Archive article: https://archive.is/SyLKE a 2019 GOP strategy meeting in the small town of Rockbridge, Ohio, attended by billionaires and media personalities including former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, hedge fund manager Rebekah Mercer, and economist Oren Cass. The attendees formed the “Rockbridge Network,” a GOP strategy network helmed by conservative venture capitalist Chris Buskirk, whose aim is to build a MAGA movement that outlasts Donald Trump by letting business leaders shape American policy.
It will be so hard to wake some of these people up enough to vote against the Confederate Party, because of all their training to balk at doing so - because, OMG, “woke”, “DEI”, “CRT” and “antifa”.
Besides all the wedge identity politics (their fixation on things that have zero impact on their quality of life, like “men in women’s bathrooms/sports” is legendary), the red-baiting bullshit runs nearly as deep. It’s just common currency among so many Republicans to just casually talk about the Democratic Party as if they really are filled with literal Communists.