Why has so much of the American conservative movement embraced the story that the principles of equality and the pursuit of a more just society are the greatest threats to Western civilization today?

Who or what is responsible for giving these paranoid ideas an intellectual veneer?

The 🔸Claremont Institute🔸 gets you much of the way to an answer.

Founded in 1979 in the city of Claremont, California (but not associated in an official way with any of the five colleges there), the Claremont Institute provided enthusiastic support for Donald Trump in 2016.

Individuals associated with Claremont now fund and help run the 🔸National Conservativism🔸 gatherings; Claremont Institute chairman and funder 🔹Thomas D. Klingenstein🔹also funds the 🔺Edmund Burke Foundation🔺, which has held those National Conservatism conferences across the globe.

Claremont is deeply involved in DeSantis’s effort to remake Florida’s state universities in the model of 🔸Hillsdale College🔸— a private, right-wing, conservative Christian academy in Michigan whose president, 🔹Larry Arnn🔹, happens to be one of the institute’s founders and former presidents.

Claremont honored DeSantis at an annual gala with its 2021 “Statesmanship Award,” and the governor returned the favor by organizing a discussion with a “brain trust” that included figures associated with the Claremont Institute.

If either #Trump or #DeSantis becomes president in 2024, Claremont and its associates are likely to be integral to the “brain trust” of the new administration.
Indeed, some of them are certain to become appointees in the administrative state that they wish (or so they say) to destroy.
#ClaremontInstitute #LarryArnn #Klingenstein #EdmundBurkeFoundation
https://newrepublic.com/article/174656/claremont-institute-think-tank-trump

https://newrepublic.com/article/174656/claremont-institute-think-tank-trump

Ironically, the folks pushing the "rescue-America-from-the-woke" narrative don’t look much like the hardworking “real” Americans they purport to speak for.

Educated, urbane, politely attired —they look a bit more like the villains of the tale than the people who are supposed to be rising up against the regime.

Yet, under Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, this conviction has become something close to the official ideology of the third most populous state in the nation.

Donald Trump too has shifted his rhetoric to claim ownership of what is, in essence, an ultra-MAGA narrative.

👉 Why has so much of the American conservative movement embraced the story that the principles of equality and the pursuit of a more just society are the greatest threats to Western civilization today?

👉 Who or what is responsible for giving these paranoid ideas an intellectual veneer?

The 🔸Claremont Institute🔸 gets you much of the way to an answer.

Founded in 1979 in the city of Claremont, California (but not associated in an official way with any of the five colleges there), the Claremont Institute provided enthusiastic support for Donald Trump in 2016.

Individuals associated with Claremont now fund and help run the 🔸National Conservativism🔸 gatherings; Claremont Institute chairman and funder 🔹Thomas D. Klingenstein🔹also funds the 🔺Edmund Burke Foundation🔺, which has held those National Conservatism conferences across the globe.

Claremont is deeply involved in DeSantis’s effort to remake Florida’s state universities in the model of 🔸Hillsdale College🔸— a private, right-wing, conservative Christian academy in Michigan whose president, 🔹Larry Arnn🔹, happens to be one of the institute’s founders and former presidents.

Claremont honored DeSantis at an annual gala with its 2021 “Statesmanship Award,” and the governor returned the favor by organizing a discussion with a “brain trust” that included figures associated with the Claremont Institute.

If either #Trump or #DeSantis becomes president in 2024, Claremont and its associates are likely to be integral to the “brain trust” of the new administration.

Indeed, some of them are certain to become appointees in the administrative state that they wish (or so they say) to destroy.
#ClaremontInstitute #LarryArnn #Klingenstein #EdmundBurkeFoundation
https://newrepublic.com/article/174656/claremont-institute-think-tank-trump