{"id":177158,"date":"2025-09-19T13:16:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=177158"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:16:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:16:34","slug":"how-a-beltway-brain-trust-sells-oligarchy-to-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=177158","title":{"rendered":"How a Beltway Brain Trust Sells Oligarchy to Liberals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did a debate over housing become a call to end the anti-monopoly movement? Abundance co-author Derek Thompson used slimy tactics to protect wealth and power in America. It&#8217;s worth examining how&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2025\/08\/08\/how_a_beltway_brain_trust_sells_oligarchy_to_liberals_651441.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did a debate over housing become a call to end the anti-monopoly movement? Abundance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177158-how-a-beltway-brain-trust-sells-oligarchy-to-liberals.jpeg",90,60,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177158-how-a-beltway-brain-trust-sells-oligarchy-to-liberals.jpeg",90,60,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177158-how-a-beltway-brain-trust-sells-oligarchy-to-liberals.jpeg",90,60,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177158-how-a-beltway-brain-trust-sells-oligarchy-to-liberals.jpeg",90,60,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177158-how-a-beltway-brain-trust-sells-oligarchy-to-liberals.jpeg",90,60,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177158-how-a-beltway-brain-trust-sells-oligarchy-to-liberals.jpeg",90,60,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177158-how-a-beltway-brain-trust-sells-oligarchy-to-liberals.jpeg",90,60,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177158-how-a-beltway-brain-trust-sells-oligarchy-to-liberals.jpeg",90,60,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177158-how-a-beltway-brain-trust-sells-oligarchy-to-liberals.jpeg",90,60,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177158-how-a-beltway-brain-trust-sells-oligarchy-to-liberals.jpeg",90,60,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/177159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}