-make-new-push-on-house-republicans-to-cave-into-senate-immigration-bill/ and https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientbills.php?id=D000067575&year=2013
75. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/politics/gop-groups-offering-cover-for-lawmakers-on-immigration.html
76. http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/eric-cantor-primary-election-results-virginia-107683
77. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/07/28/laura_ingraham_tea_party_giant_killer_eyes_her_next_scalp_123477.html
78. https://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/eric-cantor-cashes-in-goes-to-wall-street/
79. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/11/laura-ingraham-blasts-republican-leadership-over-cr-omnibus-budget-bill/
80. http://www.breitbart.com/video/2014/09/05/farage-on-ukips-success-voters-dont-want-perfect-politicians/
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2. https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/571307568938815490
3. https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/571301870544805888
4. https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/571302582242553856
5. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/gop-talk-show-primary-116479
6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/02/18/jeb-bush-considers-himself-lucky-to-have-family-that-shaped-americas-foreign-policy-from-the-oval-office/?utm_term=.a7c029bb1684
7. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jeb-bush-puts-more-space-between-himself-and-george-w-bush/2015/05/21/b8f29cf4-ffd7-11e4-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html?utm_term=.8af69b4b6cb2
8. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/242801-bush-critical-of-spending-during-brothers-administration
9. https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/run-2016/2015/07/02/the-biggest-republican-primary-in-100-years
10. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/06/09/donald_trump_a_master_of_macro-aggression_130821.html
11. https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/06/16/donald-trump-transcript-our-country-needs-a-truly-great-leader/
12. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/16/us/elections/donald-trump.html?mcubz=0
13. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/us/politics/donald-trump-runs-for-president-this-time-for-real-he-says.html
14. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2015/06/16/donald-trump-announcement-president/28782433/
15. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-unfavorables-spike-clintons-challenged-poll/story?id=39856303
16. http://www.businessinsider.com/newspapers-donald-trump-president-2015-6
17. http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2015/images/06/30/trumpbushclinton.pdf
18. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2015/06/16/donald-trump-announcement-president/28782433/
19. http://www.businessinsider.com/sen-lindsey-graham-trump-is-a-wrecking-ball-for-the-future-of-the-republican-party-2015-7
20. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/247588-gop-strategists-to-jeb-treat-trump-with-kid-gloves
21. http://www.lauraingraham.com/b/Expert:-TPA-Guarantees-Passage-Of-Secret,-Scandalous,-Sovereignty-Crushing-Trade-In-Services-Agreement/-334084243804048283.html?dest=/mobile/blogdetail.jsp
22. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-john-mccain-war-hero-captured/
23. Ibid.
24. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/donald-trump-2016-is-over/
25. http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/07/19/donald-trumps-clown-fox-news-sunday-panel-reacts-trump-mccain-fallout
26. http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/the-apprentices/
27. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/us/politics/conservative-airwaves-grapple-with-donald-trump-aiding-his-rise.html
28. https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/hillary-hits-jeb-ducks/
29. http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/07/media/gop-debate-fox-news-ratings/
30. http://www.redstate.com/erick/2015/08/07/i-have-disinvited-donald-trump-to-the-redstate-gathering/
31. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/magazine/how-donald-trump-set-off-a-civil-war-within-the-right-wing-media.html?mcubz=0
32. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/magazine/how-donald-trump-set-off-a-civil-war-within-the-right-wing-media.html?_r=0
33. http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/21/politics/donald-trump-rally-mobile-alabama/
34. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/nate-silver-donald-trump-wont-win-2015-9
35. http://washingtonmonthly.com/2015/06/19/the-abrasively-boring-kasich-making-his-move/
36. https://twitter.com/anncoulter/status/721403321643192320
37. http://www.lauraingraham.com/b/Kasich:-Illegals-are-Law-Abiding,-Provide-Valuable-Services/466378084479528984.html
38. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/eric-cantor-endorse-jeb-bush-virginia-co-chair-campaign-2016-121815
39. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/20/why-trump-will-never-make-the-ballot.html
40. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/07/the-flat-earth-set-helped-donald-trump-hijack-the-gop-and-crash-it-into-the-ground.html and http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/17/the-republican-myth-of-the-untapped-white-voter.html and http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/08/it-s-too-late-to-stop-the-gop-apocalypse.html and http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/29/a-vote-for-donald-trump-is-a-vote-for-bigotry.html and http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/17/hey-republicans-this-is-how-you-beat-trump-for-real.html
41. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/267286284182118400?lang=en
42. https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/cato-annual-report-2015-update-ii.pdf
43. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/24/fox-news-poll-outsiders-rule-2016-gop-field-support-for-biden-nearly-doubles.html
44. http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/poll-72-gop-voters-dissatisfied-boehner-mcconnell-n433731
45. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/255080-jeb-were-going-to-miss-boehner
46. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2015/10/13/fox-news-poll-carson-giving-trump-run-for-his-money.html
47. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-10-19/trump-candidacy-will-fade-as-other-republicans-rise
48. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/10/28/the-third-republican-debate-annotating-the-transcript/?utm_term=.f444977280cd
49. https://www.wsj.com/articles/populism-on-the-rise-in-gop-race-for-president-1447262303
50. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/259374-schumer-rubio-all-over-senate-immigration-reform-bill
51. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/11/22/fox-news-poll-trump-gains-carson-slips-cruz-and-rubio-climb-in-gop-race.html
52. https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/lara-brown/2015/12/11/donald-trump-wont-win-as-a-republican-or-an-independent
53. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/ted-cruz-donald-trump-216724
54. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/14/as-cruz-rises-in-us-presidential-polls-trump-calls-him-maniac.html
55. http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/12/16/jeb-trump-is-a-bully-hes-not-quite-all-in-command/
56. https://twitter.com/GovernorPataki/status/656171623423332352
57. http://www.app.com/story/news/politics/new-jersey/chris-christie/2016/01/04/christie-kneecaps-trump-new-hampshire-speech/78256098/
58. https://www.wsj.com/articles/my-crystal-ball-scoreplus-2016-predictions-1452124623
59. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-nomination-would-rip-the-heart-out-of-the-republican-party/2016/01/07/c9cb3f08-b49b-11e5-a842-0feb51d1d124_story.html?utm_term=.f4ace36908b5
60. http://www.vox.com/2016/1/5/10717690/donald-trump-loss
61. http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/national-reviews-unwise-pig-pile-on-donald-trump/
62. http://www.lauraingraham.com/b/Huckabee,-Buchanan,-Schlafly-Pummel-NR/254329413551385022.html
63. http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/national-reviews-unwise-pig-pile-on-donald-trump/
64. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/donald-trump-explains-iowa-loss
65. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/06/transcript-of-the-feb-6-gop-debate-annotated/?utm_term=.667fb7f43aa0
66. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/south-carolina-gop-primary-firewall-lee-atwater-213648
67. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSMTZSAPEC2FLJFZSL
68. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2016/02/18/fox-news-poll-national-presidential-race-february-18-2016.html
69. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/us/politics/jeb-bush-campaign.html
70. http://theresurgent.com/the-importance-of-disclosing-this-immediately/
71. http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/01/se.06.html
72. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/us/politics/mitt-romney-speech.html
73. Ibid.
74. https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/705369650935296001
75. https://twitter.com/ingrahamangle/status/705442800981164032
76. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbsnyt-poll-who-do-gop-voters-blame-for-violence-at-donald-trump-rallies/
77. https://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/how-trump-loses-revisited/?_r=1
78. http://theresurgent.com/statement-from-conservatives-against-trump/
79. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/us/politics/anti-donald-trump-republicans-call-for-a-third-party-option.html?_r=0
80. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-made-a-mistake-by-overlooking-colorado/
81. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/us/politics/donald-trump-losing-ground-tries-to-blame-the-system.html?_r=0
82. http://www.denverpost.com/2016/04/10/angry-donald-trump-blasts-colorado-gop-results-as-totally-unfair/
83. http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/20/politics/donald-trump-ted-cruz-1237-delegates/
84. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-cruz-nobody-is-getting-1237-delegates/
85. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ted-cruz-john-kasich-alliance-trump/story?id=38652514
86. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/us/politics/ted-cruz-john-kasich-donald-trump.html
87. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/724567219062059008
88. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/03/carly-fiorina-and-the-shortest-vice-presidential-candidacy-in-modern-history/?utm_term=.f0c354f75432
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2. https://twitter.com/ingrahamangle/status/507681667147112450
3. http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/683183/proud-making-June-23rd-INDEPENDENCE-DAY-Nigel-Farage-Brexit
4. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-recession-economy-what-happens-nigel-farage-speech-a7099301.html
5. https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/746309494267875328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2016%2F06%2F24%2Fhere-are-the-most-absurd-liberal-reactions-to-brexit%2F
6. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-us-politicians-react-to-brexit-vote/
7. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/24/in-scotland-trump-celebrates-brexit-vote/?utm_term=.ba6251efb025
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10. http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/establishment-gets-their-comeuppance/
11. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/hardly-anybody-wants-to-speak-at-trumps-convention-224815
12. http://washingtonmonthly.com/2016/06/27/no-one-wants-to-speak-at-the-gop-convention/
13. https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system
14. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/data-points/hillary-clinton-s-lead-over-trump-shrinks-after-controversial-week-n607351
15. https://poll.qu.edu/pennsylvania/release-detail?ReleaseID=2365
16. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/nov/15/20061115-122626-4892r/
17. http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2016/third-night-of-2016-republican-national-convention-draws.html
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19. http://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech/
20. Donald J. Trump, Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2011), p. 147.
21. http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/288611-transcript-ted-cruz-addresses-republican-convention
22. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-text-donald-trumps-2016-republican-national-convention/story?id=40786529
23. http://www.dailywire.com/news/7714/top-left-wing-reactions-trumps-speech-robert-kraychik
24. http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/samantha-cohen/2016/07/22/msnbcs-willie-geist-donald-trump-painted-picture-dystopian-mad
25. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/trumps-appetite-for-destruction-how-disastrous-convention-doomed-gop-w430546
26. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/438612/donald-trumps-republican-convention-was-failure
27. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/opinion/campaign-stops/the-dark-knight.html
28. http://www.salon.com/2016/07/22/his_dark_materials_after_that_diabolical_masterful_performance_donald_trump_could_easily_end_up_president/
29. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-pence-reagan-library-20160908-snap-story.html
30. http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/five-questions-about-the-clintons-and-a-uranium-company
31. http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/apr/26/peter-schweizer/fact-checking-clinton-cash-author-claim-about-bill/
32. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/09/us/politics/hillary-clinton-faces-test-of-record-aiding-women.html?_r=0
33. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=1
34. http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/82df550e1ec646098b434f7d5771f625/many-donors-clinton-foundation-met-her-state
35. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/05/28/trump-campaign-clinton-cash-formula-give-money-bill-get-favors-hill/
36. https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-presidential-campaign-fundraising/
37. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/13/hillary-clinton/what-hillary-clinton-really-said-about-tpp-and-gol/
38. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/politics/hillary-clinton-speeches-wikileaks.html?_r=0
39. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/24/here-are-the-latest-most-damaging-things-in-the-dncs-leaked-emails/?utm_term=.ef3ea2081dd7
40. http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/politics/hillary-clinton-speech-prepared-remarks-transcript/
41. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-text-khizr-khans-speech-2016-democratic-national/story?id=41043609
42. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-father-fallen-soldier-ive-made-lot/story?id=41015051
43. https://twitter.com/JonahNRO/status/758836064278548481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftalkingpointsmemo.com%2Flivewire%2Fconservatives-agree-dnc-was-disaster-for-gop
44. https://mediamatters.org/video/2016/07/29/cnn-highlights-conservatives-praising-hillary-clintons-acceptance-speeech-democratic-national/212019
45. http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/poll-clinton-opens-double-digit-lead-over-trump-n625676 and http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2016/08/03/fox-news-poll-aug-3-2016.html
46. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/business/balance-fairness-and-a-proudly-provocative-presidential-candidate.html?_r=0
47. http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/obamas-new-gop-henchmen/s
8
1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/steve-bannon-and-the-making-of-an-economic-nationalist-1489516113
2. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/us/politics/donald-trump-stephen-bannon-paul-manafort.html
3. Ibid.
4. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/us/politics/donald-trump-black-voters.html
5. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-minority-outreach-campaign-20160902-story.html
6. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-detroit-african-american-church-227712
7. http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-transcript-clinton-s-full-remarks-as-1473549076-htmlstory.html
8. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/statements/2016/09/10/statement-from-hillary-clinton/
9. http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-sept-11-2016-n646441
10. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/26/voters-strongly-reject-hillary-clintons-basket-of-deplorables-approach/?utm_term=.85af7b5d58e3
11. https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/11/21/understanding-undecided-voters/9EjNHVkt99b4re2VAB8ziI/story.html
12. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/hillary-clinton-blood-clot-life-threatening-medical-experts/story?id=18101213 and https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/hillary-clintons-blood-clot-most-likely-in-a-leg-experts-say/2012/12/31/d2c853ea-5376-11e2-bf3e-76c0a789346f_story.html?utm_term=.87ba794f365f
13. http://thehill.com/media/295605-cnn-host-says-sexism-a-factor-in-clinton-health-coverage
14. https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/775138314525433856
15. http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/hillarys-allergy-to-transparency/
16. http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2016/first-presidential-debate-of-2016-draws-84-million-viewers.html
17. Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign (New York: Crown, 2017), p. 325.
18. http://www.politico.com/story/2011/04/birtherism-where-it-all-began-053563
19. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/27/why-the-donald-trump-who-appeared-on-stage-monday-cant-win.html
20. http://www.therepublic.com/2017/01/10/photo-gallery-mike-pences-high-school-years-at-columbus-north/
21. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/mark-kirk-donald-trump-comments-women-229328
22. https://twitter.com/bensasse/status/784726683920297984?lang=en
23. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/07/the-gops-brutal-responses-to-the-new-trump-video-broken-down/?utm_term=.9ebaad197638
24. http://www.bakersfield.com/special/business-conference/laura-ingraham-obama-and-clinton-an-epic-fail/article_ae8f0d4c-8db6-11e6-b6c8-076d66560ce3.html
25. http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2016/second-presidential-debate-of-2016-draws-66-5-million-viewers.html
26. https://www.vox.com/2016/10/9/13222302/donald-trump-jail-hillary-clinton-second-debate
27. https://thinkprogress.org/after-trump-talks-about-jailing-clinton-media-draw-comparisons-to-dictators-4a770c4adc83
28. https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/10/09/cnns-van-jones-trump-threatened-jail-hillary-clinton-thats-new-low-american-democracy/213682
29. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/world/americas/united-states-democracy-clinton-trump.html
30. http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/10/politics/clinton-trump-new-national-poll/
31. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
32. http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-the-trump-vs-mcmullin-battle-for-utah-1477800901-htmlstory.html
33. http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2016/third-presidential-debate-of-2016-draws-71-6-million-viewers.html
34. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGomGRZIDIE&feature=youtu.be&t=15s
35. http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2016-president/
36. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/07/donald-trump-will-lose-after-failing-to-learn-from-mitt-romney.html
37. http://election.princeton.edu/2016/11/06/is-99-a-reasonable-probability/
38. http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/11/05/poll-expert-i-will-eat-a-bug-if-trump-exceeds-240.cnn
39. http://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2016/11/09/full-stop-frank-luntz-reversed-sure-thing-prediction-as-it-became-clear-trump-was-defeating-hillary/
40. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/10/oreilly_on_trump_the_people_revolted_and_they_won.html
41. https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/796222735252918273
42. Allen and Parnes, Shattered, p. 379.
9
1. https://www.whitehouse.gov/inaugural-address
2. http://thehill.com/homenews/media/315324-msnbcs-chris-matthews-trump-inauguration-speech-hitlerian
3. https://twitter.com/billkristol/status/822496003391705089?lang=en
4. https://twitter.com/billkristol/status/822491947998838785?lang=pt
5. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/06/trump-announces-japanese-telecom-co-will-invest-50-billion-create-50000-jobs-u-s/
6. https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/06/president-trump-congratulates-exxon-mobil-job-creating-investment
7. http://www.ajc.com/business/delta-hire-000-workers-ceo-meets-with-trump/YEONpBVDCVTgm5eP3qQp9L/
8. http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2017/07/26/scott-walker-heads-d-c-trump-prepares-wisconsin-foxconn-announcement/512077001/
9. https://www.ft.com/content/aef9fdab-6568-3385-8218-a6df04cdc3f7
10. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-idUSKBN1AA267 and https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/01/apple-tech-stocks-soar-after-hours-set-to-lead-dow-to-22000-record-wednesday.html
11. http://thehill.com/regulation/329720-study-trump-has-eliminated-86b-in-regs
12. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/us/politics/fact-check-trump-claims-low-unemployment-booming-economy.html
13. https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/834859197451821056?lang=en
14. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-rural-voters-trump-231266
15. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/us/politics/tpp-trump-trade-nafta.html
16. http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/china-us-beef-imports-trade-deal/
17. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/business/china-railway-one-belt-one-road-1-trillion-plan.html
18. http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-china-deal-one-belt-one-road-2017-5
19. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/japan-backs-trump-further-action-north-korea-pressure-china-n788021
20. https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-plans-trade-measures-against-china-1501635127
21. http://www.lifezette.com/referral/ingraham-top-gop-lawmakers-laughing-idea-wall-get-built/
22. http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/omnibus-spending-bill-budget-trump-agenda#sthash.AeGtcwPQ.dpuf
23. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/02/11/trumps-dubious-claim-that-his-border-wall-would-cost-8-billion/?utm_term=.3a95532a43da
24. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/27/ten-questionable-federal-govt-expenditures-greater-than-trumps-border-wall/
25. http://www.fairus.org/news/illegal-immigration-costs-california-taxpayers-more-than-25-billion-a-year-finds-fair
26. http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/cruz-lifts-idea-cartel-funded-border-wall-ingraham/
27. http://prospect.org/article/democrats’-‘working-class-problem’
28. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-border-wall-delay-san-diego-20170727-story.html
29. http://www.speaker.gov/video/wall-lets-get-it-done
30. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/apr/25/donald-trump/illegal-immigration-lowest-17-years-trump-said/
31. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/20/sessions-to-potential-illegal-immigrants-dont-come-wait-your-turn.html
32. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/11/trumps-tough-immigration-rhetoric-slows-illegal-border-crossings-were-at-trickle.html
33. https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-republicans-rebuff-donald-trumps-health-care-push-1501630741; http://www.gallup.com/poll/1600/congress-public.aspx
34. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/26/the-six-senate-republicans-who-flip-flopped-in-favor-of-obamacare/
35. http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/buchanan-trump-reacted-to-syria-emotionally/
36. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-exclusive-idUSKCN12P2PZ
37. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/horrible-pictures-of-suffering-moved-trump-to-action-on-syria/2017/04/07/9aa9fcc8-1bce-11e7-8003-f55b4c1cfae2_story.html?utm_term=.5964514ff35e
38. http://fortune.com/2017/03/21/neil-gorsuch-opening-statement/
39. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRUMP_MOOD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-05-14-13-47-46
40. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/03/finally-know-steve-bannons-whiteboard-donald-trump-promises-voters/
41. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/16/dennis-kucinich-calls-high-bs-quotient-on-wapo-story-asks-who-leaked/
42. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/17/trump-under-siege-more-than-60-percent-of-nsc-employees-placed-by-obama/
43. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-administration-appointee-tracker/database/
44. http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/trump-moving-swiftly-to-appoint-conservative-judges/
45. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/02/ben-rhodes-new-focus-unmasking-investigation.html
46. http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon
47. http://time.com/4681094/reince-priebus-steve-bannon-cpac-interview-transcript/
48. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/06/26/president-trumps-claim-that-ms-13-gang-members-are-being-deported-by-the-thousands/?utm_term=.159646c07bac
49. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-03/manufacturing-pickup-in-u-s-signals-boost-to-economic-growth
50. http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/05/news/economy/trump-trade-protectionism-g20/index.html
51. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-germany-idUSKBN19R345 and https://www.wsj.com/articles/g-20-leaders-set-to-reach-compromise-on-trade-at-summit-1499513260?mod=e2fb
52. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/13/AR2011011301532_5.html