But back to right-wing websites.

Let's go down the greatest hits.

In 2010, former NBC contributor Tucker Carlson started The Daily Caller, a site that he hoped

would break news rather than aggregate it, and maybe even take some Republicans to task

as well.

But it ended up in practice being a blog for esoteric neo-reactionaries like Scott Greer and

Kustin Alamaru and the world's largest

repository for photos of Kate Upton.

The site tried and failed to recapture the magic of Andrew Breitbart by inventing a fake

prostitution scandal for Bob Menendez, which is really just getting greedy.

The Daily Caller is best understood as a make-work foundation for members of the Claremont Institute,

a Straussian think tank that would be one of the first to support Trump and further pushed the party

into true believers of screeching neo-reaction. As we'll discuss later, much of the modern

rights hysterical obsession with social issues comes downstream from this specific place.

And to make the continuity between the

religious right and the third generation even clearer, Lee-Fang reported that both Claremont

and the Horowitz Freedom Center received training and support from both Freedom Works

and state policy networks, a heritage foundation outgrowth that grew extensively in the 90s

through the support of Dobson's family policy

councils. But despite its journalistic intentions and esoteric columnists, its connection both to

the world of evangelicals in the Bush administration were even stronger than its affair

with the far right. Its co-founder, Neil Patel, was a policy advisor to Dick Cheney, and one of its key financiers

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