There have always been liberal foundations funding and developing the left leaning ideology....
Ford
Rockefeller
Pew
and so on. Outspending their conservative counterparts 10 to 1 or more (Capital research center)
The current development of a broad developing, tightly woven right leaning movement is not the creation of the current administration but more a reaction to the longstanding dominance of the liberal ideology.
It seems when the right is willing to put their money where their mouth is, they are focusing on a set of core issues. Developing ideas and intellectual talent for the long haul. Creating a cohesive movement.
I notice the efforts of the left leaning machine being fractured by so many competing interests, many of them less than societally universal. Attacking individual issues piecemeal, splintering support.
It has taken more than thirty years of focused, concentrated effort to arrive at this point. I really think that the liberal establishment wrongly assumed things would always remain the same and they would hold their power without challenge....that said, once they finally overcome their denial of the situation they will finally get down to developing ideas to compete with the right wing machine. And so the pendulum swings.
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"Iron rusts with disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold water freezes. Even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind"
Leonardo Da Vinci
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