Originally published at: How the Right Captured State Power as a Weapon in Its Anti-Government Crusade
This article is an excerpt from The Fourth Branch: How State Government Can Save Our Union. President Reagan entered to a standing ovation. It was the last year of his presidency, and he was feeling, as he often did, nostalgic. “I’m not joking when I say that every one of the eight times I’ve met…
Great article.
Paul Weyrich’s name had been in the back of my mind for a long time, but this really explains who he was and what his goals were and what he actually accomplished.
And here we are today.
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More proof that Saint Ronnie was a huckster, little more than a beaming used car salesman unloading a piece of junk with egg in the radiator, sawdust in the transmission and water in the oil and calling it “like new.”
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It’s in our name – the United States of America.
We’re not a federal government.
We are a union of separate states.
They (we) are the small government experiment.
Today’s Republicans favor an all-knowing, secretive, global federal power.
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There’s a special place in Hell for Lewis Powell Jr.
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Great title for this article.
Among the worst states that have been targeted by ALEC is Iowa.
Did I mention Chuck’s grandson Pat Grassley has been Iowa Legislature Speaker of the House since 2020?
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Ernst raked in $13,000,000 from Smithfield Foods.
Grassley raked in $7,000,000 from Smithfield Foods.
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