Post B0a0fZDZ9l9WHOoIMK by Thad@brontosin.space
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(DIR) Post #B0ZydGcH94sI6J8x9s by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-11-24T18:47:17Z
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#GiftArticleThe #Conservative Movement’s #Intellectual Collapse#Trump is both a product & a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right.#idiocracy #USpol https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trump-heritage-foundation-carlson-fuentes/685011/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxfF0CAm3AeROGaKOXp6rHD8
(DIR) Post #B0ZyiswW4lqCPrI21Q by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-11-24T18:48:19Z
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The #HeritageFoundation, which has stood for decades as the intellectual crown jewel of the conservative movement, has been convulsed in an ugly public spat over the organization’s approach to #antisemitism. Employees & visiting scholars are resigning from & revolting against the think tank over its defense of the fmr FoxNews host #TuckerCarlson’s interview with #NickFuentes, a #WhiteSupremacist & #antisemite who has gained prominence in #MAGA circles.#idiocracy #USpol #Trump #Republicans #GOP
(DIR) Post #B0ZylCPWfL0vNExiam by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-11-24T18:48:43Z
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The conflict has exposed the degree to which previously forbidden bigotries have penetrated the heart of the #Trump-era #Republican Party. It has also revealed a somewhat different, yet related pathology: the #BrainDeath of the #conservative movement.#idiocracy #USpol
(DIR) Post #B0Zz7NGsy06TQcUjWS by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-11-24T18:52:44Z
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…This controversy has shoved the #HeritageFoundation into the spotlight, but it is hardly unique in its #MAGA-fied descent. Its travails reflect the debased state of #conservative institutions, the #Republican Party’s degeneration into a #corrupt personality cult, & the collapse of #intellectual standards. This collapse is a profound problem—one that #Trump both exploited in his rise to power & exacerbated with his control over the #GOP.#idiocracy #USpol
(DIR) Post #B0ZzDtKkflFIbbPWdc by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-11-24T18:53:55Z
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The debacle at the #HeritageFoundation illustrates the impossibility of abiding by the long-standing #intellectual values of open #debate & #truth-seeking while retaining any influence in a party led by Donald Trump.#idiocracy #USpol #Trump #Republicans #GOP
(DIR) Post #B0a0MDVpdGkDSY7wEC by EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social
2025-11-24T19:06:33Z
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@Nonilex aka "The Whitewash Foundation"
(DIR) Post #B0a0djARC2ugYgTBei by jztusk@mastodon.social
2025-11-24T19:09:45Z
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@Nonilex The article describes Brett Stephens as a "sensible, conservative voice on a liberal editorial page". I think I will continue to ignore Jonathan Chait's writings.
(DIR) Post #B0a0fZDZ9l9WHOoIMK by Thad@brontosin.space
2025-11-24T19:10:05Z
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@Nonilex Chait's got a point that things have changed, but it's not that these bigotries were previously forbidden, it's that mainstream conservatives used to couch them in dogwhistles instead of stating them bluntly. The GOP's transformation into the party of bigotry and anti-intellectualism was well underway when the Heritage Foundation was founded in Nixon's second term; Chait acknowledges Ailes's role but doesn't make connections to Ailes's work for Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 41.
(DIR) Post #B0a14DhsGtJ6nsk4jw by knownasrose@mstdn.social
2025-11-24T19:14:32Z
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@Nonilex "It now operates as a kind of Trumpian messaging organ, bending its positions to comport with whatever the president says." Much like the supremes.
(DIR) Post #B0a1oDjEWR0EBzJQoa by SueDiOh@mastodon.social
2025-11-24T19:22:50Z
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@Nonilex Mmmmmm....byeeeeeeee!
(DIR) Post #B0a86wmMMcZgqq5USe by WnknBlnkn_n_Nod@mastodon.social
2025-11-24T20:33:27Z
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@Nonilex The SCOTUS six are equally debased and degraded.