A Brief History of the Republican Majority

Jonathan Chait with an excerpt of his book The Big Con:

I have this problem. Whenever I try to explain what’s happening in American politics-I mean, what’s really happening-I wind up sounding a bit like an unhinged conspiracy theorist. … So please give let me a chance to explain myself when I tell you the following: American politics has been hijacked by a tiny coterie of right-wing economic extremists, some of them ideological zealots, others merely greedy, a few of them possibly insane.

Filed under 2000 Elections 2004 Elections 2006 Elections 2008 Elections 3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause 7. Obsession with National Security

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