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On Thursday night, the president of the Heritage Foundation — the MAGA right’s leading think tank — welcomed an open Nazi into his political coalition. You might think I am exaggerating. I assure you I am not. The Nazi in question here, podcaster Nick Fuentes, has described Adolf Hitler as “really fucking cool” and said “perfidious Jews” must “be given the death penalty” after “we take power.” And on Thursday, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts released a video defending this person’s inclusion in polite-right politics: describing Fuentes not as a hate-monger to be banished from the decent right, but as a coalition member whose view of Jews-as-evil-traitors should be politely debated.

    • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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      they’re not a think tank like fish tank, where they have a bunch of beautiful flashy ideas that people want to see, and more like a war tank, where they shoot their ideas at (what they view as) hostile populations

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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      sure they can. that’s the thing - all the thinking stays in the tank. never leaves.