Category Archives: Conservatives

NYT: In Multilevel Marketing, Sleight of Hand Is Simply the Rule of Doing Business

The New York Times reports on this new book, Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America: Bridget Read’s “Little Bosses Everywhere” exposes the deceptions of direct-selling companies that make their profit not off customers but off their own … Continue reading

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Why have so many conservatives been debanked?

Grok says: The question of why many conservatives claim to have been debanked—meaning their bank accounts were closed or services denied—doesn’t have a single, clear-cut answer backed by comprehensive data. It’s a messy issue, with allegations flying from conservative circles, … Continue reading

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‘The Long Con: Mail-Order Conservatism’

I asked Grok about this November 2012 Rick Pearlstein essay and how well it holds up today: Rick Perlstein’s essay “The Long Con,” published in The Baffler in November 2012, dives into the world of conservative direct-mail campaigns, multilevel marketing … Continue reading

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‘Imposing a status penalty on members helps keep conservative organizations conservative’

Aaron Renn writes: The more liberal churches such as the mainline denominations have been bleeding people for decades. They are often boring and with an attendee base that skews older. More conservative evangelical churches are much younger, more vibrant, have … Continue reading

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The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

Matthew Continetti writes in this 2022 book: * Isolationists paid no price for opposing intervention before Pearl Harbor. One scholar identified 115 isolationist candidates headed into the 1942 midterm elections; only 5 lost. By the last year of the war, … Continue reading

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