W. Niederhut Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 (edited) 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) Edited July 26 by W. Niederhut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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W. Niederhut Posted July 27 Author Share Posted July 27 Trump Says Christians Won’t Have to Vote in Future: ‘We’ll Have It Fixed’ (rollingstone.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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W. Niederhut Posted August 17 Author Share Posted August 17 (edited) Most read story at WaPo today... 🤥 He found a Project 2025 duffel bag. Then D.C. police came knocking. - The Washington Post August 17, 2024 Edited August 17 by W. Niederhut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Denny Zartman Posted August 22 Share Posted August 22 3 hours ago, W. Niederhut said: This one segment probably did more to bring public attention to Project 2025 than anything else so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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