Former Trump cybersecurity official says GOP leaders have 'lost control' of voter base: 'This is a d
Source: The Hill
death spiral'
Chris Krebs, the first director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who was fired by former President Trump for refuting stolen election claims, said on Sunday that leaders of the Republican Party have "lost control" of the party's voter base.
While appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation," host Margaret Brennan asked Krebs whether he believes Trump is attempting to undermined future elections, noting that the former president said during a recent rally that he is seeking to completely overhaul the U.S. election system.
"Without question. It's happening at four different levels, both state legislatures and state elected officials, some of the folks running for secretary of state in Arizona and Georgia. But we're also seeing [it] in the U.S. Congress," said Krebs.
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Many years ago, I tried to find who owned a local news channel, if it was a reliable source of news. I got so bogged down in the tangles of ownership, I gave up. I am an ATT customer for phone service and nothing else. There weren't options when we hired them, but there are options now.
Remember the movie The President's Analyst? James Coburn. Who ended up being the real enemy was an eye opener. (I don't want to give it away if you haven't seen it, but want to. But, you know 
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movement conservatism is an inside term describing conservatism in the United States and New Right. According to George H. Nash (2009) the movement comprises a coalition of five distinct impulses. From the mid-1930s to the 1960s, libertarians, traditionalists, and anti-communists made up this coalition, with the goal of fighting the liberals' New Deal. In the 1970s, two more impulses were added with the addition of neoconservatives and the religious right.
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Author and magazine editor William F. Buckley Jr. was one of the founding members of the movement. His 1951 book God and Man at Yale argued against Keynesian economics, progressive taxation and the welfare state and gave him a national audience. In 1955, he founded National Review, which provided a platform for arguing the movement conservative viewpoint. His emphasis was on an anti-Communist foreign policy and a pro-business, anti-union domestic policy. However, in its early days the magazine also included sentiments of white supremacy. In the August 24, 1957 issue, Buckley's editorial "Why the South Must Prevail" spoke out explicitly in favor of segregation in the South. It argued that "the central question that emerges... is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas where it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes – the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race."
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Business base
Movement conservatives embraced an anti-regulation and anti-union message as part of their appeal to business interests, with whom they had common ground in terms of tax policy.[19] For example, in 1958 Barry Goldwater referred to influential union leader Walter Reuther as a "more dangerous menace than the Sputnik or anything Soviet Russia might do to America." While unions had a strong presence in major northern manufacturing industries, many southern and western states had significantly less union presence and many business leaders wanted them to remain that way.
Institutional infrastructure
In the late 1960s and 1970s, movement conservatives persuaded wealthy individuals and businesses to establish a conservative intellectual and political infrastructure. This includes think tanks that resemble academic institutions but publish studies supporting conservative and libertarian arguments. The American Enterprise Institute was founded in 1943, but was expanded dramatically with new funding in 1971. The Heritage Foundation was created in 1973 and the Cato Institute was founded in 1974.
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from some in our kids' circles, mainly concertgoers but a couple musicians. A harkening back to its white roots perhaps and the dark reaches of some of its nastier subgenres? (Not that I have any more exposure to those than reading and hearing about them. )
"Politics for them has all of the nuance of being a fan of a band." Very descriptive and sounds very believable.
