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I had heard about dark money groups recently, especially when it came to Amy Coney Barretts Supreme Court nomination and swearing in. So when I saw this book suggested, I wanted to find out more about dark money groups.
Now, I am hesitant to believe everything this book says because I don't want it to be another sort of QAnon thing where the people I'm supposed to only talk about are the Koch brothers and how evil they are, which is why as why I listened (I listened to this book instead of reading it, and I think its good audiobook material) I also wrote down the names and the looked up things. I still have a lot to research, however, I do appreciate how the author cited all her sources as the book went along, as any journalist should do.
A lot of it made sense for why certain people believe certain things nowadays, such as "taxation is theft", the libertarian movement, the villainization of socialism, and the fight against capitalism. For me, I didn't pay much attention to it until recently, when it seemed like to be the only thing that people could talk about and so subsequently, I had to find out more about it.
It's interesting to read this in 2021, since this book was written in 2016, right before when I feel like the "radical" right really started, but I guess it is about the rise of it. It discusses several key politicians that became even more prominent in recent years, like Mark Meadows, Mike Pompeo, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and some others. Funnily enough, it only mentioned Trump in a passing comment at the very end, only in that he tweeted something and that was it.
Since a lot of dark money is hidden and secretive, it would be nice to see if the author continued to do her research through these past four years and see what the dark money groups have done recently.
I would recommend this book to anybody who wants to know more about politics.
Now, I am hesitant to believe everything this book says because I don't want it to be another sort of QAnon thing where the people I'm supposed to only talk about are the Koch brothers and how evil they are, which is why as why I listened (I listened to this book instead of reading it, and I think its good audiobook material) I also wrote down the names and the looked up things. I still have a lot to research, however, I do appreciate how the author cited all her sources as the book went along, as any journalist should do.
A lot of it made sense for why certain people believe certain things nowadays, such as "taxation is theft", the libertarian movement, the villainization of socialism, and the fight against capitalism. For me, I didn't pay much attention to it until recently, when it seemed like to be the only thing that people could talk about and so subsequently, I had to find out more about it.
It's interesting to read this in 2021, since this book was written in 2016, right before when I feel like the "radical" right really started, but I guess it is about the rise of it. It discusses several key politicians that became even more prominent in recent years, like Mark Meadows, Mike Pompeo, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and some others. Funnily enough, it only mentioned Trump in a passing comment at the very end, only in that he tweeted something and that was it.
Since a lot of dark money is hidden and secretive, it would be nice to see if the author continued to do her research through these past four years and see what the dark money groups have done recently.
I would recommend this book to anybody who wants to know more about politics.