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In reply to the discussion: Rebekah Mercer is "one of the chief financiers of the fascist movement," says longtime GOP insider S [View all]ancianita
(35,925 posts)The Mercers are known investors in Big Divisive Lies. Brexit was their other project.
It's not just who they donate to, but the messaging demand they make of recipients, who don't back down or else the money's withdrawn.
Their most divisive messaging so far is to hold Democrats responsible for a "failure to unify."
It's a safe bet that their future messaging will be to have their trumpcult bag men blow up every little misstep & mistake, and run imperfection detection, so that they go on air to twist every Biden (administration) statement and action into failed leadership.
Because it doesn't matter if Republicans are in disarray.
What matters is the belief that right wing corporatist oligarchs are never in disarray.
They don't have to be smart, either, just invest in different take-down tactics, and like domestic terrorists, they only need one good hit to succeed. They almost did it a month ago.
Maybe some people don't think geography says much, but I do. When big donors can be facing surveillance of their communications, they return to face-to-face or proxies.
The Mercers are like Charles Koch. They don't donate with general goal instructions. As Koch has explicitly said, they give specific messaging instructions.
It's a 15 mile straight shot from the Robert Mercer home in Wellington, FL, to Mar-a-Lago.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Mar-a-Lago+Club,+1100+S+Ocean+Blvd,+Palm+Beach,+FL+33480/Wellington,+Florida/
A lot of face-to-face messaging can go on among Trump's Palm Beach oligarch supporters.
It's not just the money but the messaging that's been the Mercers' divisive goal. They were major funders of Brexit, too.
Might as well look at more maps, since larger contexts of proximity within states, imo, is also a factor in keeping communications secret.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_the_number_of_billionaires
Just a map of #1's per state (maybe I'll look up their party affiliation)
The Trump wing of donors don't want a re-forming of the Republican Party. They want corporate control through shrunk government; they don't care whether a two party system works for them or a dictatorship.
The larger Biden makes all branches of this government, and the more he funds it, the less control these corporatists have.