Surprisingly, Heritage's "backwardness" compared to original Reaganism is probably better for the anti-imperialist movement world-wide ---
note the bolded sentences On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM John Reimann via groups.io <1999wildcat= [email protected]> wrote: > *There has been much publicity about the harsh debates at the Turning > Point conference. There are other divisions on the far right also. Here, > the WSJ editorial board weighs in, criticizing the Heritage foundation for > adopting Trump's populism.* Full editorial: > The debate over the direction of the post-Trump right is underway, and one > of the first casualties is the Heritage Foundation. On Monday some of its > most important conservative scholars and their policy departments said they > are leaving Heritage to join Mike Pence’s policy shop. > Some 15 or more Heritage employees, including the leaders of three > prominent policy departments, are jumping to the Advancing American Freedom > foundation that the former Vice President established in 2021. The > defectors include the leaders of Heritage’s most important policy shops: > The Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, the Center for > Data Analysis, and the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies. > The move by John Malcolm and his colleagues at the Meese Center is > especially notable. We’re told it is endorsed by Mr. Meese, the Reagan-era > Attorney General who is now 94 years old and has been a fixture at > Heritage. The Roe Institute is the think tank’s free-market shop—or it was > before Heritage embraced Trumpian industrial policy. One data project > stifled at Heritage is to map the district-by-district impact of the Trump > tariffs. > “They called us first,” says Mr. Pence about the defectors. “They see us > as being a consistent, reliable home for Reagan conservatism.” Or maybe > simply conservatism, which Heritage was founded to promote and did for > decades. But that changed with the arrival of Kevin Roberts as president, > who tried to play the game of populist politics rather than promote the > think tank’s traditional principles. > Heritage once supported free trade; now it is protectionist. It once > supported a robust American foreign policy; Heritage purged its defense > hawks two years ago. Heritage was a supporter of the originalist judicial > revolution and the rule of law; now it defends Mr. Trump’s expansion of > executive power whether or not it has a constitutional basis. > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39821): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39821 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116916038/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
