#1225 The origins of the libertarian plan to remake America
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 6 November 2018
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Air Date: 11/6/2018
Today we take a look at the movement behind the anti-government, pro-wealthy campaign to remake America that dates back much farther than the Koch Brothers.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Jane Mayer, Dark Money - @InDeepRadio w @AngieCoiro - Air Date 3-23-18
Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah moved into prominence with the publication of investigative reporter Jane Mayer’s book, Dark Money.
Historian Nancy MacLean examines the libertarian right's revolutionary plan for America - from an ideological capture of think tanks and the GOP to its plan for a society stripped of social programs and democratic influence over capital
Ch. 3: Nancy MacLean explains Democracy in Chains Part 1 - @RalphNader Radio Hour - Air Date 6-8-18
Nancy MacLean discusses her book “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America,” which delves into the destructive “libertarian” ideology the Koch brothers fund to keep the minority in power.
Ch. 4: Are the Libertarians Winning? - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date 8-2-18
Is the Libertarian plan coming into reality thanks to Ronald Reagan?
Ch. 5: Nancy MacLean explains Democracy in Chains Part 2 - @RalphNader Radio Hour - Air Date 6-8-18
Nancy MacLean discusses her book “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America,” which delves into the destructive “libertarian” ideology the Koch brothers fund to keep the minority in power.
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Ch. 7: Final comments on how no one knows what “litmus test” even means
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, so huge thanks to |
| 0:06.8 | everyone who contributes on Patreon to support the show. |
| 0:10.0 | And now welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:14.6 | about the movement behind the anti-government pro-wealthy campaign to remake America that |
| 0:20.8 | dates back much farther than the Koch brothers. |
| 0:24.1 | Clips today come from In Deep with Angie Coyro. |
| 0:27.1 | This is Hell, the Ralph Nader Radio Hour and the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:37.4 | Let's talk about how this influence was mapped out and how it grew. |
| 0:42.3 | If you can take us through the growth of First of Think tanks, and then the chairs and |
| 0:47.9 | the grants to schools, the universities, the generosity most recently to the NAACP or |
| 0:55.0 | the Black universities. |
| 0:56.2 | Let's talk about how that was grown. |
| 0:58.4 | OK, one of the things that interested me was that as recently as 1980, the Kochs were |
| 1:06.6 | considered so far out on the fringe of American politics that William F. Buckley described |
| 1:12.1 | their kind of politics as anarcho-totalitarianism. |
| 1:16.3 | The father of the modern conservative movement just casting them aside as kind of almost |
| 1:21.2 | cooks. |
| 1:22.2 | In 1980, Charles Koch got his younger brother, David, to run on the libertarian ticket as |
| 1:29.2 | vice president against Ronald Reagan who was running for president in 1980 because the |
| 1:34.4 | Kochs thought Reagan was too liberal. |
| 1:37.6 | They thought he was a sell-out and they had a more right-wing vision. |
| 1:41.4 | They got nowhere. |
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