POWER OF THE ONE PERCENT

“To be on the right is to feel perpetually betrayed. At a time when the right has commanding control of radio and television talk shows, it still feels persecuted by the ‘mainstream media.’ With all the power of the one percent in control of the nation’s wealth, the right feels its influence is being undermined by the academy, where liberals lurk to brainwash conservative parents’ children . . . .” (page 4)

Wills, Garry, Book Review,”The Triumph of the Hard Right” February 11, 2016. Review of E. J. Dionne, Jr.’s Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism – from Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond, in the New York Review of Books, pp 4 and 6.