1. With the Reactionary International, lobbying $$$ plays as much a role as ideology. Arthur J. Finkelstein, Paul Manafort & Roger Stone are emblematic figures who discovered the synergy you can get from acting as a bridge between USA right & foreign autocratic counterparts
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3. An interesting precursor to the current Orbanolatry is the Pinochet cheerleading of the 1970s/1980s. One key example is William F. Buckley setting up with Nena Ossa (an agent of Chilean regime) the ostensibly private American-Chilean Council.pic.twitter.com/wGcmdwdfXq
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4. The American-Chilean Council was tight with the American right in ways that were far outside the bounds of journalistic ethics. Many National Review writers/editors took Chilean junkets & wrote celebratory accounts.pic.twitter.com/VXNHBi52WE
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5. Praising National Review writer Robert Moss, Nena Ossa said of his report from Chile: “Fortunately he seems to be enough to the Right to understand that he cannot possibly write all he sees and hears. His fight against Marxism is much more important than being a journalist.”
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6. Some more thoughts on the role of lobbying and junkets in the authoritarian right:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/funding-a-cruise-through-autocracy?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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Pls watch THE LADY & THE DALE on HBO...it will explain so much
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there is a small shared social world where lobbyist & media overlap. ftfy
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the quid pro quo's are all unspoken they're assumed no need to say it out loud
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These people are the literal architects of ‘the swamp.’
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