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16 See Virginia Postrel, ”Populist Industrial Policy,” Reason, January 1994
17 See, for exa ”socialisanizations in 1949 and quoted by John H Bunzel in The American Small Business to an item dated November 1, 2010, found on Pat Meehan's website: -into-election-day-pat--economy This is actually incorrect; the stis
See Robb Mandelbaum, ”Whom Does the NFIB Represent (Besides Its Members)?,” a contribution to the New York Tiust 26, 2009 Read it at bossblogsnytimescom/2009/08/26/whom-does-the-nfib-represent-besides-its-members/ This is an old story in small-business politics Richard Lesher's 1996 account of srich Revolution, Meltdown on Main Street (New York: Dutton, 1996), claims that the famous freshman class of 1994 ”[are] all over the lot on volatile social issues such as abortion,” but that they speak with one voice ”in their outspoken criticis to Richard Lesher's 1996 book, Meltdown on Main Street, which supplies a seely endless tattoo of such tales
20 Read the interview at alternetorg/story/148941/?page=entire
21 See Jonathan J Bean, ”Shaed,'” Independent Review 7, no 1 (Suer essay, ”'Burn, Baby, Burn': Small Business in the Urban Riots of the 1960s,” Independent Review 5, no 2 (Fall 2000)
22 Richard A Viguerie, ”Blooe over Favors to Wall Street Aristocracy,” an essay posted on Conservative HQ on August 24, 2011 Read it at conservativehqcoe-over-favors-wall-street-aristocracy 23 NRA was Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration of 193335, which wrote ”codes” for various industries in cooperation with the big players in each OPA was the Office of Price Ad World War II OPM was the Office of Production Management in that same period WPB was the War Production Board, which coordinated industry Bunzel, The Ainal
24 Bunzel notes that one of the ”standard works on small businessis dedicated simply to 'The American Way of Life'” (ibid, p 20)
25 This line appears near the beginning of Paul Ryan's essay ”Doith Big Business,” Forbes, Deceht Mills, White Collar: The American Middle Classes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1953), pp 35, 49, 52, 53, 34
27 Banking deregulation: see ”Banking Deregulation Helps Small-Business Owners Stabilize Their Incoazine issued by the Saint Louis Fed, in April of 2007, just a month after the first shock of the financial crisis NAFTA: see the 1993 Heritage Foundation report on NAFTA, Why the Governors Support the NAFTA (and Washi+ngton Doesn't), available at heritageorg/research/reports/1993/06/bg946nbsp-why-the-governors-support-the-nafta
28 dick Armey, for example, stated this unfortunate principle back in 2008 when Mike Huckabee was riding high in Republican primaries ”One of his [ie, Huckabee's] favorite lines is that he represents the interests of 'Main Street, not Wall Street,'” Armey wrote on the FreedomWorks website ”But this assunain at the expense of the other-never mind that the jobs and livelihoods of America's workers and ser econo/news/huckabees-counterproductive-sweet-talk
29 Phil Gra,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, Septee, which took place on August 12, 2011, must be seen to be believed One place to watch it is on YouTube: http//youtubecom/watch?v=jAWvVTMz5o0&feature=player_een, ”GOP Freshton Post, March 20, 2011
32 Ryan, ”Doith Big Business”
33 Dan Eggen and T W Farnae,” Washi+ngton Post, January 22, 2011
34 The first quotation comes from Amy Ridenour, president of the National Center for Public Policy Research; it appeared in a blog entry dated October 29, 2010 The second one is by Tom Borelli, director of the NCPPR's Free Enterprise Project The ”opportunistic parasite” phrase first appeared in a press release dated July 28, 2010 (nationalcenterorg/PR-GE_Jet_072810hters talked up the idea of a national Tea Party strike; CNN's ”political ticker” ran a report on the strike on January 4, 2010 The particular enthusiast I aed on the subject on January 5, 2010 See whenfallsthecoliseumcom/2010/01/05/the-tea-partys-national-day-of-strike/
Chapter 7 Miuerrilla fando Crew, chapters 3 and 6 Weyrich: John S Saloma III, Ominous Politics: The New Conservative Labyrinth (New York: Hill and wang, 1984), p 49
2 For more on this, see my article ”The Confessions of Glenn Beck,” Harper's, March 2011
3 Another exae that Barack Obama desired to ”funda of 2011, Beck had decided to make that phrase his own; ”fundamental transformation” was now ”required,” he said-provided it followed Beck's own instructions See Beck's TV prograrich were related to listeners of his radio show on May 17, 2011, according to the transcript on glennbeckcom
4 David Kahane (Michael A Walsh), Rules for Radical Conservatives: Beating the Left at Its Own Game to Take Back America (New York: Ballantine, 2010), pp 155, 159
5 Ibid, pp 180, 217, 226, 160
6 Of course, it was no such thing According to political scientist David Caist Robert Putnahly partisan Republicans before the Tea Party conquered the headlines in 2009 See Ca the Tea Party,” New York Tiust 16, 2011
7 See, for exas/Examiner-Opinion-Zone/matthew-vadum-The-Lefts-Blueprint-for-perpetual-power-94527604html
8 See Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine (New York: Metropolitan, 2007), pp 67
9 Glenn Beck, The Overton Window, p 147
10 Ibid, pp 74, 276, 286, 29697, and again on 3034
11 FEMA's plans also would have outlawed strikes See Jack Anderson's column on the subject, Septean Advisers Ran 'Secret' Govern to the historian David Caute, the act included a ency, invasion or insurrection to detain without trial anyone who had been a member of the Communist Party since January 1, 1949” Caute, The Great Fear (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978), p 39 Harry Truman vetoed the McCarran bill, but it was passed anyway; most of it was later struck down by the Supreme Court
13 Charly Gullett, Official Tea Party Handbook: A Tactical Playbook for Tea Party Patriots (Prescott, AZ: Warfield Press, 2009), pp 3940 It is also worth recalling that in 2004, future Tea Party darling Michelle Malkin wrote a book about the roundup of japanese A World War II that was entitled In Defense of Intern” in World War II and the War on Terror
14 Michael Grahanery 2010), pp 56
15 Matthew Continetti's ”Paranoid Style in Liberal Politics” appeared in the Weekly Standard for April 4, 2011 The cover of theburned at the stake Like Joan of Arc, I guess
16 David Linery, 2010), pp 210, 213, 231, 219, 221, 220, 233
17 ”Beat the list: Kate Zernike, Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America (New York: Times Books, 2010), pp 47, 3839, 46 Armey and Kibbe, Give Us Liberty, pp 97, 167, 174 The book on nonviolent protest that inspired FreedomWorks is A Force More Powerful, by Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall Zernike tells us how it influenced Freedo Mad See also this April 2009 essay by Freedon director Brendan Steinhauser: freedoanizers-now
18 Zernike, Boiling Mad, p 39
Chapter 8 Say, Don't You Re frequency in the Beck oeuvre In addition to the political uses I describe here (for an exaazine for April 2010), he wrote a book of teenage spiritual awakening, The Christmas Sweater, in which he uses the faonist'sthrough a swirling stor behind an awful monochrome cornfield for a beautiful ”Technicolor” landscape The story ends with the teenager waking up fro that it was all a dream Glenn Beck, The Christmas Sweater (New York: Threshold Editions, 2008)