Democracy in Chains-- The Chevron Doctrine and Project 2025

[W. Niederhut]

       No one can accurately understand American deep political history during the past 50 years without studying the landmark, award-winning research of Duke University historian Nancy MacLean, in Democracy in Chains.  It's a must-read for American history scholars.

       MacLean was able to access the historical archives of the Nobel Laureate, James McGill Buchanan, and his stealth work for billionaire Charles Koch, beginning in the 70s, to construct a network of heavily-funded, right-wing think tanks to implement Koch's plutocratic, libertarian deconstruction of the U.S. Federal government-- CATO, Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, et.al.

       By 2010, the Kochs had, effectively, purchased control of the Republican Party.

Amazon.com: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America: 9781101980972: MacLean, Nancy: Books

       An important part of the long-term Buchanan/Koch strategy was to hijack the SCOTUS, and then use a plutocratic Koch/GOP SCOTUS to hamstring Federal pro publica laws of the past century.

       The Buchanan/Koch stealth plan has now succeeded in overturning a century of campaign-finance reforms, (Citizens United) the Voting Rights Act, (Shelby v. Holder) Roe v. Wade, and the Chevron Doctrine.

       Charles Koch's goal, for the past half-century, has been to hamstring and de-fund pro publica Federal programs that protect citizen rights and the public good, (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, worker safety, labor unions, and pollution controls) in order to cut taxes for billionaires.

       It worked...

Chevron deference | Wex | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute (cornell.edu)

 

 

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