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" I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change. "

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" As I explored Trump's inextricable relationship with his commercial brand, and its implications for the future of politics, I began to see why so many of the attacks on him have failed to stick - and how we can identify ways of resisting him that will be more effective. "

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" If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be. "

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" He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible. "

" I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast. "

" I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump. "

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" Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies. "

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" I am not saying Russia is not important, but Trump's base is very well defended against that: 'the liberal media is out to get him', 'it's fake news', and all the rest. "

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" The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry. "

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" When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world. "

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" I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall. "