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To: koan who wrote (974600)	10/23/2016 10:10:47 AM
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Hillary's a political crook. And you support her. not good.

To: koan who wrote (974600)	10/23/2016 10:49:01 AM
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Josh Marshal makes some important points where he compares Putin's Russia and the American Right. talkingpointsmemo.com Back in August I wrote about just this topic (" How Russia's New Defense Doctrine Is Like Fox News"). As I argued then, there is a humorous but real parallel between Russia's response to the color revolutions and post-Soviet weakness and institution building on the American right in the late 20th century. As I argued then, movement conservatives built the Heritage Foundation as a counter to the Brookings Institution. It built Fox News as a counter to CNN and the national news networks. In each of these cases there was some truth to how conservatives perceived a playing field stacked against them. The 50s and 60s and 70s were different than the times we live in. Brookings was broadly liberal in a Cold War, establishment way. The networks too were part of a broadly cosmopolitan elite culture. That wasn't liberal in any real political sense but it also wasn't friendly to movement conservatism. Yet the new institutions movement conservatives built were in most ways cartoonish replicas of the institutions they meant to counter - essentially propaganda operations stood up against public policy and news organizations which were legitimate public policy and news organizations but nevertheless inflected against the assumptions and goals of conservatism. This lack of parity was based in part on bad faith. A lot of bad faith. But I have always thought that you can't really understand this dynamic without understanding that in addition to bad faith these institutions were built by people who didn't really understand the institutions they were opposing. Conservatives believed that Brookings and CBS news really were little more than liberal propaganda operations, tied to left-wing parties, operating on a strategy of further partisan and ideological goals. Those weren't just verbal brickbats. They really believed it at some level. So when they went to build their own versions they built to that model.