James Fallows Quotes

I understand that that's the theory of the case for [Donald] Trump supporters and it's what Donald Trump says, and it's possible that that is actually the case.

His [Donald Trump]support is crossing wide swaths of the party. It's not just the evangelicals. It's the moderates, as well.

Donald Trump has nobody helping him other than the people that voted for him.

I'm not saying Donald Trump voters are a cult at all. I'm saying the attitude of implicit trust, people don't trust politicians like that, and yet a lot of people will profess blanket trust of Trump.

I mean, I got reelected in 2016. Donald Trump took Montana by 20 points. I won by four. Twenty-five to 30% of my voters voted for Donald Trump. And that's not, for me, changing who I am.

Not getting rid of [Donald] Trump because there's a slew of Republican voters that don't want to get rid of Trump.

This is I think a dramatic point for conservatives. They are waking up to the fact that this guy, that Donald Trump has an ability to speak to people who they thought were theirs ideologically, people who they thought were a part of their team.

Donald Trump would not lose a single voter over any report indicating that his tax plan might not work.

My support is particularly Bernie Sanders supporters but that's drawn many [Donald] Trump supporters to start with.

I think a lot of the people that stand by Donald Trump are deplorable. And the things that they say are deplorable.

This is someone [Michael Flynn] who is considered a loyalist and as we have watched this transition process unfold, again roiled by reports of turmoil, Donald Trump seems to be really focusing right now in this initial phase on loyalists.

People like Ted Cruz, who has tried to position himself as the best second choice for [Donald] Trump supporters, wouldn't condemn him.

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

The 99 percent of those people who voted for Donald Trump are not Alt-righters. They are not racists. They've never even heard of the word.

If you unpack the statistics on who is supporting , Donald Trump, it means that there is a lot of people who hold very bigoted racist ideas and there is a lot of them.

Every candidate has passive support. It's just people that are gonna vote for him no matter what.

There are people who think that Trump's base was created by Steve Bannon - they are Alt-Right white nationalists and so forth - and that if Bannon ever turned on Trump, that everybody that voted for Trump would abandon Trump if Bannon leaves. I think that's just so much BS, I can't tell you, and so does people who voted for Trump.

All the people that you see on television defending Donald Trump have not been drafted into it.

Let me ask you, if Bannon leaves the White House, he resigns or is fired, and then starts and goes back to Breitbart or goes on TV and radio every night and starts down-talking Trump, is it gonna convince to you abandon Trump? It won't. But apparently there's people inside the White House who think that Bannon has that power. That nobody else, only Trump and Bannon could actually destroy the Trump connection with his base.

It's basically a united [Republican ] party behind [Donald Trump] and Cruz's numbers in Texas were plummeting and he was facing a possible primary challenge and this cements that this is the party of Trump.

Donald Trump is basically giving voice to a lot of people who have felt that they were voiceless.

Conservative activists, Tea Party activists, are threatening Donald Trump that if he chooses Reince Priebus, he will lose much of his base of support.

I know people have embraced Donald Trump. He may not have embraced them. But he has every - he should distance himself. This sort of alt-right movement is very disturbing.

Once you get into the [Donald] Trump stuff, you get people going, "I didn't come here to have my political views bashed."

Who voted for Trump? Who are these people who, as he famously said, would let him shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and still support him? It's people who want too strong a leader, who would do what that leader tells them. Similar to the Europeans following Mussolini and Hitler. There's a streak in humanity that likes that kind of leader. That's Trump's core. Authoritarianism.