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Blueprint for a progressive revolution. Lessons from the far right.

Recently, I mentioned that I'd be sharing more specifics on how to

reform the Democratic Party and seize control of our country back from the racist, misogynist,

magas. This is the first article along those lines. Progressives shouldn't just be fighting the GOP.

We should also be learning from them. No, we shouldn't be learning from their bizarreo economics. We shouldn't be discovering their selfish morality, misogyny, or racism, or selling us out to the world's richest man. But there is a vital lesson progressives must learn, which is how the far right took control of the Republican Party

over a decade ago and forced the entire conservative establishment to lurch so far to the right

that they've even dumped people like Liz Cheney and George W. Bush. If progressives hoped to have

any shot at influencing today's Democratic Party and kicking out the corporate sellout Democrats and

replacing them with real-deal progressives, then we need to get to work right away to do exactly

what the Tea Party did a decade and a half ago to take power. And it starts in our own

backyards. Let me introduce you to the now-defunct Concord Project, a right-wing organization that a decade ago was in charge of helping the Tea Party take over the GOP.

The Concord Project expanded their get-out-the-vote strategy beyond just traditional phone banking, canvassing and putting up vote-Republican signs.

Instead, they decided to infiltrate local politics by encouraging

tea-partiers and conservatives more generally to become precinct committee members. Here's their

pitch and their own words from one of their Obama-era YouTube training videos. Quote,

What's the most powerful political office in the world? It's not the president of the United

States. It's precinct committee man, end quote. So why is a precinct committee man or a person so

important? Quote, first, because precinct committeemen and only precinct committee men get to

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