Why examine Dark Money?
(last updated: April 3, 2025)
I am writing this blog to help spread the the message of the books Dark Money by Jane Mayer how US politics has been subverted by a small group of radical right billionaires. These conservative extremist families and associated individuals have taken over the Republican Party and are holding it captive to do their bidding. It is, in fact, a form of stealth fascism, worse than McCarthyism at its peak in the 1950s. It is ideologically blind to reasoned political debate, immune from attack due to its stealth and hidden operations, far more financially secure than any fringe extremist group in the past, and frightening in its depth of methodical planning and precise execution to subvert our government to do its will. This subversive faction has been strategically planning to capture all three branches of the federal government -- the judicial, the legislative and the executive -- for years...and after years of failures, finally succeeding in 2024 with the second election of Trump.
The mission of this blog is now all the more urgent in light of how Trump II is unfolding.
You can read more about why I'm writing this blog on my Motivations page.
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