In 1971, lawyer and future Supreme Court justice Lewis Powell wrote the blueprint for where we are today!

Sources:

The Hidden History of American Oligarchy by Thom Hartmann

Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43307910?read-now=1&seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43881576?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/

The Memo: https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/1/