Republican Liberty Is A Nightmare
"Give me economic liberty or give me death," Patrick Henry never said at the Second Virginia Convention in 1775. However, beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing and escalating to now, and with hundreds of millions of dollars from Charles Koch, Republicans are intent on delivering economic liberty to everyone. Except that Republicans are really Libertarians who hold that the federal government should maintain civil order and provide military defense -- and nothing else. And even though everyone would have economic liberty, it would exclusively benefit the Republican's favorite minority -- rich white men -- because economic liberty, when fully implemented, would allow them to profit at will without government interference and without regulation. What follows is a summary of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America , by Nancy MacLean , a professor of history and public policy at D...