Top Heritage Officials Flee to Mike Pence's Nonprofit as Think Tank Fractures

[Zorro]

Source: Wall Street Journal

Former Vice President Mike Pence’s political group is poaching top officials from the conservative Heritage Foundation amid growing ideological fights within the conservative movement and backlash at the think tank.

Pence’s Washington-based group, started in 2021 and called Advancing American Freedom, is slated to hire about 15 of Heritage’s employees including several of its prominent leaders, the group’s officials said.

In an interview, Pence told the Journal he had long admired the Heritage Foundation but sees the group now “abandoning its principles.” He said the foundation had “fallen” because it had embraced elements of isolationism, stopped backing Ukraine in the war with Russia, supported some tariffs and backed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, among other things.

“Why these people are coming our way is that Heritage and some other voices and commentators have embraced big-government populism and have been willing to tolerate antisemitism,” Pence said.

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[SSJVegeta]

1. ...

This could get interesting.

[FredGarvin]

2. cool

Pence is a lesser of the two evils

[ananda]

3. He's sure bad enough though.

Misogynistic to the core.

[littlemissmartypants]

7. He's hiring from the evil stockpile though. 🤷‍♀️

[BOSSHOG]

4. "Advancing American Freedom"

Regardless of the name of the organization, if it is conservative in nature it will be impossible for them to Advance Americas Freedom. Conservatives are incapable of such advancement. And pray tell what makes a conservative “prominent?”

[rampartd]

8. "freedom, in the slogans of the strong means unfettered liberty to exploit the weak." will durant

[BComplex]

5. The Heritage Foundation AND the Federalist Society need to be deemed terrorist

organizations. Both have tried to destroy democracy, both have stacked the supreme court with those who will destroy democracy, and they have openly supported those policies that have turned the whole free world against the United States.

BOTH of them need to be declared terrorist organizations. Gawd knows they've terrorized me!

[rampartd]

9. both are funded by koch

as are many other

[Martin68]

6. LOL. So much schadenfreude, so little time.

[MLWR]

10. If that Heritage Society thing goes up in smoke or is blown to smithereens,

no one will miss it and no one will be happier than I.

[SWBTATTReg]

11. Good! Serves these so-called know-it-alls exactly what they deserve. They claim to know all, and are the cream of

America's conservation movement/the upper crust of the repugs, and now that they seem to have it all, it all crumbles down into nothing. Just like their so-called dominance of the legislative houses, the US Supreme Court, and the WH. .

As far as I'm concerned, these people are bigoted, are extremely opinionated, look down on their fellow Americans unless they have at least $1million in capital.

I wouldn't want to touch any of these people w/ a 10-foot pole.

[BaronChocula]

12. Project 2025 has two daddies n/t

[mdbl]

13. And this is a good thing?

What's the difference where they rape and pillage our democracy?

[travelingthrulife]

14. Heritage Foundation should be declared a terrorist organization.

[msongs]

15. new toilet same turds. nt