Vast right-wing conspiracy plots a ’30 front war’ against America
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"This is — the great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president." – Hillary Clinton, Matt Lauer interview on The Today Show, January 27, 1998
Hillary Clinton was right. There really was (and is) a vast right-wing conspiracy of think tanks, non-profits, right-wing media outlets and pundits funded by a few dozen conservative billionaires first suggested in a memo dated August 23, 1971 by Lewis Powell, then a corporate lawyer and member of the boards of 11 corporations, who went on to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. The Powell Memo (or the Powell Manifesto): Text and Analysis.
And of course, there is Roger Ailes, a media consultant to Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign that pursued the Southern strategy
of appealing to racism against African-Americans and white grievance to
create a racially polarized electorate.The 1970 plot by Ailes and other
Nixon aides for "A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News" was the
beginning of FAUX News. Roger Ailes' Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News – Gawker.
David Corn at Mother Jones has a lengthy exposé on the latest from the "vast right-wing conspiracy." Inside Groundswell: Read the Memos of the New Right-Wing Strategy Group Planning a "30 Front War":
Believing they are losing the messaging war with progressives, a group
of prominent conservatives in Washington—including the wife of Supreme
Court Justice Clarence Thomas and journalists from Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner—has
been meeting privately since early this year to concoct talking points,
coordinate messaging, and hatch plans for "a 30 front war seeking to
fundamentally transform the nation," according to documents obtained by Mother Jones.