Billmon does it again.

In a very short post, Billmon quotes from Kevin Phillips new book and compares it to what was written in the past that said much the same thing.

You can order "American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century." by clicking through the link on the right side of this web magazing.

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From Kevin Phillips in The Washington Post

Now that the GOP has been transformed by the rise of the South, the trauma of terrorism and George W. Bush's conviction that God wanted him to be president, a deeper conclusion can be drawn: The Republican Party has become the first religious party in U.S. history.