As Jemar Tisby reminds us today, "The far-right is organized, well-funded, and determined. We need to know what we're facing." He focuses on the lavishly-funded Claremont Institute, citing Katherine Stewart's research showinng that "the folks with the most extreme and backward ideas about humanity and government are not that far away from being installed in powerful political positions."

#ClaremontInstitute #FarRight #authoritarianism #fascism #Republicans

https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/trumps-allies-are-forming-a-government

John Eastman. LOL.

#JohnEastman #DisbarJohnEastman #GOPSedition #Georgia #ClaremontInstitute #GOP

US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network | #ClaremontInstitute | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/22/charles-haywood-claremont-institute-sacr-far-right

Take his fucking passport!
#JohnEastman #GOPTraitors #ClaremontInstitute

Eastman agrees to $100K bond in Georgia election case https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4162818-eastman-agrees-to-100k-bond-in-georgia-election-case/

@cdarwin The #ClaremontInstitute is a dangerous think tank that gives intellectual cover to fascist ideology (I've been reading the mail they send out)

Katherine Stewart's answer to the question of what happened to Claremont Institute — "The saga of the Claremont Institute in the Trump years is readily told as one of moral collapse." All that pretend civility of its origins flew out the window the moment their man Trump "descended that golden escalator with a mouthful of hateful rhetoric." What we are seeing now is the ugly face unmasked, the face that was always there.

#ClaremontInstitute #Republicans #Eastman #Trump #democracy
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Laura Field asks what the hell has happened to the Claremont Institute, that right-wing think tank that used to pretend it was defending civility, civilization, against barbarians, emulating prudent and civil George Washingon.

As Daniel W. Drezner says, is is now “the poster child for the devolution of conservative thought.”

~ Katherine Stewart

#ClaremontInstitute #Republicans #Eastman #Trump #democracy
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https://newrepublic.com/article/174656/claremont-institute-think-tank-trump

John Eastman gave Trump his plan for overturning a free and fair election. Trump was onboard; #MikePence considered it, and did not bother to tell anyone about it. They are ALL seditionists. #JohnEastman #TrumpCoup #GOPTraitors #FederalistSociety #ClaremontInstitute #ChapmanUniversity #FAFO #GOP

John Eastman lost his job, will likely be disbarred, and, he's going to prison! #JohnEastman #TrumpCoup #GOPTraitors #FederalistSociety #ClaremontInstitute #ChapmanUniversity

Trump's "coup memo" lawyer may face disbarment — but that's the least of John Eastman's problems https://www.salon.com/2023/06/24/coup-memo-lawyer-may-face-disbarment--but-thats-the-least-of-john-eastmans-problems/

The Claremont Institute's leaders helped engineer Donald Trump’s efforts to stay in office after his 2020 loss. They're now mostly siding with Gov. Ron DeSantis.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wz9b/claremont-institute-desantis
#News #DonaldTrump #RonDeSantis #claremontinstitute #2024election #Politics

https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/silicon-valley-bank-donated-zero?r=2nggq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
The Claremont Institute spreads disinformation and misinformation to further its MAGA agenda.
#claremontinstitute #foxnewscorp #svg #propaganda

It looks like much of the politicization of the new Cochrane report comes from "City-Journal"(footnote 1), which is the mass-media arm of the Manhattan Institute. However, the author of the Cochrane report seems to be fully supportive of this aggressive politicizing of his work (2).

I haven't given much attention to the Manhattan Institute before, so I wanted to look into them. A quick look at the CityJournal Twitter feed showed them to be strident partisans. The City Journal essay (1) is nothing more than factionalist self-congratulation (i.e. not reporting, not even a coherent argument). The Manhattan Institute itself is clearly meant as a conservative propaganda machine, though they frequently take the stance of "we are just seeking the truth".

The Manhattan Institute is the type of right-wing propaganda that appeals to intellectuals who may be turned off by the crudeness of Fox News. They 'support' their assertions with mountains of (cherry picked) data. Some people think it's just a giant trolling operation aimed at centrist and left-leaning intellectuals -- wasting their time responding to the massive piles of jibberish, out of respect for their conservative colleagues who think this stuff is important.

The propagandistic mission of the Manhattan Institute is on full display in their survey report about "Critical Social Justice" in schools (3). Leaving aside the scientific problems with the analysis, it's pretty clear that their goal is to figure out how to promote conservative ideas in public schools and raise the next generation of Republican voters. Yet through this, they give lip service to the idea that they are trying to prevent indoctrination in the schools. As if the way you prevent indoctrination is to purge opposing ideas. The seem to have objection to the capitalist framing that is pervasive throughout state-run schools.

Finally, I'll note that the MI's 'about' page highlights an endorsement from the Claremont Institute, placing MI squarely in the same network as the CI (4). They don't seem bothered by the CI's firm support for John Eastman (5), who is a Senior Fellow at the CI and publicly argues for establishing tyranny in the USA (via revoking citizenship for the children of immigrants like Kamala Harris (6), and advising Trump to try to organize a coup while Eastman provided legal propaganda to justify it (7)).

1.https://www.city-journal.org/new-cochrane-study-on-masks-and-covid
2. https://maryannedemasi.substack.com/p/exclusive-lead-author-of-new-cochrane
3. https://www.manhattan-institute.org/school-choice-not-enough-impact-of-critical-social-justice-ideology-in-american-education
4. https://www.manhattan-institute.org/about
5. https://www.claremont.org/scholar-bio/john-c-eastman/
6. https://www.newsweek.com/some-questions-kamala-harris-about-eligibility-opinion-1524483
7. https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/22/politics/trump-pence-election-memo-fact-check/index.html

#ManhattanInstitute #propaganda #conservative #RightWing #education #COVID #masking #Cochrane #ClaremontInstitute #JohnEastman #antifa #USA #GOP #Trump

The Claremont institute is really pushing open fascism hard. This is unobscured and overt fascism Ellemer is describing. The think tank fascism connection is one that must be openly explored. #Research #farright #extremism #fascism #claremontinstitute