‘Elected by no one’: ‘Reaganland’ author on how the Heritage Foundation wields power
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024
- Project 2025 is the Heritage Foundation’s 9th iteration of “The Mandate for Leadership” - a detailed map of policy recommendations first provided to Ronald Reagan in 1981. While this newest edition pushes further to the right than any version that came before it, the evolution also highlights The Heritage Foundation's long-game strategy. It has been pursuing many of the same goals for decades. Members of the conservative think-tank have openly talked about the long-term plans of their movement - making it clear that they’re still thinking three, four presidential elections down the line. “In a lot of ways, Donald Trump is that strong right arm. You know, he wants to please the conservative movement. And we saw with his judicial appointees, that he was just perfectly willing to kind of pass on what the right-wing activist world, elected by no one, told him to do.”
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The plan is why their nonprofit status needs to be investigated by IRS.
The media's already investigated them. Their non-profit status needs to be revoked. And since they're anti-American they need to be disbanded in my view.
jennieridgley-fd5xr - Damned straight 🎯
It's no wonder that these wannabe "Masters Of The World" intend to wipe out the IRS, FBI, and all other possible "road blocks" to their so-called "Godly plans"!
And what is most interesting is the idea of UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES of Reagan and Heritage is the wholesale destruction of the American Nuclear Family. The Heritage Society that claims to be so PRO FAMILY, but in the final analysis, they killed the American Family with their anti labor and anti family agenda.
Ask yourselves WHO BENEFITS? In other words, follow the money, and the power.
Wow! Someone read my comments! I've been screaming this for months, sick of everyone lauding "the Reagan years". Sickening how short their memories. Thanks Velshi!
I curse that man's name every time I see unions busted, the ultra-wealthy complain but those who actually DO the work are denied decent wages.
Reagan brought in the greediest idea, "stock buybacks" so stock prices would go up, the wealthy become ultra-wealthy. 😡😤
Yes - Reagan was just a "pawn in their game." But Wall Street and the corporate class loved the guy,. Ever since, the mainstream media have tried to brainwash us into believing what a "great" president he was.
Oh no I haven't forgotten Reagan trickle on you economics
Months? No offense, I've been saying this for decades now. Regan has a whole lot to answer for.
Time for the Pendulum to swing Far to the Left for Centuries.
Now I understand how the manifesto is working so well, they've been at it for YEARS. One third of the women in this country have lost their abortion health care, and that's the tip of the iceberg. Thanks for this video!
Astras-Stargate - It's sickening 🤢
YES THIS. i keep saying this. Project 2025 didnt just start. Reagan already laid the foundation for all of this
The most important 10 minutes any American could listen to.
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Why would they accept Heritage foundation to begin with? Did Reagan know them?
@@alexisarouge They have a lot of $$$$ and power is why and yes the conservatives know them.
@@alexisarougeThe same reason the Republican Party submitted to the robber barons in 1895.
@@ShawnHartmann-ul2qk And to Trump.
As an Englishman, I had had no idea how far back this present situation went...it's literally eye opening & needs to be spread so much further.
I was in high school when this started, saw it coming. Paid attention to history. Only now is most of the country starting to see this.
@@loganskiwyse7823 My goodness. Think about what you just said. That it's taken many of us almost 45 years to see how destructive Ronald Reagan and his supporters were. We don't see very well. I was just entering my 30's and career during that time, but I figured that anyone who kicks off his Presidential campaign off in Philadelphia, MS - down the road from where the three Civil Rights workers were murdered was up to no good. The African-American community I grew up in saw right through Reagan, but much of the country, the power brokers, and especially the media loved him. Let's be honest, we continue to be willing participants in our own extinction.
@@marshcreek4355 Reagan was worst than trump. Why? Because he was the inspiration for Eddie Haskell. "Well hello Mr. and Mrs. Cleaver".
@@marshcreek4355it was the corporate masters controlling him. When he tried to stand up to them, they shot his friend, to make their point.
@@dicezart9667I watched Zappa on “Meet the Press”.
Frank was a highly intelligent individual, but like so many he became flummoxed by a wall of lies.
Thank you for covering Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation. It is an awesome playbook and one that is not going away. The majority of Americans do not want this at all. That is why is it so important that we vote blue up and down the ballot. That includes school board members. Do your research of individuals running, and make sure they are not republicans! Same with all areas of society.
Or do some searching to find the people at the top, which corporations, PACs and lobbying groups they either control or use to corrupt the system.
It IS a form of corruption.
‘It is an awesome playbook and one that is not going away’???? You might want to edit the word ‘awesome’ as it means something completely different in today’s language. Just an observation.
Perhaps "awful playbook" is closer to the mark..?
Also remember that the term "parental rights" is code for banning books and being anti-trans and anti-vaccination. Any candidate who talks about parental rights or parental choice is going to be a right-wing extremist.
susantang287 - The word awesome by definition can mean daunting. Look it up. Try not to be unkind to others. It makes you look bad.
4:55 this short history of how Project 2025 came about needs to be spread far and wide
Yes, let's start sharing these clips along with the joyful segments of the DNC and encourage everyone to take an act of Patriotism beyond party politics this time.
with the Citizens United Decision.
rf4969 - Thank you for the timing of the video. I am rewatching it and sharing it.
This info about evolution of project 2025 and Heritage Foundation needs to be shared widely please
Thank you Sen Sheldon Whitehouse for dedicating yourself to educating the public on how the Supreme Court was captured by the Heritage Foundation and its members. Your videos on You Tube are a Master Class on how to rig an entire system. Must viewing for all of us.
Well said!
Absolutely!
Senator Whitehouse's channel is undersubscribed. I would like to see it with at least 500k subscribers.
Reagan’s deregulation of the banking industry led directly to the 2008 economic collapse.
Don’t forget the Savings and Loans Crisis in the late 80s and early 90s
Reagan was a disaster as governor.
How do?
@@SamLopezIand as a President. The family covered up the fact that he was in late-stage Alzheimer’s,just like Republicans accused Kamala of doing with Joe Biden’s cognitive decline,except that in Reagan’s case, it was OK because Nancy and her astrologist were calling the shots.
Bill Clinton signed the bipartisan bill repealing the Glass Steagal Act from the 30s that enforced the separation of investment and consumer banking.
I’m not a Republican but deregulation has been a two partner dance. Corporations are the real “American People” politicians are always glazing up.
For American women, this is Handmaid's Tale
Far from it.
@@viviorkokeep telling yourself that. The rest of us aren't buying.
@@viviorko It actually isn't. Project 2025 contains a roadmap to dismantle democracy.
Project 2025 contains a clear roadmap to create a dictatorship.
Project 2025 contains a clear roadmap to dismantle democracy.
This era gave us the novel The Handmaid's Tale. Heritage is anti-American
Absolutely! And all the magas are onboard as noted with their constant Anti America statements.
She wrote that book about 40 YEARS AGO. I know because that's when I READ IT.. The MOVIE is recent
@@elainedaprano9130Anybody who's been around any fundamentalist Christian denomination could see the handmaid's tale as a wishlist for any of those groups.
@@kidcoyoteanarchyI had to read “Go tell it on the Mountain” by James Baldwin (senior) while in college. He. Rightly called it, “The church of the fire baptized”, and being raised in the south, Arkansas, in the late’50, ‘60s until my escape in ‘73, in an Assembly of God (auto correct capitalized that, I don’t) I can confirm it is pure ignorance, hatred, fear and terror. Too many of these people want to remain in the dark ages, as in the 1400s.
How is that President Reagan was given such accolades for his Tenure in office? He was the first President to leave a National Debt of 2 Trillion dollars, inspite of his administration's depletion of the Social Security Trust Fund. The Republicans have done all possible to eliminate or do away with the Social Security fund. Project 2025 has Social Security targeted, as well as Medicare and the "Popular Obama Care, also known as "The Affordable Care Act." Reagan was also the architect of the economic philosophy known as "Trickle Down Economics" tax cuts and financial Deregulation benefitted the Corporations, Businesses and the wealthy and the idea was that new business investments would eventually "Trickle Down," benefits for the Working Class Americans and the elderly, the poor, and jobs for young people. However, Republican "Trickle Down Economics," also has traditionally passed down the burden of the tax cuts shifted to the backs of American Workers which eventually never happens This "Trickle Down Economics," was also the out come of the Trump Administration and Presidency. Trump passed a unprecedented 7.5 Trillion dollar tax cut, that directly benefitted Corporations and Business. Then history repeated as the tax burden shifted again to the backs of Middle Class Americans, that tax payback does not end until 2025. Trump's 7.5 Trillion dollar tax cut also increased the National Debt by
8 Trillion dollars. Now amongst the many Autocratic proposed changes in the Project 2025, is still another tax cut proposal already alluded to by Trump, His absurd enticement is the elimination of taxes on Service, employees, such as resturant workers, delivery drivers etc. Trump touts this as if it is a real benefit.
If Trump were sincere about helping the service workers, who are predominantly young, he would raise minimum wage scale between $15 to 20.00.
The other aspect He does not mention who benefits from his new Tax cut? You can count on the fact it's going to Business Sectors and is, you guessed it, "Trickle Down Economics." That's why Project 2025, targets increasing retirement age between 67-72 years of age imagine having to work to that age, thus ineffect cutting Social Security benefits by increasing retirement age. Other more direct ways to limit Social Security the people's plan. Included is cutting Health Care benefits to Medicare and Medicaid by replacing "Obama Care," a longstanding Trump and Republican target. In Republican Red states the Project 2025 agenda is well underway as the 1st Ammendment and the U.S. Constitution are under direct attack. Tax revenue is being transferred to "Private Schools," a direct threat to the 1st and 14th Ammendments and the separation of powers found under the Articles within the Constitution. Currently removal of library books from School libraries is actively taking place. While there may be justification for retro actions found in Library access for early grades such as 1-5, the danger is who decides, what are the reasons, where does such actions stop? The answer is found in making a practice and decisions made in cooperation between the U.S. Department of Education, the States, Local School Boards and the local Parents and Teachers Associations. The Trump/Republican Party "Project 2025," has set as a priority the elimination of "The Department of Education," Why? The answer is to allow States to be autonomous over Education curriculum taught and the access to books or literature, again a decimation of the U.S. Constitution's "True Meaning and Intent," particularly the 1st Ammendment. Project 2025 a dangerous plan to weaken the U.S. Constitution even to the extent that it may no longer be the "Law of the Land," free from Government control nor intervention. When the cry that, "Our Democracy is at stake!" look no further than Project 2025! Written and endorsed by Republican ideology, endorsed andsaid by their candidate himself Trump;
"The U.S Constitution needs to be rewritten," or words to that affect. The Project 2025 and it's intent is to justify and eliminate the "Bill of Rights," "True Meaning and Intent" as written by our Fore Father's. Project 2025 replaces the great synopsis; "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, that shall not perish from the Earth." Abraham Lincoln at the "Gettysburg Address." That is the stark reality of our times; Autocratic ideological form of government with the establishment of a Dictatorial Presidency protected by the equally tyrannical False "Constitutional Interpretation," of "Immunity from any actions taken by the Office of the Presidency. This is a prescription for a Dictatorial system! Vote Blue, keep the People's Rights to run this Great Nation first and foremost!
Good post ..dont forget Fairness Doctrine ...All Ronald ...Rupert slides in ...Fox etc begins ..dont get it why so many say Ronald was fabulous...fill me in sane people ...just a thought from afar ..Fix this "merica!!!. ..Love from Canada ....i think...
@@BNevrgivup Reagan also damaged Union strength by firing air traffic controllers and appointing anti union people to the labor board.
Citizens United Decision. Move to Amend.
And don’t forget the horrific treatment of persons who had HIV/AIDS. The administration hamstrung an entire wing of science because those persons happened to LGBTQIA+ folx. It wasn’t until a RICH white woman became ill after childbirth that the tide veeerrrryyyy slowly turned. P.S. those persons were my patients. I got to experience it on the front lines! Radicalizes you in a way you never thought possible.
Propaganda
Excellent investigative reporting. Velshi is a national asset. 👍
Ali Velshi is a national treasure. And he’s Canadian. ❤️
That would make him a treasure, period.
@@kurtisengle6256 North American treasure!
It's time to dismantle or hobble The Heritage Foundation for peddling falsehood. Have them 'Prove' their findings via a real scholarship review.
It's time to investigate them as a terrorist organization and enemy of the state.
It can be done. Find the names of the most powerful, then find the corporations they're heading or own.
Uline Industries is one. Free step forward.
See who's donating large amounts to the GOP and tie those with who is part of the Heritage Foundation, their other organizations.
Follow the money 💰💰💰💰.
The answer can only come from the conservatives. From conservatives Fed up with this BS. And I think this will happen. If Trump fails in the election the Maga group will crash hard. Hopefully hard enough to give moderate conservatives a chance.
The sad thing is that most of the time the voters will only realize how bad populists are when the experience a crashed economy and political system.
Outlaw them without peer review, fact checking, but not by FOX news!
And I've been screaming about this ever since then!
Same here, and they call us "left-wing extremists" while we do our level-best to defend our Constitution, as our Constitution demands.
I remember way back, maybe before 1980 (I started college in '77 and graduated in '81) a professor assigning us to write a research paper on the emergence of PACS and Heritage Foundation in particular. That guy knew what was happening and what would result.
Of course Reagan, McConnell, Boehner and the "tea party" knew. They got the handbook from the Heritage Foundation.
Reagan implemented 60% of those ideas. He couldn't do that without the Senate and Congress.
We researched some of it for debate class around the same time. It look like many folks didn't get introduced to it until Trump, unfortunately. I don't know if media dropped the ball, or there was pressure, but it's been pretty frustrating.
@@bjdefilippo447 this is how we end up with a Supreme Court full of idealogues instead of jurists. No one paid any attention for the last 40-years to Heritage Foundation, Liberty college, etc who infiltrated the judiciary. At least with politicians you can choose your poison. Seems like with judges we end up with partisan appointments like the Supremes and Eileen Cannon at the district level.
Reagan might have been the first, but Rush Limbaugh spread the conservative philosophy through the rural areas of America. Trump merely identified the movement and took advantage of it.
coachtaewherbalife8817 - 💯
With roots further back in Father Coughlin, the John Birch Society, the McCarthy era. The Civil War & Reconstruction, as well.
So did fundie religionists.
Ronald Reagan did ruin everything.
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He did bring peace with Russia, for a while that is, and, was part of implementing the removal of the Berlin wall, opening up East Germany from communism.
Leeja Miller 🎉
Black people have been saying this since the began of Regan. We call him The Devil.
He was the devil and chump is the offspring!!
I paid $0 for tuition in California for my college education. (1978-1982) Reagan’s policies destroyed access to higher education for poor kids. If they did get loans they buried them in debt. Reagan was just an actor playing a part.
I didn’t qualify for anything so my tuition was doable. Ridiculously so. I lived at home but needed a car but worked all through college and full-time in summers. Books and a campus parking spot (and food) were my major expenses.
Reagan was a puppet for the ultra rightwing, just as Trump is today. Nothing to choose between them, Reagan just didn't shoot his mouth off in public, like Trump does.
douglasgage5138 - Exactly 💯 Reagan was an ACTOR. This still blows my mind 😡
Portions of America mistakenly adore Movie/TV "stars."
He was the ideal puppet for these Heritage Foundation ghouls
Thanks, Velshi, for taking on the difficult task of deciphering the monstrous Project 2025. I survived Nixon and Reagan and I would not go back to that time. Things are so much better now than then. Rivers don't burn, Love Canal was fixed and the regulations now prevent those things from happening again. People must stop wishing to go back to what is not the "good old days". They were not good.
This is something I have been trying to get people to realize for a very long time now. I could see it back then in the 80s and 90s when I was a kid. They have been planing what is happening now for decades. It isn't new. It won't end with trump.
Traitor trump is just a puppet.
yup. And they have been showing themselves the whole time, but they have mechanisms to obfuscate the truth via fake media companies and the Chamber of Commerce.
If anything, they've realized how much control they can have with a populist president and this is now their end game. No more piece meal for them, they want the whole shebang. Help us all.
Republicans have been planning a color revolution?
SAME here. I just kept wondering why nothing gets better for minorities. I knew they'd been plotting after kings Death. Monsters
💙VOTE USA💙VOTE HARRIS/WALZ💙VOTE BLUE FOR OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE💙
Lol yeah that’s really gonna help. You got rid of the man who passed the biggest climate built in history around the world who is going to help them with his economy by making the rich pay their fair share vote. Blue sure we will not change anything Obama isn’t he God? He lied and said he was gonna make them pay. Their fair share had 67 senators nothing changed your climate no jobs foreclosures I can speak to that banks cheating the head of the automobile flying in on your private planes. Rather people were fired. Educate yourself. You let these rich people push Joe Biden now the race look at the statement from BLM millions voted for him that’s democracy nothing else no excuses that’s democracy and you think we’re gonna change. No no we’re getting one dictator out for this one time. Mike Johnson speaker of the house is more of a threat than Trump so keep on laughing at him because it doesn’t matter, I’m being negative. It’s real education.
Lol yeah that’s really gonna help. You got rid of the man who passed the biggest climate built in history around the world who is going to help them with his economy by making the rich pay their fair share vote. Blue sure we will not change anything Obama isn’t he God? He lied and said he was gonna make them pay. Their fair share had 67 senators nothing changed your climate no jobs foreclosures I can speak to that banks cheating the head of the automobile flying in on your private planes. Rather people were fired. Educate yourself. You let these rich people push Joe Biden now the race look at the statement from BLM millions voted for him that’s democracy nothing else no excuses that’s democracy and you think we’re gonna change. No no we’re getting one dictator out for this one time. Mike Johnson speaker of the house is more of a threat than Trump so keep on laughing at him because it doesn’t matter, I’m being negative. It’s real education. 10:09
Laugh out loud is anybody watching MSNBC everybody here is telling me that they did a rerun of the DNC. They’re talking about joy still lol that one person right there down right giddy free the poor from the Chicago jails because they walk from the RNC to the DNC got thrown in jail for charges. Their lawyer doesn’t know why and they kept moving them. 10:15
I was a Republican. I voted for Ronald Reagan. I did not leave the Republican party. The Republican party left me, as they moved more to the crazy right wing. The more right wing they became, the more I found a home with the Democrats. The older I get the more left-wing I get. The Democrats aren’t left-wing enough for me. when I was working, making over 180,000 a year I realized that it was not enough for me to consider myself as a Republican . Don’t call me a Democrat. I am a socialist. But since I don’t have a choice of a socialist candidate, I’m voting Democratic.
Love your story and evolution! One of my mentors use to say that there's nothing wrong with being a conservative, "but you just can't stay there". As a long time activist (now in his late 70's) he said the best progressives he ever knew and worked with were former conservatives.
Reagan began the process which has made the GOP what it is today. A wolf in sheep's clothing. The same thing happened in the UK with Thatcher.
They had perfectly good solar panels on top of the White House under Jimmy Carter and Reagan had them removed...
We need green infrastructure because we're pumping our strategic oil reserves right now!
Republicans stayed just about where they were. Republicans didn't change. You did.
@fargosnow I’m 30 and I agree. I’ve always been a hand me down democrat. But since finding Bernie realized I should be in the Scandinavian societies.
Get rid of the Heritage Foundation and Citizens United.
And the 'Patriot Act'.
In a Republican mind, Ronald Reagan was an economic genius. He presided over two recessions. The unemployment rate peaked at 10.8% in December 1982, the highest since the Great Depression. The inflation rate peaked at 13.5%.
Thats why the GOP lost in the 1982 Midterms.
Yes! Why Republicans praise Reagan I have no idea! It is horrific
@@stop_lying_to_me I don't understand the logic of making your consumer too broke to buy your goods and services... eventually the capitalists will have no more money trickling back up.
@@daydays12Government was only the problem when Bonzo was leading it. Perhaps his primate co-star should have governed in his place.
Reagan didn’t think anything. He was told what to do , learned his lines and delivered them effectively as an actor could.
Please have this guy back on. A remarkable guest that we need to hear more from.
marshcreek4355 - I agree 💯
Why aren't they treated as domestic terrorists?
^^^^^^^^^ T H I S ! ! ! ^^^^^^^^^^
Because they are not.
@@user-zu5do6ri6rThe head of the organization said this is the 2nd American revolution.
A revolution is when you overthrow the government.
How is this any different than a terrorist's rhetoric?
*My goodness, what a terrific piece of reporting Ali. It's 9:26am on a rainy ( **_as usual_** ) English morning, and this has made my day. I shall share as widely as I possibly can... **_CHEERS!_* 👍😎🇬🇧💙☕🥃
In this case, Heritage actually means, "White Patriarchal Christian Nationalist Theocrat".
The word heritage is used quite a bit by the far right as a dog whistle.
@@phiksit Yep. Heritage and Family are the words that are typically used as cover for White Patriarchal Christian Nationalist Theocrats.
You left out rich mofos.
@@shihtzusrule9115 Part of the fine heritage of white supremacy is that the rich whites pay the poor whites 'the wages of whiteness' instead of paying them a living wage, which discourages those poor whites from uniting with other poor people of all colors, those with whom they actually share economic and social class interests. Those poor whites would get a bit of social and legal privilege, and best of all, get to feel superior to non-whites.
So you're right in that 'heritage' includes the rich mofos who are in charge, but it's also the duping of poor mofos into supporting systems and structures that exploit them economically so long as they can enjoy some privileges of whiteness. And they'll vote against government policies that would make their lives better because they don't want non-whites--whom they regard as undeserving--to benefit from those policies, too. And they've decided Trump is their racist political prophet who is finally going to put an end to the creation of a society in which white privilege no longer functions.
Thanks for keeping this in the limelight Ali. I share your segments hoping others will look at Project 2025 and realize how dangerous it is. I did not know about "The Mandate for Leadership" because I was still a kid at the time and the movement was already far along by the time I became an adult.
can we remove the non-profit status of the heritage foundation?
Keep shining the spotlight on this.
Thank you for pointing out how long the mandate for leadership has been a part of the Republican party.
It verify that what we were observing was indeed fact.
Always enjoy hearing from Perlstein. He's one the most perceptive writers on the Conservative movement, especially at explaining the big picture of what they're trying to do, and how they've been going about it.
True Fact: He's also -- believe it or not -- a big fan of Bass Fishing
I’m addicted to a bass fishing gambling game. Hope this helps
Agreed… that last sentence tho 😂
@@austinmonroe3894 Very few activities (other than guns and NASCAR) code more strongly conservative than does bass fishing. As a bass fanatic myself, imagine my delight upon discovering one of my left/liberal scholarly heroes shares my addiction. How could I resist revealing this nugget of trivia?
We need to make sure that no more candidates suggested by Heritage Foundation are elected into office. Vote 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
Or are made judges.
The first big tax cut for the wealthiest, 1981, eliminated these three programs that had made life in the U.S. so exceptional.
1. Killed the national health care system that had operated at the county level and included a hospital or clinic in every county in the nation.
2. Cut the federal tax support for the State Colleges and Universities that drastically increased tuition costs and provided a new income stream for the wealthy with the guaranteed, no bankruptcy clearance student loan program to saddle any working class student with years of debt.
3. Stopped building low income housing and low income retirement housing, and that is why we now have millions of homeless people
I went to college for zero tuition, graduated in 1982. Parking, student union fees (250), and books were all I paid. I wouldn't go to college now. College used to be a sign of the middle class.
Yes! I watched reagan double my tax rate!
@@marvinmartin4692His first term was pretty horrible. But I guess you forgot the 1982 Midterms, and him Signing the Cobra bill, Restoring those Government programs and Raising taxes on the Wealthy?
He also instated the tax on social security income and raising the retirement age.
@@plawson85771982 was his first term.
Keep putting out the information. If only people would be willing to listen.
mothersgauri4137 - I think those who need to hear this will not be on this channel nor believe it, sadly.
@@DonnaMayStanish You are probably right. Sad, but true.
There appears to be no end to apparent corrupt behaviour in America and it seems to be centred around Conservative Right-wing Republicanism??
Yes.
Of course would you expect anything different? Their job is to make sure that Corporate America completely destroys this country for profit using things like the Supreme Court and the White House.
Which is why I moved out of the US earlier this year.
Far right organizations are historically always corrupt. It stems from the fact that self-interest at the exclusion of the interests of the majority are at the core of the ideology.
It is centered around White Christian Nationalism
9 editions later, we've got Project 2025. Lucky us.
Excellent program. Great guest. Extremely important topic.
Please keep telling this important history.
In 1975, Republicans laughed at the idea that Reagan might run for president. He was, in their view, far too right wing to get elected.
By 1980, he had captured the party and pulled it far to the right. But Heritage is even further to the right than Reagan himself. So they kept pushing.
Now, we have five extremists of the radical right on our supreme court thanks to them.
It important for people to know about this shift to the right. And even more important to know that the principles and policies espoused by the far right are not based on any sound, factual foundation.
Please share these clips with friends on all social media and encourage them to take a patriotic act beyond party politics this time. Light up the world!
I love that you're pointing out
elected by no one.
Nothing makes me feel closer to my dad that’s been gone for over 15 years like hating on Reagan does. I can almost feel him in the room. His pure internal rage towards Reagan was a palpable thing. You could feel it. I wish I could properly put into words my dad’s character, but my dad was not particularly political. He wasn’t a man that was prone to anger. I cannot recall a single time my dad got mad behind the wheel of a car. It was palpable. The one and only time my father ever showed up at my school to confront a teacher, (only time he did that period, I had three older siblings) was when my 9th grade History/Social Studies teacher told an entire class of students that it would be un American if our parents didn’t vote for Reagan.
Love your Dad. Sounds like my very passionate Democrat Mother whose is no longer with us. She was onto Reagan while he was Governor of California.
@@kellidinit3725 The only good Republican is a defeated one.
Tremendous kudos to your dad. While it seemed that too many people were blind to Reagan's game, there were those like your dad who could see. I was in my early 30's when Reagan was elected and I remember everything being surreal that he had become our President. I was like, "This guy?". My African-American community and family saw right through him, and my dad easily called him a racist after Reagan kicked off his campaign in Philadelphia, MS - close to where the three Civil Rights workers were murdered. The message was clear. Today I still enjoy listening to the late great Gil Scott-Heron's take on Reagan and those times in his song B-Movie.
@@antoniahamilton3201Reagan was a Horrible Governor but he was actually a decent President. Especially in the 2nd term. And you can’t act like life was so Great during the Carter years. It wasn’t. Did you know that the cost of living was utterly lousy in the 1970s? Ever heard of “Stagflation”? It was under THREE Presidents including two Republicans.
Me, too. My Dad even stopped eating his beloved jellybeans. I’m a Californian and was a senior in high school when Reagan was elected governor. My social science teacher would not say his name, and only referred to him as Jane Wyman’s ex-husband. 😊 . I think those men in that generation felt that Reagan was a traitor to the working people of this nation.
My favorite scene from The Munsters (please stay with me) is when, after a disastrous run in his bristling-with-Universal-Horror-electrodes lab at full tilt, Granpa (Al Lewis) says : "I think I wasn't using enough electricity!" - and that for me has been the GOP since evermore at this point. The right-wing message failed? It MUST have been too diluted - instead of too deluded.
US Census Bureau on real household income by percentile shows steep rise for the top 10% starting with Reagan and every other bracket almost flatlining. Also called "Morning in America".
I used to wonder how democratic countries ended up under dictatorships, but now i can see how it happens.
They stop being democratic before the dictatorship ever starts. Dictatorship are often voted in with fraud.
As the joke goes, How does a dictator come into power? He's elected.
We are still suffering from that stupid plan.
I remember what Regan did to Ca as gov. It took Jerry Brown to get us out of the mess. Then we had another movie actor as gov (arnold schwarzenegger) and once again Jerry Brown came in and brought down the deficit and Improve Ca economy to be the 5th largest in the world. I will never vote for an GOP candidate
The trolls are out in force today. But hey, keep on commenting. It pushes the algorithm to get this out in front of more people.
Also best not to feed the trolls, helps them, just ignore them.
Vote with the party of personal responsibility, law and order, never-ending student debt, and the Citizens United Decision. A corporations is designed to protect and conceal the owners the consequence of ownership; and dark money is speech. It will be great when the government is absolutely useless and we are under full corporate control. you had your chance to have government, now it belongs to the corporations. you feed a troll.
And today, people are suggesting Reagan was NOT conservative and would be pushed out of the party. Poppycock! I’ll ask this question again…and again until I get an answer. Reagan’s first speech as the GOP nominee was given in Philadelphia, Mississippi, which is famous for one thing - the brutal murder of three civil rights workers in the 60s. What message was he sending with that decision?
I remember growing up as a teen in the 80’s in a small town and they were heavy on pro-life and religious propaganda. The Pentecostal church and others supported some of their causes allowing them to attend service etc. Now, here I am 50 and WOW!!! This truly has been DECADES of work🤯😳
Yup
So pro life is evil?
@@heartlandstudio6278
When a political party takes what is a personal belief and turns it into a political weapon to simply to gain a strangle hold on a voting block. Yes that is evil.
Machiavellian type manipulation that does not care about the people being manipulated only the end goal of controlling the monetary flow to the top 1%.
And now that political movement has found a front man that is perfectly comfortable with claiming to be Christ like all while doing the most un Christian things his entire life.
finally someone talks about the heritage foundation and the grandfather of maga, and destroyer of the country reagan.
Basically the heritage foundation is new age Jim Crow less out open segregation
@@KAMstudio1242 not really, fascism doesn’t have anything to do with further empowering redlining gerrymandering removing affirmative actions and other hard fought civil rights liberties that were mostly brought on because of Jim Crow and alot of the heritage foundation founders have ties to Jim Crow legislation from the 40s and 50s so in the 70s they made the foundation to take us back the “good ole days” ergo Jim Crow not Fascism..
@@mikes6853John Birch basically. After his party lost Big in the 1982 Midterms, Reagan moved away from the Right and moved to the Center and Left.
This, combined with other factual pieces, helps to answer so many questions in regard to outcomes. In TX, I've seen many top GOP candidates lose to first time, "corrupt" individuals spewing bizarre rhetoric. In addition, respected GOP politicians doing the same out of nowhere. I worked, along with many other respected individuals, who were ethical. I retired as they polluted the entire system here - and continuing to do so unbelievable. I knew there was dark money, so Abbott, Paxton(worked for) and all the others, may your children/grandchildren inherit the world you sold out for....only to realize they don't carry what you provided, the moment and need. At this point they will be discarded....from inside and now, the saving grace is not to rise for USA, for an individual every few years....do something. Vote always..
good one Velshi! John Birch Society, Daughters of the American Revolution (was that the organization that refused opera singer Marion Anderson Carnie Hall stage, and mrs Elenor was instrumental in her singing in front of D.C. monument instead. There are trails (entrails) of their in group existence.
Ginni Thomas users to work for the Heritage Foundaiton
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That explains a lot.
I recently came across Frank Schaeffer's videos where he talks about being the son of a famous evangelist and how his conservative values influenced this conservative religious movement and how now he feels guilty for his beliefs.
His stuff is great!
I am so glad I fell upon this reporting by Velshi. Lots of good comments and really smart people out there.
They're just still fighting FDRs new deal.
The way Roosevelt and Keynes understood it, it would be a new deal or fascism. They were probably right. We have to believe government can avoid zero-sum competition and that takes good governance. Otherwise people become susceptible to demagoguery.
The Harris admin. will enlarge on the New Deal.
@@jeannerogers7085Her father is a Keynesian economics professor and expert! It’s why she knows exactly where she’s going with her policies!
Fascinating.
So Saint Ronnie Raygun was not the benign little gnome he is portrayed to be? What a surprise!
He was a puppet
Thank you so much for covering this.❤
MSNBC, nice content
Per the Heritage Foundation's own website, trump implemented 61% of their Mandate for Leadership 2016 version during his term.
The heritage foundation has chosen every republican supreme court nominee for the last 40+ years.
Do not neglect the Federalists Society.
Frank Shaeffer is warning about this. Worth a look.
Yes indeed. I watch his videos. Wish he had a bigger audience.
Yes he was there when the foundation of the right wing evangelical movement was laid.
He has done a 180° from what his father and others preached.
Its a manifesto, not a mandate
They want it to be a mandate. Vote Blue!
Excellent point. Everyone should start calling it that!
The People should vote on every bill, every proposal.
Worst idea EVER. Study why direct democracy is such a bad idea.
No
Yes 1970s the sway towards blocking scientific progress, education and accelerating income inequality took off like a explosion.
and the wage stagnation for the poor and working class.
Step 1, cut off the money to this organization!
How you gonna stop rich people donations?
Great interview, but why is no one in the media talking about who funds Heritage??? Is everyone afraid of Charles Koch?
Conservative leaning or fascist leaning? Get rid of Heritage and the Federalist Soc. and this country would immediately improve.
Blame Ronnie Raygun!
Blame the Heritage Foundation, Blame the Federalists Society,
Blame the paid lobbiests.
The politicians are actually at the end of the line for where these ideas are born. They are simply the tool to implement others Machiavellian designs.
Yes they must be voted out but our focus once the election is done needs to be macro instead of micro.
Trump applied their Blueprint for a Budget (which included cutting funding for oversight & enforcement of many regulations, esp by EPA), which Trump used for his first "Skinny Budget" during his term in office.
Thank you.
This is the first thing we need to hit back with when maga says he isnt involved with the heritage foundation's plan. It was probably the first thing he had to agree to work on in 2015.
😮. This is disgusting, but real. Help us.
Get the word out!
I wish christians would focus on the love that they preach about in the bible rather than the hate that they feel.
Great in depth reporting!
the cool thing about Project 2025 is outlining the Trump agenda with clarity. Harris only needs to say "not what is written in the Project 2025 agenda" when asked what are her policies
It's buried somewhere in YT videos, I can't find her name, but I saw a video of a Heritage Foundation spokesperson saying that Project 2026 intends to "wipe out the 20th Century," which is also what Velshi's guest basically said is the plan. It's frightening, they're talking about "wiping out" progress made by generations of people who spent their whole lives & sacrificed personally to make life better for people.
Reagan’s California help flip the state Blue. It’s never gone back despite small Red enclaves. He brought that bad energy to Washington. The Moral Majority grew directly out of this. But…too many WWII veterans were still alive and remembered what Fascism looked like. It was a long game! But those of us who watched and knew were told we were doom peddlers. In the biggest “I told you so”…I TOLD YOU SO!
Small red enclaves? The entire central valley is red, along with most of Northern California aside from the wealthy affluent coast, like Napa, Marin, Santa Rose etc.
Almost all the entire eastern California is red. It's only the Los Angeles area San Francisco Bay area and some areas around Sacramento that are actually blue. These areas just happen to have all the political power in the state so it's essentially a single-party system.
In a Frontline Documentary, A person who worked in the White House stated that the plan to replace all federal employees with Trump loyalist was on Trump's desk and ready to rollout in his next term; however, he lost in 2020.
💗💖💓💯👏 Thank you for this helpful report.
There are so many intelligent and well informed people in these comments. Very refreshing to see
Heritage Foundation and Hillsdale College and Christian Nationalism.
Wonderful additions to the list.
Infact i think that is a story unto itself list all these organizations that at first blush seem benign to J. Q. Public.
The Republicans have been wildly successful at giving things deceptive, disingenuous names.
More Rick Perlstein please. He’s a clarion call. All they do is double down. Maybe regroup, maybe new faces, try something new, bring in people by a smattering of change. No. Tighten the screws. It’s what we do.
Fell in love with Rick Perlstein with his CSpan interview.
First I’d heard of anything like his take on things…he's a tour guide for those years. Rick’s books are phenomenal.
More please, he’s great.
Rick Perlstein's name is not mentioned in the title or description. It should be. He is a great historian. Should be easier to find w/ youtube search.
Good point.
Thank you Rick.
We're here to stop them
WOW! YOU OPENED MY EYES!
There are no Republicans left, only the heritage foundation . So remember, when you vote for the republican party your vote is for heritage foundation.
We as Catholics were told that we need conservatism, conservative judges, Heritage Foundation ideas in order to obtain the Culture of Life Preached by the Popes but we weren´t examining what the cat dragged into the house!
Start also focusing on the House and Senate.
The introduction, boiled down: We may yet get past Trump, but Trumpism will continue as long as the GOP as we know it exists. Thanks so much for having Perlstein on. He's been chronicling this for almost as long as the Government Study Program has existed
Regan was a tribute to the embalmer’s art when he was in the White House.
Absolutely Ali! Look up Lewis Powell Memorandum 1971. Mr Powell became Justice Lewis Powell. This is a century long game.
Add the Federalists to this group......perhaps partially melded.
"The worse betrayal is when you betray yourself."
~ Benedict Arnold