To counter the flack, NEA leaders have turned almost exclusively to funding warm and fuzzy, middlebrow community projects. Other writers and artists have complained that as a result, many of the NEA's strongest supporters in communities around the country are establishment Republicans. The patrons who benefit the most are generally GOP voters. Meanwhile, national Republican leaders continue to make the NEA their favorite whipping boy. Arts supporters are being played for chumps.
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