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Over the past decade, the left has built a shadow infrastructure that was originally designed to counter the right’s think tanks that have been around for the last thirty years. This infrastructure has evolved into a well-funded, well-coordinated behemoth that now pounces on dissenters using tech, the courts and the media as powerful weapons in America’s political war. 

The left has been so successful in this endeavor, that most on the right are now scared that anything they say or do in the political realm can readily be publicized and demagogued as extremist, racist, sexist or anti-working-class/women/elderly. This comprehensive slash-and-burn approach has won the left important elections, killed pro-market legislation/ballot initiatives and defied the rule of law time and time again. In response to this mounting force that is glaringly eating their lunch, organizations of the right hold vapid Ronald Reagan 100th birthday celebrations, cling to talk rad! io and pump out white papers that no one reads.

So why haven’t conservatives created a similar aggressive structure as the left? The answer is simple: The cozy conservative establishment.

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