{"id":24377,"date":"2017-07-19T10:13:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T14:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24377"},"modified":"2017-07-19T10:13:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T14:13:48","slug":"the-deep-history-of-the-radical-rights-stealth-plan-to-hijack-american-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/07\/19\/the-deep-history-of-the-radical-rights-stealth-plan-to-hijack-american-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deep History of the Radical Right\u2019s Stealth Plan to Hijack American Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Alternet<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/right-wing\/radical-rights-stealth-plan-america\" target=\"_blank\">The Deep History of the Radical Right\u2019s Stealth Plan to Hijack American Democracy<\/a>.  This is an interesting analysis of what frequently goes under the label of Libertarian.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Kristin Miller:<\/strong> You referred to a movement as a fifth column. Is it still a stealth movement, do you feel, or is it more in the open these days?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nancy MacLean:<\/strong> &#8230; So I don\u2019t think \u201cfifth column\u201d is necessarily the best term, but it identifies that element of their thought, which is really so far on the radical right that they have such a hostile attitude toward our democracy; it\u2019s almost as if they\u2019re outsiders bent on what one of them called a hostile takeover.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nancy MacLean also explains why I am against paying so much attention to Trump&#8217;s Tweets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Nancy MacLean:<\/strong> Well, the first thing I\u2019d say is stop paying such attention to Trump\u2019s tweets. They\u2019re a total distraction. I think we should instead be carefully watching the actions of groups like Freedom Partners, Chamber of Commerce, the Koch\u2019s big donor operation. The Club for Growth is another part of this, and Americans for Prosperity on the ground.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternet has the article The Deep History of the Radical Right\u2019s Stealth Plan to Hijack American Democracy. This is an interesting analysis of what frequently goes under the label of Libertarian. Kristin Miller: You referred to a movement as a fifth column. Is it still a stealth movement, do you feel, or is it more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24378,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24377\/revisions\/24378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}