Sublime

Right-wing pundits like Kurt Schlichter and sites like the Daily Caller frequently use New Right ideas, jokes, and even slang.

In a revealing private letter, one of its staff members explained the group’s “Astroturf” strategy. In reality, he said, big-business industrialists would run the group, serving as its “anonymous quarterbacks,” and “call the turns.” But he said they needed to sell the “yarn” that the group was “composed of housewives, farmers, small businessmen, pr

Walter Duranty is now largely considered a media outlier or an anomaly, a reporter whose character flaws slipped through the editorial cracks of his institution. But the reality is that Duranty fits a prominent pattern at the Times of a star reporter whose celebrity enables him or her to commit journalistic malfeasance in plain sight of his editors

The Birchers agitated to impeach Chief Justice Earl Warren after the Supreme Court voted to desegregate the public schools in the case Brown v. Board of Education, which had originated in Topeka, in the Kochs’ home state of Kansas. “The colored man looms large in the Communist plan to take over America,” Fred Koch claimed in his pamphlet. Welfare i

established the President’s Commission on the Status of Women,

Une précision s’impose à ce stade. Certes, l’extrême droite n’a pas besoin d’imposer toutes ses idées, de construire une hégémonie culturelle, pour arriver au pouvoir. Mais une fois en responsabilités, elle ne renie pas cette pratique. Meloni l’a bien compris, qui affirme vouloir « cambiare la narrazione », c’est-à-dire changer le récit dominant. S

According to Doherty’s history, the Kochs came to regard elected politicians as merely “actors playing out a script.” Instead of wasting more time, a confidant of the Kochs’ told Doherty, the brothers now wanted to “supply the themes and words for the scripts.” In order to alter the direction of America, they realized they would have to “influence