former prestigious bastions of conservative thought, Claremont now spends its time kissing trump ass

[Demovictory9]

Is Trump running in 2024? The Claremont Institute hopes so

Once one of the most prestigious bastions of conservative thought, Claremont now spends its time putting lipstick on the Trumpian wildebeest.


Trumpism is, of course, less an idea or set of principles than it is a cult of personality and series of angry impulses. But even the ugliest movements have their pseudo-philosophers and their rationalizers.

And this where Claremont comes in: It is attempting to put a veneer of intellectual respectability on some of the darkest impulses of the right. It’s not at all surprising that Claremont was at the center of the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election.

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Claremont was once the center of what was known as the "West Coast Straussian" school of thought founded by scholar Harry Jaffa.

But in recent years, Claremont has moved away from its intellectual roots. Its recent list of fellows includes some serious conservative thinkers, but also Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Ben Shapiro, radio host Mark Levin, and Trumpian activists like Charlie Kirk and Mollie Hemingway.

But, as Laura K. Field noted in her comprehensive analysis of Claremont, one of the clearest indications of its evolution was its 2019 decision to name "the conspiracist and 'king of fake news' Jack Michael Posobiec III' one of its Lincoln Fellows. You might know Posobiec for his role in the horrifying Pizzagate hoax and equally gross Seth Rich conspiracy. This year, one of Claremont’s so-called Publius Fellows is a legislative assistant for conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Claremont’s drift into racism or authoritarianism has similarly not been subtle.

As Field has noted, Claremont "knowingly provided cover to, and made common cause with, an alleged white supremacist named Darren J. Beattie." Beattie is a former White House staffer who had been fired for consorting with white supremacists. As the attack on the Capitol unfolded on Jan. 6, Beattie sent out a stream of tweets directed at various African Americans — including Sen. Tim Scott, S.C., and Kay Cole James, the president of the conservative Heritage Foundation — telling them they now had to "learn their place" and 'take a knee to MAGA."


https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/trump-running-2024-claremont-institute-hopes-so-n1281683

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. The entry price to get contracts.

Learn to hold your breath and pretend taste.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. My personal theory? Reagan demonstrated conservative theory...

was just so much bullshit that this is all they have left.

[tanyev]

3. Wow, sent out tweets during the insurrection telling people they had to "learn their place"?

Hadn't heard that before. Just awful.

[Demovictory9]

4. he is still on twitter, tweeting nonsense... currently anti woman sh*T

Darren J. Beattie Globe with meridians Retweeted
Lomez
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Oct 19
An addendum to this is that these cases of mass psychogenic illness are always almost exclusively female. Which dovetails with my long held position that all of what ails us in the Current Year are female social pathologies at scale…