RIP to the #Heritage #Foundation, which functionally died this week,
as its most prominent staffers made a beeline for the exit.

The Suspect: President Trump and his posse of online shitposters.

The weapon: Antisemitism.

The room: Phoenix Convention Center.

Having offered up their not-inconsiderable reputations and intellectual firepower,
these once-respected thinkers realized too late that they were never steering the ship.

The goal was always a personalist regime that wrecked the economy for the benefit of a few oligarchs.

#Antisemitism is at the center of the Republican project.

From decrying “globalists” and #George #Soros, to embracing the “real” Jews in Israel,
the GOP is inextricably entwined with #Christian #nationalism.

In polite company, the party manages to keep this antisemitism as subtext.

They openly attack other minorities, particularly trans people and Muslims;

But Jew-hatred is expressed as rage at “ #elites” or ancient blood libel repackaged for the modern era, such as Pizzagate and Qanon.

“Trolling the libs” necessitates saying the unsayable.
And Trump, who won by embracing the most online people on earth,
is constantly playing footsie with the fringe figures who endorse him.

That’s how he wound up hosting #Kanye #West and #Nick #Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago in 2022,
both avowed antisemites and #Holocaust #deniers.

But bringing trolls inside the tent means the GOP can’t plausibly deny that they’re central to the project.

Republicans can’t very well maintain a veneer of separation from bomb throwers like #Alex #Jones, #Candace #Owens, and #Laura #Loomer
when they’re being boosted by the president himself.

And so the “normie” Gippers steadfastly assure themselves that they are the real GOP — the signal, not the noise.

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/heritage-foundation-antisemitism-kevin-roberts?triedRedirect=true

RIP to the #Heritage #Foundation, which functionally died this week,
as its most prominent staffers made a beeline for the exit.

The Suspect: President Trump and his posse of online shitposters.

The weapon: Antisemitism.

The room: Phoenix Convention Center.

Having offered up their not-inconsiderable reputations and intellectual firepower,
these once-respected thinkers realized too late that they were never steering the ship.

The goal was always a personalist regime that wrecked the economy for the benefit of a few oligarchs.

#Antisemitism is at the center of the Republican project.

From decrying “globalists” and #George #Soros, to embracing the “real” Jews in Israel,
the GOP is inextricably entwined with #Christian #nationalism.

In polite company, the party manages to keep this antisemitism as subtext.

They openly attack other minorities, particularly trans people and Muslims;

But Jew-hatred is expressed as rage at “ #elites” or ancient blood libel repackaged for the modern era, such as Pizzagate and Qanon.

“Trolling the libs” necessitates saying the unsayable.
And Trump, who won by embracing the most online people on earth,
is constantly playing footsie with the fringe figures who endorse him.

That’s how he wound up hosting #Kanye #West and #Nick #Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago in 2022,
both avowed antisemites and #Holocaust #deniers.

But bringing trolls inside the tent means the GOP can’t plausibly deny that they’re central to the project.

Republicans can’t very well maintain a veneer of separation from bomb throwers like #Alex #Jones, #Candace #Owens, and #Laura #Loomer
when they’re being boosted by the president himself.

And so the “normie” Gippers steadfastly assure themselves that they are the real GOP — the signal, not the noise.

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/heritage-foundation-antisemitism-kevin-roberts?triedRedirect=true

J.D. Vance spoke Sunday at Turning Point USA’s annual #AmericaFest conference,
where Erika #Kirk, widow of the group’s slain founder, endorsed Vance for president in 2028.

👉Vance demonized “the left,”
👉promoted Christian nationalism and right-wing populist conspiracy theories,
and, unlike other speakers,
👉refused to criticize far-right and antisemitic elements of the conservative movement like fascist personality Nick Fuentes. 

Other conference speakers were willing to challenge the movement’s bigots and extremists.
Podcaster Ben #Shapiro took on Tucker #Carlson for having provided Nick #Fuentes with an overly friendly platform from which to spread his poison.
(Carlson, also invited to speak, mocked Shapiro’s concerns.)
Former presidential candidate Vivek #Ramaswamy challenged Fuentes's bigotry along with racially coded ideas like “Heritage Americans” that have taken root in the MAGA movement.

But Vance, who has his eye on 2028, was apparently not willing to risk alienating anyone on the right,
-- demonstrating the concept of #NETTR
—“no enemies to the right”
—that has been at the center of the ongoing turmoil over Heritage Foundation President
Kevin #Roberts defense of Carlson’s promotion of Fuentes.

“President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless self-defeating purity tests,” Vance said from the stage

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/jd-vance-delivers-demagoguery-christian-nationalism-tpusa-fest-refuses-criticize-far

J.D. Vance spoke Sunday at Turning Point USA’s annual #AmericaFest conference,
where Erika #Kirk, widow of the group’s slain founder, endorsed Vance for president in 2028.

👉Vance demonized “the left,”
👉promoted Christian nationalism and right-wing populist conspiracy theories,
and, unlike other speakers,
👉refused to criticize far-right and antisemitic elements of the conservative movement like fascist personality Nick Fuentes. 

Other conference speakers were willing to challenge the movement’s bigots and extremists.
Podcaster Ben #Shapiro took on Tucker #Carlson for having provided Nick #Fuentes with an overly friendly platform from which to spread his poison.
(Carlson, also invited to speak, mocked Shapiro’s concerns.)
Former presidential candidate Vivek #Ramaswamy challenged Fuentes's bigotry along with racially coded ideas like “Heritage Americans” that have taken root in the MAGA movement.

But Vance, who has his eye on 2028, was apparently not willing to risk alienating anyone on the right,
-- demonstrating the concept of #NETTR
—“no enemies to the right”
—that has been at the center of the ongoing turmoil over Heritage Foundation President
Kevin #Roberts defense of Carlson’s promotion of Fuentes.

“President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless self-defeating purity tests,” Vance said from the stage

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/jd-vance-delivers-demagoguery-christian-nationalism-tpusa-fest-refuses-criticize-far