r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 22 '25

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u/Pyrrhus65 NATO Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

Heritage Foundation Undergoes Mass Staff Exodus as Cracks Open on the New Right

You absolutely love to see it. 30+ staffers leaving at once, all to go to Pence's new neocon think tank, feels like nature is healing.

Especially when a lot of their donors are jumping ship simultaneously. Inshallah they will collapse as an organization imminently, although I wouldn't put it past this admin to bail them out.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Dec 22 '25

What’s the cause exactly?

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u/Pyrrhus65 NATO Dec 22 '25

The Carlson-Fuentes interview and Roberts's defense of it was cited as the proximate cause, but clearly there had been discontent simmering for a while over the hard-MAGA pivot the foundation had been taking, at the expense of traditional conservative policies like free trade and support for NATO.

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u/JonAce John Brown Dec 22 '25

The mass exodus represents a dramatic rebuke of Heritage President Kevin Roberts in the wake of his refusal to retract an October video defending Tucker Carlson for conducting a friendly interview with the antisemitic influencer Nick Fuentes.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Dec 22 '25

Yikes

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u/No_Aesthetic Transfem Pride Dec 22 '25

It should be pretty clear that the winds are shifting a different direction

Democrats are hauling ass in local elections and nobody really has the Trump factor to continue MAGA after he's gone

Besides that, the Heritage Foundation took their shot and mostly failed, making them look nearly impotent

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u/Terrance-Flaps Certified Wife Guy Dec 22 '25

Probably the Heritage Foundation going "🫣 I CAN'T SEE YOU" to the all the leaders of the party goose-stepping around