Probing a Political Paradox: Why the Discredited Right Still Sets the Agenda and Dominates the Debate by Arianna Huffington

It’s a paradox: the political center has clearly shifted; what used to be considered “left wing” positions have now become part of the mainstream, and the views of the Right are now at odds with the majority of the American public — and with reality.

Yet, despite this seismic shift — grossly underreported by the media — the Right remains as powerful as ever when it comes to setting the national agenda and dominating the national debate.

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In the last Gilded Age by Steve Frasier 

Google “second Gilded Age” and you will get ferried to 7,000 possible sites where you can learn more about what you already instinctively know. That we are living through a gilded age has become a journalistic commonplace. The unmistakable drift of all the talk about it is a Yogi Berra-ism: it’s a matter of déjà vu all over again. But is it? Is turn-of-the-century America a replica of the world Mark Twain first christened “gilded” in his debut bestseller back in the 1870s?

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