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There's your old-fashioned, rich right-wing, and everybody supporting that gets work in their P.R. firms ("think tanks") or the media they own.

There's your new alt-right wing of bigots, and this is THEIR river of funds.

The Venn-diagram overlap between paranoid-style politics and grifting has always been plain. Steve Bannon is just an out-front, already-arrested, had-to-be-pardoned, crooked grifter. ("Crooked" grifter to distinguish from Justin's targets, who are apparently legal.)

That's the angle I wanted reported on with the Convoy, was surprised that the Feds didn't bring out the issue as justification for the account-freeze: the Convoy really looked to me like a grift. One guy with $20K in gasoline and supply expenses couldn't find anybody to bill. They quickly set up systems to get money from the Convoy, where were they on a system to dole it back out?

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