By Lee Fang
Earlier than Barack Obama had even taken the oath of place of work after his old victory in 2008, cadres of lobbyists, oil tycoons, and right-wing politicians met to devise his political dying. the large conservative infrastructure created through enterprise teams starting within the Seventies wouldn't be enough, they concluded: within the age of Obama, whatever new—and bold—had to be done.
Four years later, the blogger who uncovered the nefarious Koch brothers and who first said at the lobbyists who introduced us the Tea events supplies us an excellent, withering exposé of the plans to make the United States conservative back. knowledgeable by way of years of deep examine and firsthand reporting, Lee Fang "knows it greater than somebody writing today" (Jennifer Granholm). He dissects the dynamics of the conservative message computer, lines the money path, and explicates how the right-wing desktop has cleverly tailored to overwhelm Obama and revolutionary reform. Fang additionally takes inventory of the 2012 election effects, caution us that, with Obama's reelection, the best is barely going to dig deeper ideological trenches.
One of the megastar investigative reporters of his iteration, Fang has been hailed as a "fearless American muckraker" (Jane Mayer, the hot Yorker). during this vital guide, he sheds gentle at the darkest corners of the hot conservative stream, telling the tale of the folks, the cash, and the recommendations that makes it tick. The computer is key examining for somebody taken with the way forward for our democracy.
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