Furious Minds Quotes

“BETWEEN 2016 AND 2024, over the course of less than a decade, American conservatism capitulated to—and took a part in fomenting—a far-right populist movement that led to the nomination of Donald J. Trump as the Republican Party’s candidate for the US presidency, and then catapulted him into power, twice. This new movement was inspired by Trump, but the seeds were there long before him, and the movement reached well beyond. It transformed US conservatism, including its dominant intellectual wing. Over the course of the first Trump administration, various groups of conservative thinkers coalesced, at different times and for different reasons, and more or less enthusiastically, behind Trumpism.”
― Laura K. Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

“If you argue with a madman,” the English critic wrote, “it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.”
― Laura K. Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

“But the governing virtues of America are feminine vices, associated with certain feminine virtues, such as empathy, fairness, and equality.”
― Laura K. Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

“Sometimes, not having a PhD can be a boon to clear thinking.”
― Laura K. Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

“There is not much to differentiate the Cathedral from Plato’s original notion of the Cave, now with a modern inflection, or from Nietzsche’s worries about the Last Man, or plotlines from The Matrix.”
― Laura K. Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

“Yarvin is full of contempt for the democratic hoi polloi, including its white denizens, which puts him somewhat at odds with the populist GOP.”
― Laura K. Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

“How can man die better, than by facing fearful odds for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods?”
― Laura K. Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

“Pappin argued that Trump was “a statesman who knew that the basis of real political deeds, even in 2016, lay in love of real community.” If you say so, Gladden.”
― Laura K. Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

“Becoming a mother has made me ferociously attached to liberalism—”
― Laura K. Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right