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The View from the Bridge
End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
[PDF file]: […] Schuster, 2018). On p. 217 Turchin summarises Carlson’s position as accusing the Democrats of • becoming a party of the rich; • of supporting immigration because immigrants vote Democrat; • of supporting overseas military adventurism; • of attacking free speech; • of not taxing the wealthy or asking why working people are dying younger. […]
A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley
[PDF file]: […] the hysteria of 1974-5 when a considerable section of the British ruling elites believed that a Labour government which had just received less than 40% of the vote in two elections was a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ […]
Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey
Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites
[PDF file]: […] that forces inside and outside the Conservative Party which were determined to get rid of me would seek to use the all-party coalition campaigning for a ‘Yes’ vote as the nucleus of a movement for a coalition of the ‘centre’.66 In 1975 Wilson’s ‘fear had become that I might be instrumental in forming a […]