Culture Wars/Current Controversies

“The Tea-Party Veteran Plotting a Right-Wing Reboot of the Country”

By on • ( Leave a comment )
Embedded deep in the Constitution is a sort of cheat code. Way past the stuff you’re familiar with is Article V, and inside that is a way to create amendments without going through Congress first. It’s simple, really: Just get two-thirds of the states to call for a convention to propose changes. The last time it happened, though, the U.S. threw out its old constitution (the Articles of Confederation) and replaced it with the current one. That’s the ultimate danger posed by a small, influential group of conservative activists pushing for another convention to, in their words, “reverse 115 years of progressivism.” Today, Casey Quackenbush reports that the man leading the charge is Mark Meckler, a former Herbalife salesman turned tea-partyer. Now he’s back for a second act, supported by the same figures who funded the right-wing takeover of the courts and the death of Roe. They’ve made an unlikely enemy though: fellow conservatives.

— Justin Miller, deputy editor, Intelligencer

The Constitutional Kamikaze Tea-party veteran Mark Meckler and his “grassroots army” plot a right-wing reboot of the country.

Photo: LM Otero/AP
Read the full story
Enjoying One Great Story?
Subscribe now for unlimited access to everything New York.

More From Today
Convincing workers to return to the office is largely a matter of how easy the commute is, reports Curbed’s Kim Velsey — not bonus incentives like rock-climbing walls or rooftop bars. 
READ MORE »
“It just was this blip on my résumé for a very long time.” Vulture’s Roxana Hadadi assembles an oral history of Clone High, Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s vexed animation experiment, and its unlikely return 20 years later.
READ MORE »
The Department of Justice gave Trump a chance to get away with willfully retaining classified documents for political reasons, writes Eric Levitz on Intelligencer, but the ex-president refused to take it.
READ MORE »
Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. Sign up to get it every Thursday.
Get The Newsletter

Categories: Culture Wars/Current Controversies, Electoralism/Democratism, Left and Right

Leave a Reply