One. The Sleeping Giant Awakens
1. “Invasion” (advertisement), January 5, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-SC1uUiT9s.
1. “Election 2016: District of Columbia Results,” New York Times, August 1, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/district-of-columbia.
2. “Election 2016: West Virginia Results,” New York Times, August 1, 2017, https:// www.nytimes.com/elections/results/west-virginia.
Four. A Meritocracy without Merit
1. Matthew Q. Clarida and Nicholas P. Fandos, “Substantiating Fears of Grade Inflation, Dean Says Median Grade at Harvard College Is A–, Most Common Grade Is A,” Harvard Crimson, December 3, 2013 (updated May 26, 2017), http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/3/grade-inflation-mode-a.
2. Eric Levenson, “In R-Rated Anti-Trump Rant, Madonna Muses about ‘Blowing up White House,’” CNN Politics, January 21, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/21/politics/madonna-speech-march.
1. Neil deGrasse Tyson (@NeilTyson), “To all on the Gregorian Calendar, Happy New Year! A day that’s not astronomically significant… in any way… at all… whatsoever,” Twitter, January 1, 2017, https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/815646657194754048.
2. “These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?” New Yorker, December 27, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a20630.
1. “Americans’ Confidence in Institutions Edges Up,” Gallup News, June 26, 2017, http://news.gallup.com/poll/212840/americans-confidence-insti tutions-edges.aspx.
2. Spenser S. Hsu, “FBI Admits Flaws in Hair Analysis over Decades,” Washington Post, April 18, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-forensic-hair-matches-in-nearly-all-criminal-trials-for-decades/2015/04/18/39c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html.
Eight. Looking Down Their Noses
1. Tim Hains, “Former CIA Official Phil Mudd Warns Trump: ‘Think Again’ about War with Intel Community, ‘We’re Going to Win,’” Real Clear Politics, February 4, 2018, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/02/04/phil_mudd_warns_trump_in_war_with_intelligence_community_were_going_to_win.html.
Nine. Pitchforks, Torches, and Conservative, Inc.
1. William F. Buckley, “Our Mission Statement,” National Review, November 19, 1955, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/223549/our-mission-statement-william-f-buckley-jr.
2. Peter Robinson, “Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, and William F. Buckley Jr.,” Forbes, December 12, 2008, https://www.forbes.com/2008/12/11/friedman-reagan-buckley-oped-cx_pr_1212robinson.html.
3. David W. Moore, “Bush Job Approval Reflects Record ‘Rally’ Effect,” Gallup News, September 18, 2001, http://news.gallup.com/poll/4912/bush-job-approval-reflects-record-rally-effect.aspx.
4. Chris Isidore, “Buffett Says He’s Still Paying Lower Tax Rate than His Secretary,” CNN Money, March 3, 2013, http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/04/news/economy/buffett-secretary-taxes.
5. “Jamiel Shaw Sr: Illegal Who Killed Son Raised ‘Like a Rabid Pitbull.’” Fox News Insider, June 29, 2017, http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/06/29/immigration-illegal-crime-kates-law-congress-mexico-jamiel-shaw.
1. Stephen A. Camarota, “Welfare Use by Legal and Illegal Immigrant Households: An Analysis of Medicaid, Cash, Food, and Housing Programs” (report), Center for Immigration Studies, September 2015, https://cis.org/sites/default/files/camarota-welfare-illegals_1.pdf.
2. Michael Kelly, “Ted Kennedy on the Rocks,” GQ, February 1990, https://www.gq.com/story/kennedy-ted-senator-profile.
Eleven. Never Trump and the Surrender Caucus
1. James Warren, “The Worst Take of the Week? David Brooks Slammed for ‘Sandwich Shop’ Elitism,” Vanity Fair, July 12, 2017, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/david-brooks-worst-take-of-the-week.
2. Meyer, Jeffrey. “David Brooks: Jeb Should Become the ‘Laxative’ Candidate,” Newsbusters, November 1, 2015, https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jeffrey-meyer/2015/11/01/david-brooks-jeb-should-become-laxative-candidate.
3. Liz Spayd, “Bret Stephens Takes on Climate Change. Readers Unleash Their Fury,” New York Times, May 3, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/ 2017/05/03/public-editor/bret-stephens-climate-change-liz-spayd-public-editor.html.
4. Bret Stephens, “Repeal the Second Amendment,” New York Times, October 1, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/opinion/guns-second-amendment-nra.html.
5. George F. Will, “America’s Bad Jeans,” Washington Post, April 16, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041502861.html.
6. George F. Will, “Trump’s Moore Endorsement Sunk the Presidency to Unplumbed Depths,” Washington Post, December 13, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-moore-endorsement-sunk-the-presidency-to-unplumbed-depths/2017/12/13/3c245482-e036-11e7-bbd0-9dfb2e37492a_story.html.
7. Robert Barnes, “Federalist Society, White House Cooperation on Judges Paying Benefits,” Washington Post, November 18, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/federalist-society-white-house-cooperation-on-judges-paying-benefits/2017/11/18/4b69b4da-cb20-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html.
8. David Frum (@DavidFrum), “US-UK intervention offered Iraq a better future. Whatever West’s mistakes: sectarian war was a choice Iraqis made for themselves,” Twitter, July 6, 2016, https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/750649573245329408.
9. Jennifer Rubin, “They Came, They Marched, They Inspired,” Washington Post, March 24, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/03/24/they-came-they-marched-they-inspired.
10. The Love Boat, ABC Television, 1977–1986.
11. Bill Kristol, “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: President Obama’s Unapologetic, Freedom-Agenda-Embracing, Not-Shrinking-from-the-Use-of-Force Speech,” Weekly Standard, March 28, 2011, http://www.weeklystandard.com/you-ve-come-long-way-baby/article/555622.
12. Bill Kristol (@BillKristol), “Obviously strongly prefer normal democratic and constitutional politics. But if it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state,” Twitter, February 14, 2017, https://twitter.com/billkristol/status/831497364661747712.
13. Max Boot, “2017 Was the Year I Learned about My White Privilege,” Foreign Policy, December 27, 2017, http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/ 12/27/2017-was-the-year-i-learned-about-my-white-privilege.
1. Aaron Blake, “Hillary Clinton Takes Her ‘Deplorables’ Argument for Another Spin,” Washington Post, March 13, 2018, https://www.washing tonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/03/12/hillary-clinton-takes-her-deplorables-argument-for-another-spin.
2. Dinita Smith, “No Regrets for a Love of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life with the Weathermen,” New York Times, September 11, 2001, https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/books/no-regrets-for-love-explosives-memoir-sorts-war-protester-talks-life-with.html.
3. Laura J. Nelson, “Irate Commuters Threaten a Lawsuit over Narrowed Streets in Playa del Rey,” Los Angeles Times, June 23, 2017, http://www.lat imes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bike-lane-backlash-20170623-story.html.
4. Tamar Haspel, “Illegal Immigrants Help Fuel U.S. Farms. Does Affordable Produce Depend on Them?” Washington Post, March 17, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/in-an-immigration-crackdown-who-will-pick-our-produce/2017/03/17/cc1c6df4-0a5d-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html.
5. John Horgan, “What War Propaganda Like ‘American Sniper’ Reveals about Us,” Scientific American, February 2, 2015, https://blogs.scientificam erican.com/cross-check/what-war-propaganda-like-8220-american-sniper-8221-reveals-about-us.
6. Curtis Houck, “MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle Turns to Dan Rather to Attack Trump’s ‘Fake News Trophy’ Tweet,” Newsbusters, November 27, 2017, https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2017/11/27/msnbcs-stephanie-ruhle-turns-dan-rather-attack-trumps-fake-news.
7. F. J. Schaffner, director, Patton, 20th Century Fox, 1970.
8. Amanda Sakuma, “Trump Did Better with Blacks, Hispanics than Romney in ’12: Exit Polls,” NBC News, November 9, 2016, Retrieved at https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/trump-did-better-blacks-hispanics-romney-12-exit-polls-n681386.