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79. Sean Campbell, “Black Lives Matter Secretly Bought a $6 Million House,” New York Magazine, April 4, 2022, retrieved at https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/04/black-lives-matter-6-million-dollar-house.html.
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81. Isabel Vincent, “BLM Hires Clinton Aide Who Paid for Steele Dossier to Sort Shady Finances,” New York Post, February 17, 2022, https://nypost.com/2022/02/17/blm-hires-clinton-aide-marc-elias-who-paid-for-steele-dossier/.
82. Jonathan Turley, “New Financial Controversies Rock BLM as Marc Elias Reportedly Ends ‘Key Role’ with the Group,” JonathanTurley.org, May 18, 2022, https://jonathanturley.org/2022/05/18/new-financial-controversies-rock-blm-as-marc-elias-reportedly-leaves-board/.
83. Kerr and Dunleavy, “Clintonworld Steps Away.”
Conclusion: Breaking the Spell
1. Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939–1944, ed. Gunther Stuhlmann, vol. 3, (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969), 125.
2. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The Communist Manifesto,” 1848, https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm.
3. Lisa Marshall, “Skeletal Remains Debunk Myth Surrounding 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic,” October 9, 2023, https://phys.org/news/2023-10-skeletal-debunk-myth-flu-pandemic.html.
4. Merriam-Webster, s.v. “courage,” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/courage.
5. James Bickerton, “How Bud Light Sales Are Faring Six Months since Devastating Boycott,” Newsweek, September 30, 2023, https://www.newsweek.com/how-bud-light-sales-are-faring-six-months-since-devastating-boycott-1831111.
6. Gabriel Hays, “12-Year-Old Boy Booted from Class over Gadsden Flag Patch on Backpack: ‘Origins with Slavery,’” Fox News, August 29, 2023, https://www.foxnews.com/media/12-year-old-boy-booted-class-gadsden-flag-patch-backpack-origins-slavery.
7. Yaron Steinbuch and Ronny Reyes, “Middle Schooler Allowed to Display ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ Patch after Mom Accuses School of Violating His First Amendment Rights,” New York Post, August 30, 2023, https://nypost.com/2023/08/30/mom-of-student-kicked-out-over-flag-claims-it-violated-his-first-amendment-rights/.
8. See https://www.monticello.org/.
9. Thomas Jefferson Monticello Foundation, “Firearms,” https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/firearms/.
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ABC News, 218
abnormal, normalizing, 133
activists, motive of, 17–18
Adams, Eric, 216
Alabama, 82
Altheide, David, 172–173
AMA Center for Health Equity, 95–96
American Federation of Teachers, 79
American founders, 39
American Institutes for Research (AIR), 92
American Medical Association, 95–96
American public
attack strategy on, 103–104
called “extremists”, 106–107
called “semi-fascist”, 104–107
Clinton’s attack on, 103
communist propaganda aimed at, 156–157
condemnation of, 103
defending ourselves, 229–230
distrust of media, 165
leftists belief in lying to, 180
