Reply #68: Fascinating article on the origins of the New Right

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This is something I've been looking for -- a concise history of the rise of the New Right and the role of all those shadowy figures like Richard Mellon Scaife, who was behind the attempt to destroy Clinton and seems linked to all the dirty-tricksters in the current campaign.

http://www.audarya-fellowship.com/showflat/cat/WorldNews/47194/2/collapsed/7/o/1

The term 'New Right' was coined by Kevin Phillips in 1975 and refers to the amalgam of organisations and institutes spawned by Richard A. Viguerie, Paul Weyrich, Howard Phillips and John Terry Dolan with heavy funding from such financial magnates as Joseph Coors, Nelson Bunker Hunt and Richard Mellon Scaife. ... In 1973 Coors, with the help and advice of Paul Weyrich, a broadcast journalist by profession and not the mere 'political mechanic' he pretended to be, and Edwin Feulner, another Congressional aide, founded the Heritage Foundation.

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Perhaps the most important constituent body of the New Right network after the Heritage Foundation is the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC), also founded in 1975 by John Terry Dolan, a lawyer by profession, Charles Black and Roger Stone with the help of Richard Viguerie.

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Ronald Reagan's election as President of the US marked an important historic divide in the rise and development of the New Right and its religious component. Once inside the White House, the President, contrary to envisaged plans for its abolition, decided to retain the post of special religious advisor. In the face of firm opposition from the mainline denominations, he appointed Morton C. Blackwell, founder of the ultra-conservative Committee for Responsible Youth Politics and ex-editor of the RAVCO-owned New Right Report still with strong political and financial ties to Viguerie, to the post.