“A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might write about it as being the first internet election, in which what happened was actually an expression in the real world of a virtual reality. And you've been writing about that subject for a while.” WorldFeelsWritingYearsFirstsRealStoriesRealityMightHappenedSubjectsExpressionTrumpInternetElectionReal WorldHistorianPropheticVirtual Reality Author:Zadie Smith
“The people that voted for Donald Trump, the vast majority of them really thought that if Hillary Clinton won this election, that was it, that was America, say good-bye to it. She would have had the Supreme Court nominations for all the people retiring and a bunch of the left would have retired, and who knows who else. It would have been the ongoing opening up the country to outsiders and expanding the government to take care of outsiders, who are called immigrants.” PeopleIfsKnowsHas BeensCountryGovernmentCareAmericaLeftTrumpElectionMajorityCourtClintonTake CareSupremeBunchOpeningImmigrantsRetiringOutsidersSupreme CourtExpandingRetiredOngoingByeGood ByeNominationsOpening UpSaying Good Bye Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Trump's election is generally bad news.... In international policy, one can imagine that if Trump were foolish enough to go ahead with his pledge to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it would be widely experienced throughout the Islamic world as a provocation.” IfsWorldEnoughWould BeMovingImaginePolicyTrumpNewsElectionInternationalFoolishIslamicImagine ThatPledgeBad NewsJerusalemProvocationEmbassy Author:Richard A. Falk
“Trump's election means that you have a US government that will no longer do one thing and say another.” MeanGovernmentOne ThingTrumpElection Author:Lawrence Davidson
“It's a consensus that Trump, as the nominee, guarantees the election of Hillary Clinton. I'll guarantee you there's not a single Donald Trump supporter who thinks that.” ThinkingTrumpElectionClintonGuaranteesSupporterConsensus Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You never know how [Donald Trump] is going to react. When he learned for example that he'd lost the election by about three million votes, his instant reaction was insanity; you know, three to five million illegal immigrants somehow were organized in some incredible fashion to vote.” KnowsThreeLostMillionsKnow HowFiveFashionExampleTrumpVoteElectionIncrediblesReactionsInsanityInstantOrganizedImmigrantsIllegalIllegal Immigrants Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Washington Post is quickly trying to become the safe space for Donald Trump deniers, for the Trump-won-the-election deniers. I think the Washington Post is establishing itself as the safe space for anti-Trump delicate snowflakes to go.” ThinkingTryingSpaceTrumpSafeElectionPostsDelicateSnowflakeSafe Space Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, "How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?".” DoeHas BeensLinesTrumpInvolvedElectionVariousAdvertising Author:Errol Morris
“I'm shocked, like all of us, including Donald Trump, 'cause let's not pretend that even Donald Trump thought he was going to win this election.” WinningCausesTrumpElectionIncludingShocked Author:Margaret Hoover
“I had folks in the RNC spinning me the night of the election because they were sure that their guy [Donald Trump] was going to lose. But they were trying to make the case the RNC had at least done its job.” TryingDoneJobsNightGuyLosesCasesTrumpElectionFolksSpinning Author:Margaret Hoover
“The other reason why people don't take a stand, which is very true in this election, is looking at [Donald] Trump and fearing reprisal, fearing reprisal from someone who is seeking the highest, most powerful role in the land, who has had a history of doing everything from attacks, threats and lawsuits and who has a complete kind of vengeful, narcissistic behavior, which makes people legitimately worried, almost like a schoolyard bully, that if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?” PeopleIfsKindReasonPowerfulStepsRolesLandTrumpBehaviorHighestElectionThreatSeekingWorriedReason WhyMost PowerfulBullyNarcissisticStep UpLawsuitVery TrueVengefulReprisal Author:Reid Hoffman
“I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see more of that over the next coming weeks, because I think they'll say, "We'd like to be good for business and quiet on politics, but this is too urgent, it is too much of a key crisis in who we are going to become as Americans. We can risk too much, and so we have to step forward." And I think you will see more and more people stepping forward, like Howard Schultz, Steve Case and other folks, in order to try to make a difference in this [Donald Trump] election.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingOrderNextDifferencesStepsCasesToo MuchRiskWeekKeysTrumpQuietElectionCrisisFolksBe GoodWho We AreMaking A DifferenceRight WayUrgentStep UpSteps Forward Author:Reid Hoffman
“If we have a Democratic Senate I think the Republican Party will wake up to the reality that their opposition to comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship is a losing proposition. That Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric and derogatory comments do not really work in a national election. And I think we'll have a better chance to actually get something done.” IfsThinkingDoneRealityChancePartyPathTrumpRepublicanLosingWake UpElectionDemocraticImmigrationReformOppositionCommentSenateRhetoricCitizenshipRepublican PartyPropositionsComprehensiveImmigration ReformDerogatory Author:Hillary Clinton
“I would have bet money that Britain would not vote to leave the EU, and I would have been wrong. I would have bet money that Trump would not have been the Republican nominee, and I would have been wrong and I certainly would have bet money that he wouldn't win the election.” Has BeensWinningTrumpRepublicanVoteElectionBritain Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Donald Trump disproved the notion that there is a direct dollar-for-dollar correlation between how much money you had in your traditional war chest and what your election outcome was going to be.” WarTrumpDirectElectionDollarsNotionTraditionalOutcomesChestsCorrelation Author:Sheldon Whitehouse
“The election of Donald Trump is, to me, this very clownish personality with no political experience, who had literally been using fascist slogans in his campaign. It had seemed so impossible. Even after he was elected, and even now, it still feels impossible. It felt like we had fallen into this wormhole of history.” FeelsStillsPoliticalFeltImpossiblePersonalityTrumpElectionCampaignsFallenSlogansFascistsWormholes Author:Ben H. Winters
“The membrane between where we are right now and a very different reality, is so much thinner than we like to think. Things can go back, and things can go to the side, and things can go to places where we might not even have been on guard that they might go. I think that if there is a great gift that this [Donald Trump] election gave us, is this sort of sense of vigilance, the sense that we have to remain on guard. We have to support our free press.” IfsThinkingHas BeensDifferentRealityMightSidesSupportTrumpRight NowElectionPressesVigilanceGreat GiftsFree PressMembranesDifferent Realities Author:Ben H. Winters
“While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why so many people responded to Donald Trump's demagoguery.” PeopleTrumpNewsElectionFactorsVotersSuppressionHackingDemagogueryVoter Suppression Author:Riane Eisler
“I think Donald Trump is very uninterested in his business. In the past he would be talking up his business, but since the election, I've seen almost a laser-like focus on his job as president. What gets him lit up the most in any conversation is bringing jobs into these midwestern states that have suffered because of technology and trade policies.” ThinkingStatesWould BeJobsPastPresidentTalkingTechnologyFocusPolicyTrumpConversationElectionTradeLitLasersUninterested Author:Christopher Ruddy
“News about the Russia connections to the [Donald Trump] administration and what we are continuing to learn about those connections. What`s getting to be, I think, particularly unsettling is that simultaneously we are right now what`s going on, I think, is that we are number one nailing down more direct connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government at the time the Russian government was influencing our election.” ThinkingGovernmentNumbersInfluenceTrumpRight NowNewsDirectConnectionsElectionCampaignsRussiaAdministrationContinuingRussian GovernmentContinuing To Learn Author:Rachel Maddow
“We`ve got [evidence] of direct Russian government connections with the [Donald] Trump campaign, during the campaign, while the Russian government was interfering in our election to try to elect Trump.” TryingGovernmentTrumpEvidenceDirectConnectionsElectionCampaignsInterfereRussian Government Author:Rachel Maddow
“Part of what the [British] dossier says is this, quote, "The operation", meaning the effort to influence our election, "that has been conducted with the full knowledge and support of [Donald] Trump and senior members of his campaign team. In return, in return, the Trump team has agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue."” Has BeensEffortSupportIssuesTeamInfluenceReturnTrumpMembersElectionBritishCampaignsOperationsSeniorInterventionUkraineSidelines Author:Rachel Maddow
“This [British] dossier is still considered to be mostly uncorroborated but it`s overall allegation is that the Trump folks knew, the [Donald] Trump folks knew about the Russian campaign to interfere in our election, they supported it, they cooperated with it, and in exchange, they made promises to the Russians.” MadeStillsTrumpPromiseElectionFolksBritishCampaignsInterfereAllegations Author:Rachel Maddow
“WikiLeaks is a lot of things. This past year, WikiLeaks was a tool of Russian intelligence and the Russian government and their interference operation against the American presidential election to benefit Donald Trump.” YearsGovernmentPastTrumpBenefitsToolsElectionPresidentialOperationsInterferencePresidential ElectionAmerican PresidentWikileaksRussian Government Author:Rachel Maddow
“I think there are a lot of factors going into an election. I think the bottom line is - is that Donald Trump is gonna be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. And it's not necessarily profitable to sort of try to untangle all the different factors that went into it.” ThinkingTryingDifferentStatesAmericaPresidentLinesUnitedUnited StatesTrumpElectionBottomFactorsUnited States Of AmericaBottom LineProfitable Author:Barack Obama
“The report produced by my commission, the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security, in 2012 showed the corrosive impact of money in US politics, for example, which undermines the legitimacy of the democratic system in citizens' eyes. Such perceptions partly explain the rise of a phenomenon like the success of Donald Trump.” EyeDemocracySecurityExampleTrumpCitizensPerceptionElectionImpactDemocraticReportsPhenomenonLegitimacy Author:Kofi Annan
“So Americans do want their presidents, by and large, you want them to be people who get things done and have experience. That's going to be Trump's big disadvantage going into this election, because people are going to be looking back and saying, we've got the guy without the experience who said the things that sounded good. And guess what? That hasn't worked out for us too well.” PeopleWantWellsSaidDoneBigsGuyPresidentTrumpElectionLooking BackThings DoneDisadvantages Author:Karl Rove