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Conservatives are horrified that so many supposedly pro-Trump ventures are mainly about scamming his supporters. But their horror shows their ignorance of their movement's history 1/ nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Rick Perlstein documented years back the extent to which the modern conservative movement actually has its origins in direct-marketing scams -- extremist politics is, to an important extent, just a way to sell patent medicine and get-rich-quick schemes 2/ thebaffler.com/salvos/the-lon…
I followed up last year by noting that even "intellectuals" like Ben Shapiro are actually in the business of selling nutritional supplements 3/ nytimes.com/2018/08/21/opi… 
And think about Fox News, not just as a force for evil, but as a business. It's basically about selling ads to companies who see a potential market in grumpy old white men. So of course Trumpism is infected with grifters. So is the whole right 4/
