The Wrecking Crew — When Distrust of Government Becomes a Governing System
What happens when distrust of government begins shaping the institutions responsible for making government work?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation by Thomas Frank as our lens, this investigation examines the relationship between anti-government ideology, institutional capacity, privatization, lobbying, and political influence.
Frank argues that many of the scandals and failures he documents were not merely unrelated cases of greed or…
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