Fear and Fury Quotes

“as inequality and desperation had deepened between 1980 and 2025, it had required an altogether new level of fact distortion, even more unabashed pandering to privilege, and a more intentional stoking of racial resentment and rage to persuade so many ordinary white voters that it still made sense to give away their own hard-won rights, opportunities, and economic security. Continuing to sell the brutal trickle-down economics of the long Reagan Revolution would now require not just a conservative press but a rage- and race-baiting misinformation media machine. Such was needed to translate the brutal fallout of this dramatic political and economic turn in such a way that any anger it might spawn would be directed not at those who were actually responsible for it but rather at those who suffered it most acutely.”
― Heather Ann Thompson, Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage