Having read some books recently, I offer an observation on one.
I refer to page 262 of the 2002 edition of “The Bush Dyslexicon” (with Post 9/11 updates) by Mark Crispin Miller:
“Although it has its partial precedents in U.S. history, the Rehnquist putsch was something new. First of all, it was effected by a GOP that is not only dominated by the super-rich (who also own much of the Democratic party) but managed by a host of vengeful ultrarightists whose alliance is peculiar to this time and place: Nixon men still seething over Watergate; military men still smoldering over Vietnam; Southerners still livid over the desegregation of schools, the end of lynch law, the extension of the franchise, and the burning of Atlanta; Christian fundamentalists still steaming over rock and roll, the Scopes trial, and modernity in general; Catholics fuming over Roe v. Wade.
The whole enterprise is funded by the corporate network of big oil and petrochemicals, “defense,” tobacco, pharmaceuticals, insurance, pesticides and automotives, among other industries, their top brass and top shareholders all still smarting at the heavy hand of “regulation” – as if it were a lot of that in the United States. Each of those angry factions is forced forward by a toxic memory or illusion of defeat…"
FWIW, we have identified our adversaries, how do we go up and defeat them?
Anyone who has not read this book, I highly recommend that you do so.