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2. This isn't as surprising to those who have been following...
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 11:44 AM
Apr 2025

...the far-right in this country since Reagan (or before). The Heritage Foundation has always been one of the most far-right of the make-work "think" tanks for otherwise unemployable Republicans, but in recent years, there has been a transformation.

In recent years, the Heritage Foundation has gone overtly fash. It's hard to believe that the "think" tank that helped create the Reagan revolution now endorses an American brand of fascism inspired by execrable regimes like Orban's Hungary.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218613365
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218613365#post12

The president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin D. Roberts, recently wrote a book, Dawn’s Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save America (complete with a picture of a burning match on the cover). Apparently his publisher got pushback on that subtitle, because it was changed to Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America before it arrived in bookstores. (The New Republic was able to obtain a pre-publication galley copy).

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219572334#post5

Oh, by the way, Kevin D. Roberts (and his buddy, Vice-President JD Vance) are big Catholic radtrad zealots. But you probably already knew that.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219688562
https://www.population-security.org/swom-97-04.htm
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219242100
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219242100#post13
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219418542

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