⁍ Nancy MacLean is the author of ‘Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America’
MacLean identifies a Nobel Prize-winning economist named James McGill Buchanan as the originator of this plot.

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⁍ For nearly the entire 20th century through his death in 2013, Buchanan’s libertarian free-market, anti-government sentiment fueled nearly every far right-wing movement in the western world.

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⁍ MacLean urges her listeners to escape the two-party framework when discussing Buchanan’s conspiracy to take over American politics.

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– If you’re a fan of conspiracy theories on the internet, David Goldstein of Pitchfork Economics has some news for you: “It is not over the top to say that the world we’re living in today, politically and economically, is the consequence of a multi-decade plot against American democracy.” He’s talking about the far-right conspiracy led by Nobel Prize-winning economist James McGill Buchanan, and it’s “well-documented, painstaking, and it has been wildly successful,” writes Jason Linkins at Salon. In Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, author Nancy MacLean details Buchanan’s “libertarian free-market, anti-government sentiment” that fueled “nearly every far right-wing movement in the western world, from the Koch Brothers’ prominence in national politics, to Governor Scott Walker’s radical anti-union legislative push in Wisconsin, to the rise of the Tea Party, to the far-right Chilean constitution that enabled the autocratic regime of Augusto Pinochet.” Buchanan and his followers “recognize that they are a permanent minority, that nobody wants the programs they are trying to impose,” says MacLean, and they’ve worked “to attack your right to vote—