In a recent Canada Free Press article, I tried to outline the precise dynamic the Republican Party Establishment has created during the primary campaign, the methods it has used to manipulate voters, and the resemblance of this year’s effort to shepherd Americans in their preferred direction to similar efforts in all modern Republican primaries. The template is being played out to predictable perfection, right down to the final moments of pre-Iowa campaigning, even as we speak. The one new twist, perhaps, is the extent to which the so-called “new media,” which many conservatives hoped for years would be a counter-Establishment force, has at last begun to be co-opted into the machinery.
