In 1956, (NINETEEN FIFTY-SIX!) Ian Fleming wrote

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40. Gah! OMG! Hair on Fire! This helps make sense of so much!

Great (albeit distressing) article! Thanks for lifting up the rock that the referred article begins to flip over to reveal what's beneath many seemingly unrelated background activities. I will see if my local library has Nancy MacLean's book:
[link:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/533763/democracy-in-chains-by-nancy-maclean/9781101980972/|

Buchanan makes Rand look like the tooth fairy and desires nothing less than the complete capitulation of the remaining democratic structures to the desires of the Virginia School, i.e. The Terribly Wealthy.

“Each person seeks mastery over a world of slaves,” he wrote in his 1975 book, The Limits of Liberty.

Not likely we'll ever see this discussed on MSNBC et al.