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Ryan Holiday • Ego Is the Enemy
The New Right seeks to discredit and obliterate the power of the corporate press. “My goal is to destroy the New York Times and CNN—and not just them,” Andrew Breitbart once explicitly said.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
After all, the most powerful and well-funded propagandists in politics—liberals, conservatives, and the media—have been soundly defeated. Made into fools. Schooled by a political amateur.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
The quality of Free America’s leaders steadily deteriorated—falling from Reagan to Gingrich to Ted Cruz, from William F. Buckley to Ann Coulter to Sean Hannity—with no bottom.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment
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Politically, Smart America came to be associated with the Democratic Party.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
The hijackers, Democrats and Republicans alike, have acted as if the idea that self-government depends on people being able to count on independent providers of information is a quaint relic and that the new media channels present new opportunities that creative political operatives must seize.