Notes

INTRODUCTION

1 Larry Paros, “Mourning in America,” Huffington Post, November 10, 2016, http://​www.huffingtonpost.com/​larry-paros/​mourning-in-america_b_12902508.html.

2 “President Trump: A Colossal Failure for Democracy and Our Terrifying New Reality,” Salon.com, November 9, 2016, http://​www.salon.com/​2016/​11/​09/​a-colossal-failure-of-democracy-president-trump-is-almost-certainly-our-terrifying-new-reality/.

3 Josiah Ryan, “‘This Was a Whitelash’: Van Jones’ Take on the Election Results,” CNN, November 9, 2016, http://​www.cnn.com/​2016/​11/​09/​politics/​van-jones-results-disappointment-cnntv/.

5 Mark Joseph Stern, “I Am a Gay Jew in Trump’s America. And I Am Afraid for My Life,” Slate.com, November 9, 2016, http://​www.slate.com/​blogs/​outward/​2016/​11/​09/​i_am_a_gay_jew_in_trump_s_america_and_i_am_terrified.html.

Part I: The Adversary

I:2

1 Louis Jacobson, “Mitt Romney Praised Donald Trump’s Business Skill in 2012, then Flip-Flopped in 2016,” Politifact, March 6, 2016, http://​www.politifact.com/​truth-o-meter/​statements/​2016/​mar/​06/​mitt-romney/​mitt-romney-praised-donald-trumps-business-skill-2/.

2 Eric Bradner and Catherine Treyz, “Romney Implores: Bring down Trump,” CNN, March 3, 2016, http://​www.cnn.com/​2016/​03/​03/​politics/​mitt-romney-presidential-race-speech/.

3 Yousef Saba, “Jeb Bush: ‘No Apology Can Excuse Away Donald Trump’s Reprehensible Comments,’” Politico, October 7, 2016, http://​www.politico.com/​story/​2016/​10/​jeb-bush-donald-trump-comments-women-229314#ixzz4NTDMVY7B.

4 Cooper Allen and Fredreka Schouten, “Trump Apologizes for Video Bragging about Groping Women,” USA Today, October 8, 2016, http://​www.usatoday.com/​story/​news/​politics/​onpolitics/​2016/​10/​07/​trump-washington-post-women-billy-bush-video/​91743992/.

5 “BFFs Bill Clinton, George W. Bush Talk about Hillary, Jeb, and Their Friendship,” The Week, July 9, 2015, http://​theweek.com/​speedreads/​565703/​bffs-bill-clinton-george-w-bush-talk-about-hillary-jeb-friendship.

6 “Limbaugh: GOP Doesn’t Want to Win,” Patriot News Daily, October 12, 2016, http://​patriotnewsdaily.com/​limbaugh-gop-doesnt-want-to-win/.

I:3

1 Andrew C. McCarthy, “The Problem Is Not the Presidential Candidates,” PJ Media, October 17, 2016, https://​pjmedia.com/​andrewmccarthy/​2016/​10/​17/​the-problem-is-not-the-presidential-candidates/​2/.

2 Lauren Windsor, “Caught on Tape: What Mitch McConnell Complained about to a Roomful of Billionaires (Exclusive),” The Nation, August 26, 2014, https://​www.thenation.com/​article/​caught-tape-what-mitch-mcconnell-complained-about-roomful-billionaires-exclusive/.

3 McCarthy, “The Problem Is Not the Presidential Candidates.”

4 I have previously written an entire book devoted to providing a response, which can be read as a supplement to this one: Take No Prisoners: The Battle Plan for Defeating the Left (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2014).

I:4

1 Phil Gramm, “Where Clinton Will Take ObamaCare,” Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2016, http://​www.wsj.com/​articles/​where-clinton-will-take-obamacare-1476746073.

2 Angie Drobnic Holan, “In Context: Hillary Clinton and the ‘Basket of Deplorables,’” Politifact, September 11, 2016, http://​www.politifact.com/​truth-o-meter/​article/​2016/​sep/​11/​context-hillary-clinton-basket-deplorables/.

3 Charlie Spiering, “Hillary Clinton Tries to Smear Donald Trump with KKK Newspaper,” Breitbart, November 3, 2016, http://​www.breitbart.com/​2016-presidential-race/​2016/​11/​03/​hillary-clinton-kkk-newspaper-endorsed-donald-trump/; Charlie Spiering, “Obama: Donald Trump Would Tolerate Klan If Elected President,” Breitbart, November 3, 2016, http://​www.breitbart.com/​2016-presidential-race/​2016/​11/​03/​obama-donald-trump-will-tolerate-klu-klux-klan-elected-president/.

I:5

1 “Read the Full Transcript of the Second Presidential Debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump,” Fortune, October 9, 2016, http://​fortune.com/​2016/​10/​09/​presidential-debate-read-transcript-donald-trump-hillary-clinton.

2 Jack Cashill, You Lie! The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama (Kindle Edition, Broadside e-books, 2014).

3 John Nolte, “Bombshell: ‘Washington Post’ Confirms Hillary Clinton Started the Birther Movement,” Breitbart, September 26, 2015, http://​www.breitbart.com/​big-journalism/​2015/​09/​26/​washington-post-confirms-hillary-clinton-started-the-birther-movement/.

4 Larry Elder, “Is America Racist?,” PragerU, January 18, 2016, https://​www.prageru.com/​courses/​race-relations/​america-racist.

5 Ibid.

I:6

1 Jim Hoft, “Rumblings: Top Paul Ryan Advisor Leaked Trump Sex Talk Tape to WaPo (Updated),” The Gateway Pundit, October 10, 2016, http://​www.thegatewaypundit.com/​2016/​10/​report-top-paul-ryan-advisor-leaked-trump-sex-talk-tape-wapo/.

I:7

1 The analysis of Alinsky that follows is drawn from David Horowitz, “Rules for Revolution,” in The Left in Power: Clinton to Obama, volume 7 of The Black Book of the American Left (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2016), chapter 4.

2 Stanley Kurtz, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism (New York: Threshold, 2010).

3 Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (New York: Vintage), 3.

4 Ibid., xiii.

5 Ibid., 10–11.

6 Ibid., 24–25.

7 Ibid., 25.

8 Ryan Lizza, “The Agitator,” The New Republic, March 9, 2007.

9 Ibid., March 19, 2007.

10 Peter Slevin, “For Clinton and Obama, a Common Ideological Touchstone,” Washington Post, March 25, 2007, http://​www.washingtonpost.com/​wp-dyn/​content/​article/​2007/​03/​24/​AR2007032401152.html.

Part II: The Agenda

II:1

1 Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (New York: Vintage), xix.

2 Ibid., xxiii.

3 Angie Drobnic Holan, “Lie of the Year: ‘If You like Your Health Care Plan, You Can Keep It,’” Politifact, December 12, 2013, http://​www.politifact.com/​truth-o-meter/​article/​2013/​dec/​12/​lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-keep-it/.

4 “Joe Wilson Proved Right: Obama Did ‘Lie’ on Illegal Alien Health Coverage,” Conservative Review, February 8, 2016, https://​www.conservativereview.com/​commentary/​2016/​02/​joe-wilson-right-obama-lied-on-illegals-and-healthcare.

5 “GRUBER: Lack of Transparency Is a Huge Political Advantage,” YouTube video, posted by “AmericanCommitment,” November 7, 2014, https://​www.youtube.com/​watch?v=G790p0LcgbI; “AHEC Agenda,” University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Fourth Annual Health Economics Conference, October 17 and 18, 2013, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, http://​ldi.upenn.edu/​ahec2013/​agenda.

6 “Issues: Health Care,” HillaryClinton.com, https://​www.hillaryclinton.com/​issues/​health-care/.

II:2

2 Yuval Levin and Ramesh Ponnuru, “Hillary Is an Embodiment of the Left’s Disdain for Democracy,” National Review, September 26, 2016, http://​www.nationalreview.com/​article/​440362/​hillary-clinton-presidential-campaign-threatens-america-republican-system.

3 These words were spoken by Jonathan Gruber, a principal architect of Obamacare. “GRUBER: Lack of Transparency Is a Huge Political Advantage,” YouTube video, posted by “AmericanCommitment,” November 7, 2014, https://​www.youtube.com/​watch?v=G790p0LcgbI.

4 Jonathan Easley, “Sanders: Climate Change Still Greatest Threat to National Security,” The Hill, November 14, 2015, http://​thehill.com/​policy/​energy-environment/​260184-sanders-climate-change-still-greatest-threat-to-national-security.

5 “Issues: Climate Change,” HillaryClinton.com, https://​www.hillaryclinton.com/​issues/​climate/.

II:3

1 “Obama: ‘Fundamentally Transforming the United States of America’ Long Version,” YouTube video, posted by “jbranstetter04,” May 20, 2011, https://​www.youtube.com/​watch?v=KrefKCaV8m4.

2 Michael Kelly, “Saint Hillary,” New York Times, May 23, 1993, http://​www.nytimes.com/​1993/​05/​23/​magazine/​saint-hillary.html?pagewanted=all.

3 “2016 Democratic Party Platform,” American Presidency Project, July 21, 2016, http://​www.presidency.ucsb.edu/​ws/​index.php?pid=117717.

4 John Fonte, “Transformers,” Claremont Institute, October 19, 2016, http://​www.claremont.org/​crb/​basicpage/​transformers/.

5 “2016 Democratic Party Platform.”

II:4

1 John Fonte, “Transformers,” Claremont Institute, October 19, 2016, http://​www.claremont.org/​crb/​basicpage/​transformers/.

2 Tom Tancredo, “Obama Invites 18.7 Million Immigrants to Avoid Oath of Allegiance, Pledge to Defend America,” Breitbart, June 25, 2016, http://​www.breitbart.com/​big-government/​2016/​06/​25/​obama-invites-18-7-million-immigrants-avoid-oath-allegiance-pledge-defend-america/.

3 Ian Schwartz, “Trump: ‘We Don’t Have a Country without a Border,’” RealClear Politics, July 24, 2015, http://​www.realclearpolitics.com/​video/​2015/​07/​24/​trump_we_dont_have_a_country_without_a_border.html.

4 This came to light in the WikiLeaks documents.

5 Fonte, “Transformers.”

6 David Horowitz, Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2004), 196–97.

8 “Rep. Louie Gohmert: The Islamist Enemy Within,” Frontpage Mag, May 16, 2013, http://​www.frontpagemag.com/​fpm/​189800/​rep-louie-gohmert-islamist-enemy-within-frontpagemagcom.

9 “Al-Qaeda: Declarations & Acts of War,” The Heritage Foundation, http://​www.heritage.org/​research/​projects/​enemy-detention/​al-qaeda-declarations.

10 “Muslim Opinion Polls: A Tiny Minority of Extremists?,” The Religion of Peace, http://​www.thereligionofpeace.com/​pages/​articles/​opinion-polls.aspx; “Beliefs and Allegiances of Muslims,” Discover the Networks, http://​www.discoverthenetworks.org/​viewSubCategory.asp?id=2454.

11 “Verse (8:12): English Translation,” The Quranic Arabic Corpus, http://​corpus.quran.com/​translation.jsp?chapter=8&verse=12.

12 Associated Press, “Analysis: Obama Telling Mubarak: Time to Go,” CBS News, February 5, 2011, http://​www.cbsnews.com/​news/​analysis-obama-telling-mubarak-time-to-go/.

13 Charles Krauthammer, “How Obama Swindled Americans on Iran,” National Review, September 10, 2015, http://​www.nationalreview.com/​article/​423845/​iran-deal-obama-resolution.

14 Donna Rachel Edmunds, “UN’s Human Rights Council Condemns Israel More than Rest of World Combined,” Breitbart, June 25, 2015, http://​www.breitbart.com/​london/​2015/​06/​25/​uns-human-rights-council-condemns-israel-more-than-rest-of-world-combined/; “Issue 589: UN Watch Testifies in U.S. Congress: UN Human Rights Council Has Turned into Frankenstein,” UN Watch, May 19, 2016, http://​www.unwatch.org/​issue-589-un-watch-testifies-u-s-congress-un-human-rights-council-turned-frankenstein/.

15 Eric Lieberman, “Obama Admin Wants to Surrender US Control over Internet to Global Bureaucracy,” The Daily Caller, September 24, 2016, http://​dailycaller.com/​2016/​09/​24/​obama-admin-wants-to-surrender-us-control-over-internet-to-global-bureaucracy/.

16 “Ginsburg to Egyptians: I Wouldn’t Use U.S. Constitution as a Model,” FOX News, February 6, 2012, http://​www.foxnews.com/​politics/​2012/​02/​06/​ginsburg-to-egyptians-wouldnt-use-us-constitution-as-model.html.

18 James Madison, The Federalist No. 10, November 22, 1787, http://​www.constitution.org/​fed/​federa10.htmto.

19 “Full Transcript: Third 2016 Presidential Debate,” Politico, October 20, 2016, http://​www.politico.com/​story/​2016/​10/​full-transcript-third-2016-presidential-debate-230063.

20 “Campaign Finance Reform (McCain-Feingold),” Discover the Networks, http://​www.discoverthenetworks.org/​viewSubCategory.asp?id=456.

21 Benjamin Oreskes, “Clinton Pledges Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United Ruling,” Politico, July 16, 2016, http://​www.politico.com/​story/​2016/​07/​hillary-clinton-citizens-united-225658#ixzz4OtlMAFTp.

22 For a book on the subject by a liberal Democrat, see Kirsten Powers, The Silencing: How the Left Is Killing Free Speech (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2015).

23 Mitchell Langbert, Anthony J. Quain, and Daniel B. Klein, “Faculty Voter Registration in Economics, History, Journalism, Law, and Psychology,” Character Issues 13, no. 3 (September 2016): 422–51, https://​econjwatch.org/​articles/​faculty-voter-registration-in-economics-history-journalism-communications-law-and-psychology.

24 Michael Stratford, “After Calling Trump a Bully, Clinton Campaign Announces Anti-Bullying Plan,” Politico, October, 27, 2016, http://​www.politico.com/​story/​2016/​10/​clinton-anti-bullying-plan-230377#ixzz4OPef5SY5.

25 Wikipedia, s.v. “Microaggression Theory,” https://​en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Microaggression_theory.

26 Josh Hedtke, “California Professors Instructed Not to Say ‘America Is the Land of Opportunity,’” The College Fix, June 10, 2015, http://​www.thecollegefix.com/​post/​22839/.

27 David Horowitz and Robert Spencer, “Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future,” Frontpage Mag, May 8, 2015, http://​www.frontpagemag.com/​fpm/​256647/​islamophobia-thought-crime-totalitarian-future-david-horowitz.

28 Wajahat Ali, Eli Clifton, Matthew Duss, Lee Fang, Scott Keyes, and Faiz Shakir, Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America, Center for American Progress, August 2011, https://​cdn.americanprogress.org/​wp-content/​uploads/​issues/​2011/​08/​pdf/​islamophobia.pdf.

Part III: The Strategy

III:2

1 Jim Hoft, “List of Debunked Groper Allegations by Corrupt Media against Donald Trump,” The Gateway Pundit, October 15, 2016, http://​www.thegatewaypundit.com/​2016/​10/​list-debunked-groper-allegations-corrupt-media-donald-trump/.

2 Tyler Durden, “Huffington Post Ends Editor’s Note Calling Trump ‘Serial Liar, Rampant Xenophobe, Racist, Misogynist,’” Zero Hedge, November 9, 2016, http://​www.zerohedge.com/​news/​2016-11-09/​huffington-post-ends-editors-note-calling-trump-serial-liar-rampant-xenophobe-racist.

III:3

1 “Trump Offers ‘New Deal’ to African-Americans in Charlotte,” Fix This Nation, October 27, 2016, http://​www.fixthisnation.com/​conservative-breaking-news/​trump-offers-new-deal-to-african-americans-in-charlotte/.

2 “Donald Trump Calls for Inner City School Choice in Speech to Values Voters,” DonaldJTrump.com, September 9, 2016, https://​www.donaldjtrump.com/​press-releases/​donald-trump-calls-for-inner-city-school-choice-in-speech-to-values-voters.

3 Kat Kane, “Democrats Just Adopted the Most Progressive Platform in Party History: 5 Things You Should Know,” HillaryClinton.com, July 25, 2016, https://​www.hillaryclinton.com/​feed/​democrats-just-adopted-the-most-progressive-platform-in-party-history-5-things-you-should-know/.

5 Ibid.

6 David Horowitz and Liz Blaine, “Rules for Revolution Applied,” The Black Book of the American Left, vol. 7: The Left in Power: Clinton to Obama (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2016).

7 Heather MacDonald, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe (New York: Encounter, 2016).

8 Daniel Greenfield, “The 131 Black Men Murdered by Black Lives Matter,” Frontpage Mag, October 25, 2016, http://​www.frontpagemag.com/​fpm/​264587/​131-black-men-murdered-black-lives-matter-daniel-greenfield.

9 Adelle Nazarian, “Black Lives Matter Accuses Police of ‘Genocide’ at UC Irvine,” Breitbart, October 10, 2016, http://​www.breitbart.com/​california/​2016/​10/​10/​black-lives-matter-accuses-police-of-genocide-at-uc-irvine/.

10 Heather MacDonald, “The Myths of Black Lives Matter,” Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2016, http://​www.wsj.com/​articles/​the-myths-of-black-lives-matter-1468087453.

11 Wikipedia, s.v. “Statistics of Incarcerated African-American Males,” https://​en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Statistics_of_incarcerated_African-American_males.

12 See Heather MacDonald, Are Cops Racist? (Lanham, MD: Ivan R. Dee, 2010).

13 Wikipedia, s.v. “Race and Crime in the United States,” https://​en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States.

14 “National Database of Non-White Elected Officials,” The Gender and Multi-Cultural Leadership Project, http://​www.gmcl.org/​database.htm.

15 “‘We Are Not Cured’: Obama Discusses Racism in America with Marc Maron,” NPR, June 22, 2015, http://​www.npr.org/​sections/​thetwo-way/​2015/​06/​22/​416476377/​we-are-not-cured-obama-discusses-racism-in-america-with-marc-maron.

III:4

1 Patricia Zengerle, “Democrats Charge Republicans with ‘War on Women’ at Convention,” Reuters, September 4, 2012, http://​www.reuters.com/​article/​2012/​09/​05/​us-usa-campaign-women-idUSBRE88401T20120905.

2 “Mario Cuomo Speaks at the Democratic National Convention,” PBS News Hour, August 27, 1996, http://​www.pbs.org/​newshour/​bb/​politics-july-dec96-cuomo_08-27/.

4 Charlotte Alter, “Hillary Clinton Calls for Closing Wage Gap on Equal Pay Day,” Time.com, April 12, 2016, http://​time.com/​4290427/​hillary-clinton-equal-pay-day/.

5 “The Equal Pay Act of 1963,” US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, https://​www.eeoc.gov/​laws/​statutes/​epa.cfm.

6 Chuck Ross, “Clinton Campaign Found ‘Huge’ Gender Pay Gap at Clinton Foundation,” The Daily Caller, October 18, 2016, http://​dailycaller.com/​2016/​10/​18/​clinton-campaign-found-huge-gender-pay-gap-at-clinton-foundation/​#ixzz4OWPjrJEV.

III:5

1 Andrew C. McCarthy, “The Problem Is Not the Presidential Candidates,” PJ Media, October 17, 2016, https://​pjmedia.com/​andrewmccarthy/​2016/​10/​17/​the-problem-is-not-the-presidential-candidates/​2/.

2 Ibid.

3 Ibid.

III:6

1 Emily Ekins, “Millennials Like Socialism—Until They Get Jobs,” Washington Post, March 24, 2016, http://​www.cato.org/​publications/​commentary/​millennials-socialism-until-they-get-jobs?gclid=CjwKEAjwtNbABRCsqO7J0_uJxWYSJAAiVo5LBtU4q_uKdiQT0GDCLl3DQkPDd89V9UhChQwYZjZ7XhoC5gzw_wcB. For more about the Reason-Rupe poll, see Emily Ekins, “Poll: Americans Like Free Markets More than Capitalism and Socialism More than a Govt Managed Economy,” Reason.com, February 12, 2015, http://​reason.com/​poll/​2015/​02/​12/​poll-americans-like-free-markets-more-th. For the Gallup poll, see Justin McCarthy, “In U.S., Socialist Presidential Candidates Least Appealing,” Gallup.com, June 22, 2015, http://​www.gallup.com/​poll/​183713/​socialist-presidential-candidates-least-appealing.aspx. For more about the Republican exit polls, see CNN: http://​www.cnn.com/​election/​primaries/​polls.

2 David Horowitz, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2006); Indoctrination U.: The Left’s War against Academic Freedom (New York: Encounter, 2009); David Horowitz, Reforming Our Universities: The Campaign for an Academic Bill of Rights (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2010); David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin, One-Party Classroom: How Radical Professors at America’s Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy (New York: Crown Forum, 2009).

3 “Preamble to the Constitution of the National Women’s Studies Association,” NWSA Journal 14, no. 1 (2002): xix–xx, https://​muse.jhu.edu/​article/​25340.

4 Wikipedia, s.v. “Intersectionality,” https://​en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Intersectionality.

5 Horowitz and Laksin, One-Party Classroom, 98–100; courses in “empire” taught by equally unqualified professors also abound (223–24).

6 Ibid.

7 Cinnamon Stillwell, “Legitimizing Censorship: ‘Islamophobia Studies’ at Berkeley,” Jihad Watch, May 23, 2015, https://​www.jihadwatch.org/​2015/​05/​legitimizing-censorship-islamophobia-studies-at-berkeley.

9 “AAUP’s 1915 Declaration of Principles,” Campus Watch, http://​www.campus-watch.org/​article/​id/​566. The document was written by two academics, Arthur O. Lovejoy and E. R. A. Seligman.

10 “Obama: ‘Fundamentally Transforming the United States of America’ Long Version,” YouTube video, posted by “jbranstetter04,” May 20, 2011, https://​www.youtube.com/​watch?v=KrefKCaV8m4.

11 Yale diversity mission statement, http://www.yale.edu.

12 Peter Van Voorhis, “Tales from K-12: How High Schools Indoctrinate Students before They Even Get to College,” The College Fix, July 5, 2016, http://​www.thecollegefix.com/​post/​28051/.

III:7

1 Valerie Richardson, “Black Lives Matter Cashes in with $100 Million from Liberal Foundations,” The Washington Times, August 16, 2016, http://​www.washingtontimes.com/​news/​2016/​aug/​16/​black-lives-matter-cashes-100-million-liberal-foun/.

2 David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin, “Socialism by Stealth,” in The New Leviathan: How the Left-wing Money Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America’s Future (New York: Crown Forum, 2012), chapter 6.

3 For the data, see “Main Funders of the Left,” Discover the Networks, http://​www.discoverthenetworks.org/​funders.

4 Horowitz and Laksin, The New Leviathan, appendices I–XVI.

5 Ibid., appendices XIV–XVI.

III:8

1 Don Walker, “WSEU Circulating Boycott Letters,” Journal Sentinel, March 30, 2011, http://​www.jsonline.com/​blogs/​news/​118910229.html.

2 Bill Glauber, “Woman Charged with Email Threats,” Journal Sentinel, March 31, 2011, http://​archive.jsonline.com/​blogs/​news/​119023079.html.

3 Deroy Murdock, “Death Threats by the Dozens in Wisconsin,” National Review, March 18, 2011, http://​www.nationalreview.com/​article/​262428/​death-threats-dozens-wisconsin-deroy-murdock.

4 Don Walker, “State Says Damage to Marble at Capitol Could Hit $7.5 Million,” Journal Sentinel, March 3, 2011, http://​www.jsonline.com/​blogs/​news/​117340918.html.

5 Ibid.

6 Matthew Vadum, Government Unions: How They Rob Taxpayers, Terrorize Workers and Threaten Our Democracy, a publication of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, 2012.

III:9

1 Tyler Durden, “Doug Band to John Podesta: ‘If This Story Gets Out, We Are Screwed,’” Zero Hedge, October 30, 2016, http://​www.zerohedge.com/​news/​2016-10-30/​doug-band-john-podesta-if-story-gets-out-we-are-screwed.

2 Ibid.

3 “Huma Abedin,” Discover the Networks, http://​www.discoverthenetworks.org/​individualProfile.asp?indid=2556; Lee Stranahan, “Clinton Right Hand Woman Huma Abedin Takes the Stage at Center of Email Scandal,” Breitbart, October 28, 2016, http://​www.breitbart.com/​big-government/​2016/​10/​28/​clinton-right-hand-woman-huma-abedin-takes-the-stage-at-center-of-email-scandal/.

III:10

1 David Goldstein, “Gore’s Refrain: ‘They’re for Powerful; We’re for People,’” Deseret News, August 5, 2000, http://​www.deseretnews.com/​article/​775647/​Gores-refrain-Theyre-for-powerful-were-for-people.html?pg=all.

2 Jacob Brogan, “The Best, Worst, and Most Embarrassing Lines of the Final Presidential Debate,” Slate.com, October 19, 2016, http://​www.slate.com/​blogs/​the_slatest/​2016/​10/​19/​memorable_lines_of_the_final_presidential_debate.html.

3 Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 38.

4 Christopher Caldwell, “The Ideological Divide,” New York Times Book Review, October 24, 2010.

5 Charles Gasparino, Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance between Barack Obama and Wall Street (New York: Sentinel, 2010), 30–31.

III:11

1 Jim Hoft, “Tavis Smiley: On Every Leading Economic Issue Black Americans Have Lost Ground under Obama,” The Gateway Pundit, January 11, 2016, http://​www.thegatewaypundit.com/​2016/​01/​tavis-smiley-on-every-leading-economic-issue-black-americans-have-lost-ground-under-obama-video/.

III:12

1 “Donald J. Trump Contract with the American Voter,” DonaldJTrump.com, https://​assets.donaldjtrump.com/​CONTRACT_FOR_THE_VOTER.pdf.

2 Ibid.

3 Tim Hains, “Trump Proposes ‘New Deal for Black America’ in Charlotte,” RealClear Politics, October 26, 2016, http://​www.realclearpolitics.com/​video/​2016/​10/​26/​trump_proposes_new_deal_for_black_america_in_charlotte.html.

4 Ibid.

5 “Donald J. Trump Contract with the American Voter.”

7 “Donald J. Trump Contract with the American Voter.”

III:13

1 “Donald J. Trump Contract with the American Voter,” DonaldJTrump.com, https://​assets.donaldjtrump.com/​CONTRACT_FOR_THE_VOTER.pdf.

2 “Transcript of Donald Trump ‘Our United America’ Speech in Miami . . . ,” The Conservative Tree House, September 17, 2016, https://​theconservativetreehouse.com/​2016/​09/​17/​transcript-of-donald-trump-our-united-america-speech-in-miami/.

3 “Full Speech: Donald Trump Rally in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (11/1/2016) Trump Obamacare Speech,” Donald Trump Speeches & Rallies, YouTube, https://​www.youtube.com/​watch?v=DYMjNLoOneQ.