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Javon Price 🇺🇸
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Critiquing operators is fair. The question is whether that critique is being used to dismiss the underlying problem.
The aging pipeline and the left’s success with young voters are both real problems for the GOP moving forward. Pointing to Heritage or Neuhaus doesn’t just make those problems disappear nor does it prove that every new effort is just another “sinecure.”
The old corporatist status quo and the assumption that trickle-down plus neocon foreign policy will eventually win Gen Z back have already FAILED. Engaging where young conservatives actually are, and building capacity to do it, is an attempt to win them back.
If the work is ineffective, it will lose support — but just writing it off in advance is defending an arrangement that has already lost Gen Z.
The aging pipeline and the left’s success with young voters are both real problems for the GOP moving forward. Pointing to Heritage or Neuhaus doesn’t just make those problems disappear nor does it prove that every new effort is just another “sinecure.”
The old corporatist status quo and the assumption that trickle-down plus neocon foreign policy will eventually win Gen Z back have already FAILED. Engaging where young conservatives actually are, and building capacity to do it, is an attempt to win them back.
If the work is ineffective, it will lose support — but just writing it off in advance is defending an arrangement that has already lost Gen Z.
The operators and direction are the entire point of the think tank industrial complex. Not liking them and critiquing them is the entire point in the competition for scarce resources. Only Oren Cass (who knows nothing about economics) believes the government can statistically will outcomes by diktat in contravention of economic forces and realities. Because resources are not unlimited those with bad ideas, practices, characters, or any mix therein should be critiqued liberally. Those with good ones should be extolled and win in the competition for funding. Rehashing the same tired and failed attempts at intra-right paradigm renovation and renewal so that a half dozen more jokers who have done nothing to add value (see Heritage and Neuhaus for the real value based outcome assessment- a clearly negative one is perceived by all those not paid by that machinery) can obtain sinecures is worthy of calling out for the sham it is. The fact that they’ve found funders is telling on how clueless the donor class is regarding efficacy.View quoted post on X
The “too many groups doing the same thing” argument is just a defense for fewer people trying to solve a REAL problem. Heritage’s own credibility issues don’t magically make the aging GOP pipeline or the socialist left’s success with young voters just go away.
If the work is a sinecure racket, the market will punish it so. But just dismissing the effort outright because you don’t like the operators or the direction is just status-quo conservatism with extra steps.
If the work is a sinecure racket, the market will punish it so. But just dismissing the effort outright because you don’t like the operators or the direction is just status-quo conservatism with extra steps.
Two dozen groups doing the same thing, some of which were solid stalwart groups who blew out their own credibility by leaning into the same failed political effort (aka: the Sisyphean task of pushing JD up a hill)- I’m looking at you @Heritage.View quoted post on X
Misallocation of resources so that failed wannabe junior political operatives who all live and work walking distance from Union Station can secure sinecures for the last 18-24 months of this failed attempt at making conservatism anew in a socialist and statist framework needs to be called out for the joke that it is. This is what makes a marketplace for ideas and labor.
The ‘JD Vance is unelectable’ line from Reaganites and neocons is getting really old. These are the same people who insisted Trump was unelectable.
Instead of projecting that opinion onto a group trying to build the next generation of America First leaders, why not actually engage the merits of what they’re doing?
Instead of projecting that opinion onto a group trying to build the next generation of America First leaders, why not actually engage the merits of what they’re doing?
What message? It’s pabulum. With one purpose- to separate donors (who still haven’t gotten the message that Hillbilly Eyeliner™️ is unelectable) from their cash.View quoted post on X
You’ve entirely missed the plot. Many of my Gen Z peers sat out & felt ignored by a GOP that looks more like a retirement home than a party promising to represent the American people.
We should be glad @AmAscent_ is promising to engage us & develop the next generation
We should be glad @AmAscent_ is promising to engage us & develop the next generation
TL;DR - they’re postlibs that want to double down on what triggered the crushing defeat in the midterms 🤦♂️View quoted post on X
