Grover Norquist delivers the GOP’s marching orders

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9. Easy; MONEY

Norquist's "ideas" - much like those of Friedman, Hayek, et al - these "supply side" ideas - are well-designed for massive transfers of wealth from the public many to the private few. The private very few. It's those very few who cut checks for the Republican party.

So Norquist walks into the local republican congressperson's office - unannounced of course, his nutsack is tanuki-sized like that - and lays down the law. "The Law" in this case is that unless they are 100% on board with grape-press economics (crush a few thousand grapes for one glass of expensive wine) their funders will no longer fund them. If these politicians start acting like politicians - that is, public servants - rather than tools in service of capital, then capital will turn on them. And they can go back to being part of hte hungry masses in no time.

Norquist himself has no magical powers. He's just the latest messenger now that Friedman's withered corpse is six feet underground (and hopefully capped with concrete)