In a previous post , I quoted Rick Garnet on the conservative conspiracy : ...he can only report that they advanced their cause in those years by founding magazines and think tanks, seeking funding for both, associating with conservative forces within the Catholic Church, and forging ties between conservative Catholics and conservative Evangelicals. This is all very cunning, I expect, but I believe the customary term for such methods is "democratic politics" There is a very readable column in The Nation about Progressive Democrats trying to emulate this consarned, newfangled technique: The time had come for the donors to think differently about how to spend their money, just as conservatives had done forty years earlier when they launched a counteroffensive against liberalism and pushed the Republican Party far to the right. The meeting was led by Rob Stein, a former official in the Clinton Administration, who'd spent the last year and a half developing a PowerPoint p...