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JHB

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3. By the 90s, all the groundwork conservatives had laid in the 70s and 80s...

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Thu Feb 23, 2023, 12:34 PM

Feb 2023

...was firmly established: propagandizing think tanks, their own media system, the mainstream cowed by charges of "liberal media bias," etc. And money, never forget the money. With that foundation, they were ready to try to grab all the marbles, and that's what they've done ever since.

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