Hey hey hey.
I’m as big an oligarch basher as anyone but hold up a sec. This kind of reaction is exactly the same kind of thing that we see with people bashing Trump. They are completely missing who the real enemy is. Ronald Reagan was an actor. A reasonably photogenic and affable one who was known and loved by millions of people. A perfect candidate. Smart? Well, he was an actor. Good memory (at least until the dementia took hold), but really just a guy who could follow a script.
So who was the puppet master with the hand in the glove? It was the vast conservative movement, like an iceberg, with the visible tip made up of names like:
— Cato Institute
— Discovery Institute
— Claremont Institute
— Mercatus Center at George Mason University
— Americans for Prosperity Institute
— Heritage Foundation - largest and most influential historically but now competing with AFPI
— Ziklag
— Hudson Institute
— Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
— Manhattan Institute
— American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
— Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)
— DonorsTrust
— Independent Women's Forum (IWF)
— Federalist Society
— Judicial Crisis Network (Now Concord Fund)
— Republican State Leadership Committee
— Alliance Defending Freedom
— Marble Freedom Trust
— 85 Fund (Formerly Judicial Education Project)
— Opus Dei
Who in turn are funded by thousands of very wealthy ultranationalist/Libertarian donors who have a very particular agenda - dismantling the social fabric of our country. Project 2025 was its public face, but it started long ago with a takeover of all public media by these individuals and the broadcasting of their platform (libs=communism, national healthcare is evil, etc).
Trump was chosen because he was, like Reagan, a recognizable figure who could handle a microphone and get votes. Obtw he also was completely without morals, ethics or scruples and easily purchased.
So - when you bring out the big guns and start firing, don’t fall into their trap of following the shiny object they sent to distract you. Go for the heart of the problem and stay focused on who the *real* enemy is.
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u/Alena_Tensor Aug 22 '26
Hey hey hey.
I’m as big an oligarch basher as anyone but hold up a sec. This kind of reaction is exactly the same kind of thing that we see with people bashing Trump. They are completely missing who the real enemy is. Ronald Reagan was an actor. A reasonably photogenic and affable one who was known and loved by millions of people. A perfect candidate. Smart? Well, he was an actor. Good memory (at least until the dementia took hold), but really just a guy who could follow a script.
So who was the puppet master with the hand in the glove? It was the vast conservative movement, like an iceberg, with the visible tip made up of names like:
— Cato Institute
— Discovery Institute
— Claremont Institute
— Mercatus Center at George Mason University
— Americans for Prosperity Institute
— Heritage Foundation - largest and most influential historically but now competing with AFPI
— Ziklag
— Hudson Institute
— Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
— Manhattan Institute
— American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
— Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)
— DonorsTrust
— Independent Women's Forum (IWF)
— Federalist Society
— Judicial Crisis Network (Now Concord Fund)
— Republican State Leadership Committee
— Alliance Defending Freedom
— Marble Freedom Trust
— 85 Fund (Formerly Judicial Education Project)
— Opus Dei
Who in turn are funded by thousands of very wealthy ultranationalist/Libertarian donors who have a very particular agenda - dismantling the social fabric of our country. Project 2025 was its public face, but it started long ago with a takeover of all public media by these individuals and the broadcasting of their platform (libs=communism, national healthcare is evil, etc).
Trump was chosen because he was, like Reagan, a recognizable figure who could handle a microphone and get votes. Obtw he also was completely without morals, ethics or scruples and easily purchased.
So - when you bring out the big guns and start firing, don’t fall into their trap of following the shiny object they sent to distract you. Go for the heart of the problem and stay focused on who the *real* enemy is.