Thread by @CuriousKat2017

Suppressing voting, changing legislative processes so that a normal majority could no longer prevail, sowing public distrust of government institutions— all these were tactics toward the goal.

I have been worried that we are seeing a slow moving coup.

This is taken from an article that I do not know the author of. If anyone knows who wrote it, please let me know so I may credit them.
This is exactly what I have been thinking is going on. It would explain the actions of the GOP in congress not only now but over the last decade

While Americans grapple with Donald Trump’s chaotic presidency, we may be missing the key to changes that are taking place far beyond the level of mere politics. Once these changes are locked into place, there may be no going back.

The historian plunged in, and she read through boxes and drawers full of papers that included personal correspondence between Buchanan and billionaire industrialist Charles Koch. That’s when she had an amazing realization:

here was the intellectual linchpin of a stealth revolution currently in progress. “Each person seeks mastery over a world of slaves,” unlike even the most property-friendly founders Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, Buchanan wanted a private governing elite

of corporate power that was wholly released from public accountability.
Suppressing voting, changing legislative processes so that a normal majority could no longer prevail, sowing public distrust of government institutions— all these were tactics toward the goal.

But the Holy Grail was the Constitution: alter it and you could increase and secure the power of the wealthy in a way that no politician could ever challenge.

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