What the Hell Happened to the Claremont Institute?
California think tank now it platforms white nationalists, promotes authoritarianism
https://newrepublic.com/article/174656/claremont-institute-think-tank-trump
* Earlier in 2023 1,000 supporters of “National Conservatism” gathered in London
* speakers denounced “woke politics,” blamed immigration for rising cost of housing, said modern ills could be solved w. more religion & more (non-immigrant) babies
#ClaremontInstitute #neofascism #neoconservatism
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* break room lined w. booths f. organizations such as
Viktor Orban–affiliated Danube Institute
U.K.-based conservative think tank Bow Group
The Heritage Foundation
legal powerhouse Alliance Defending Freedom (which is headquartered in Arizona but has expanded to include offices in nearly a half-dozen European cities)
* Michael Anton (Trump admin): senior fellow, Claremont Institute
#ClaremontInstitute #HeritageFoundation #ADF #AllianceDefendingFreedom #BowGroup #DanubeInstitute
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* theocrats of religious right / anti-government extremists overlap bit but remain distinct
* Claremont Institute isn't quite either of those things, yet they’re both & more
* nihilistic yearning to destroy modernity
* indispensable part of right-wing America’s evolution toward authoritarianism
https://persagen.com >> search: "Claremont Institute"
"alliance defending freedom"
"heritage foundation"
"viktor orban"
...
#theocracy #ClaremontInstitute #neofascism #neoconservatism
