# Devil's Bargain

## Metadata
- Author: [[Joshua Green]]
- Full Title: Devil's Bargain
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- Politics is downstream from culture,” Breitbart liked to say. “I want to change the cultural narrative.” What this meant was that Breitbart was less interested in trying to influence Washington directly than he was in going after the institutions (and the methods they employed, like “political correctness”) that he believed shaped this narrative. ([Location 1209](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0728KHFD5&location=1209))
- “Most conservatives are individualists,” Breitbart said. “For years, they’ve been pummeled by the collectivists who run the American media, Hollywood and Washington. The underground conservative movement that is now awakening is the ecosystem I’ve designed my sites to tap into.” ([Location 1251](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0728KHFD5&location=1251))
- One of the realities that I don’t think was truly appreciated by our campaign,” Brian Fallon, Clinton’s communications director, admitted after the election, “was just how profound the Breitbart effect was in cultivating a standalone ecosystem in conservative media that very aggressively and successfully promoted certain stories and narratives we had a blind spot for during the campaign.” The Mercers cut a higher profile, ([Location 1829](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0728KHFD5&location=1829))