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Insiders complain right-wing think tank infested by 'extremists and trolls’
Heritage Was Not Divided by Ideas. It Was Captured by a Machine.The Real StoryThe New York Times account is about the Heritage Foundation, but the deeper subject is not a think tank in distress. It is a Republican power structure deciding which version of right-wing politics gets institutional legitimacy. Heritage, once a professionalized pipeline into GOP administrations, has been shoved aside, then remade from the inside by the post-Trump right.Who Holds PowerThe relevant power is not “conservative thought” in the abstract. It is Kevin Roberts, the leadership he empowered, and the…
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