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3 The full quote goes as follows: ”The secular-socialist reat a threat to America as nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did” The book's subtitle identifies the ”secular-socialist rich, To Save A Obanery, 2010), pp 4, 5

4 Erickson and Uhler, Red State Uprising, 2010, p xiv

5 ”Indoctrination”: this was a favorite persecution fantasy of Septe insurrection”: a French anarchist pamphlet with this title was rescued from obscurity by Glenn Beck in 2009 ”Persecution”: I a to The Persecution of Sarah Palin by Matthew Continetti (New York: Sentinel, 2010) ”Systeainst Liberty (Washi+ngton, DC: Regnery, 2010), p 12 ”Gulag Bound”: read about it at gulagboundcolas Schoen, Mad As hell: How the Tea Party Move Our Two-Party System (New York: Harper, 2010), p 144

7 Forbes also says he is going to supply a ”Real World Lesson,” but then ioes into one of those abstract fables econoovern us that things didn't ell in communist countries Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames, How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy (New York: Crown Business, 2011), p 14

8 C Jesse Duke, Spread This Wealth (And Pass This A Word Press, 2009), pp 6970 Emphasis added

9 This is a widely shared view of the newest Right ”Consuulatory favoritism vote untold millions of ti irrational behavior, bad actors, and liar loans with equal and swift justice” Give Us Liberty, p 169, emphasis added

10 Sidney Lens, ”The Moral Roots of the New Despair,” Christian Century, February 26, 1975

11 Glenn Beck, Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop S Government (New York: Threshold Editions, 2009), pp 45 Beck's emphasis

12 ”It was one of the more extraordinary events in the annals of Aton Post, ”the co money to make the rich richer” ”The Elite Behind the Tea Party,” Washi+ngton Post, October 20, 2010

Chapter 5 Making a Business of It

1 See, for example, the op-ed Phil Kerpen published on April 13, 2009, in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

2 Mike Pompeo in a debate found on YouTube, dated September 23, 2010, and available at youtubecom/watch?v=fXucbtDUl4M&feature=related

3 Will Bunch, The Backlash: Right-wing Radicals, High-def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama (New York: Harper, 2010), p 209

4 See vhtml (accessed December 15, 2010)

5 The first item in this list is described in Alan Crawford's Thunder on the Right (New York: Pantheon, 1980); read up on the others inCre York: Metropolitan Books, 2008)

6 According to Will Bunch, Judson Phillips denounced a group of disgruntled Tea Partiers thusly: ”I want you to know that they're socialists” The Backlash, p 212

7 Chuck Norris, foreword to Mark Karis, Don't Tread on Us: Signs of a 21st Century Political Awakening (Los Angeles: WND Books, 2010), np

8 The consultancy is Russo Marsh + Rogers For el, ”GOP Operatives Crash the Tea Party,” Politico, April 4, 2010, politicocom/news/stories/0410/35785html

9 ”GOOOH stands for 'Get Out of Our House' and is pronounced like the word 'go,'” reads a paroup that I picked up at the Liberty XPO in Septe Stick” plan was also outlined in literature distributed there iCaucus has nuress, which it outlines on its website ”The Answer We've All Been Waiting for Has Arrived!” is printed on business cards distributed by a group that seems to be called the ReFounders of America! (The exclamation point is part of the name) In addition to the ”Redeclaration of Independence,” its website offers a long list of proposed amendments to the Constitution, one of which would outlaw lobbying We Read the Constitution can be found, obviously, at ereadtheconstitutionco the Town Halls-Best Practices,” ain May 2009 It is available at thinkprogressorg/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/townhallactiones Social Security Privatization,” Vancouver Coluust 13, 2010: ”The Race Is on for a Wide Open US House seat,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 24, 2010; and ”Hedrick Throws His Support to Herrera,” Vancouver Colue

1 C Jesse Duke, Spread This Wealth (And Pass This A Word Press, 2009), p 19

2 See Rolling Stone's profile of Don Blankenshi+p, ”The Dark Lord of Coal Country,” in the issue dated November 29, 2010

3 See the New York Times' news story and editorial on the subject, June 29 and 30, 2011, nytimescom/2011/07/01/opinion/01fri3html

4 ”Core coancapitolconfidentialcom/14194 ”Political entrepreneurs”: see Surface Tension: Tea Parties and the Political Establishment, a report by the Sam Adams Alliance on the Tea Party movement dated October 13, 2010 The term ”early adopters” was applied to Tea Partiers in that same firm's much-discussed ”market research report” on the ust 1, 2010 Read ”Surface Tension” at sa/media/17350/surface20tensionpdf and ”The Next Wave” at sa/media/13655/9481320sam20adams20alliance20-20next20wave20report20v420finalpdf

5 The work of ement theory is The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations (New York: Portfolio), a 2006 book by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom The list of favorite CEOs could be found here as of the summer of 2010: stlouisteapartycom/brave-ceos/

6 Don Crist: What Can I Do?: After the Tea Party (NP: np, 2009), p 145 Stephen D Hanson: Transcending Time with Thomas Jefferson: Is the Constitution Still Applicable Today? (New York: iUniverse, 2010), p 253 DeMint, Saving Freedom, pp 1517

7 On Herman Cain and Bill Clinton, see ”The Lost Chance,” Neeek, September 18, 1994 On Cain and ”the real folk,” see the Washi+ngton Times intervieith him, July 20, 2011

8 On Glenn Beck's roots, see chapter 9 of The Real Aes from the Heart and Heartland (New York: Pocket, 2005) ”Spirit of Arahts: kirkforsenatecoresscom/, accessed April 13, 2011

10 Robb Mandelbauress,” New York Tisnytiress/?scp=1&sq=sress&st=cse

11 ”The question is, 'Are we going to be living by the same rules that apply to every family, every small business and 49 states, which is, that they cannot spend more money than they have?'” said Senator John Barrasso of Wyolish/news/Obans-Debt-Bill-US-Avoids-Default-126600373html

12 Nan Hayworth: see the report dated January 28, 2011, in the Westfair Business Publications, westfaironlinecoressworams for March 5 and October 27, 2009

13 A particularly painstaking debunking of the myths of small-business job creation and innovation can be found in ”What Do Ss Paper on Econosley of the University of Chicago, dated August 2011 Another is ”Who Creates Jobs? Ser, Ron Jarmin, and Javier Miranda, a National Bureau of Econo Paper from 2010

For a decent journalistic summary of the debunk Fable,” Washi+ngton Post, July 8, 2009 According to Scott Shane, a professor of entrepreneurial studies, the true nuandists of small business would have us believe In an article he wrote for the New York Tiust 5, 2009, Shane used Sest businesses (those with over five hundred employees) created 36 percent of jobs over the period 19922008, followed by medium-size businesses (those with between fifty and five hundred employees), which created 30 percent The smallest businesses created the fewest jobs Read snytimescom/2009/08/05/are-medium-sized-businesses-the-job-creators/

14 See davidriveraorg/issuesht to the transcript of Ronald Reagan's speech on the website of the ”American Presidency Project,” presidencyucsbedu/ws/indexphp?pid=41324