"Trump's presidency was the culmination of the capture of the GOP by a far-right network of donors brought together by the Koch Brothers and the hundreds of organizations they fund." -- @NancyMacLean5 on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/democrac…
"The Federalist Society has captured our courts. Six SCOTUS justices have ties to it; some are there illegitimately. 7 of 8 Senators who voted against certifying Biden as POTUS had been generously funded by the Koch donor networks. This is the product of decades of investment."
"They are using a stealth strategy to rewrite the rules of governance, up to and including the constitution, in order to enable the kind of government that prevailed in the US at the turn of the 20th century." patreon.com/posts/democrac…
"They want to operate in the dark. The more sunlight we bring to this, the more we understand it -- journalists, activists, people in the trenches -- the better off we are. Because this is a stealth operation to implement a transformative agenda dating back to the 1980s."
"If you look up the 1980 platform of the libertarian party, you get an idea of what the Kochs want. No postal service, no national parks, no public schools -- no basic public services. Government can have only three things: armies, courts, and police to control the social order."
"The Koch network realized after watching Reagan that they can't rely on elected officials. Officials want to be popular and will back off from the most extreme agendas in order to win. That is why they turned to stealth tactics -- gerrymandering, propaganda, voter suppression."
"The goal of this far-right network was to insulate elected officials from the reaction of the public. The ultimate way of insulating them is to rewrite the constitution." -- Nancy MacLean on @gaslitnation
This is a thread of paraphrased excerpts from the @gaslitnation episode "Democracy in Chains: The Nancy MacLean Interview -- Part I". Listen to the full episode here or wherever you find podcasts: patreon.com/posts/democrac…
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