LilMikeSF<p>J.D.Vance himself has admitted he is “plugged into a lot of weird, right-wing subcultures” and one of his faves is the obscure <a href="https://c.im/tags/ClaremontInstitute" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClaremontInstitute</span></a> .</p><p> Spawned in Southern California out of the teachings of an academia entrenched <a href="https://c.im/tags/BarryGoldwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BarryGoldwater</span></a> speech writer named <a href="https://c.im/tags/HenryJaffa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HenryJaffa</span></a> , since his death, it has found new life embracing 21st century figures like <a href="https://c.im/tags/CharlieKirk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CharlieKirk</span></a> , <a href="https://c.im/tags/RonDeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RonDeSantis</span></a> , <a href="https://c.im/tags/JohnEastman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JohnEastman</span></a> and actively seeks out extremist <a href="https://c.im/tags/RWNJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RWNJ</span></a> sheriffs for intensive &quot;fellowships&quot;. </p><p>What <a href="https://c.im/tags/Politico" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Politico</span></a> terms &quot;the intellectual nerve center of the Trumpist right &quot; it&#39;s <a href="https://c.im/tags/thinktank" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>thinktank</span></a> was one of seven main influences recently highlighted as shaping recent <a href="https://c.im/tags/Catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Catholic</span></a> convert <a href="https://c.im/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JDVance</span></a> and his <a href="https://c.im/tags/weird" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>weird</span></a> worldviews. Vance has eagerly embraced a host of <a href="https://c.im/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FarRight</span></a> milieu members including members of secret societies, maverick publishers, and acolytes of advocates to &quot;prioritize re-Christianizing America&quot;. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Claremont" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Claremont</span></a> Institute has rebranded itself from its right wing roots in <a href="https://c.im/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>academia</span></a> to a more fearsome forefront of racially divisive anti-Democratic alt right think tanks and what one prominent former <a href="https://c.im/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GOP</span></a> campaign manager called the &quot;West Point of American fascism&quot;.</p><p> Nowadays Claremont seeks out <a href="https://c.im/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> savvy and influential leaders, such as Vance, DeSantis &amp; Josh Hawley who are white and wryly and openly contemptuous of the left, most minorities and even <a href="https://c.im/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>democracy</span></a> itself. Eagerly embracing divisions and propelling <a href="https://c.im/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MAGA</span></a> Xtian supremacist ideologies, the place that brought you <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pizzagate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pizzagate</span></a> is far from honest <a href="https://c.im/tags/AbeLincoln" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AbeLincoln</span></a> or other flag bearers of Claremont&#39;s <a href="https://c.im/tags/conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>conservatism</span></a> hailed at the orgs founding.</p><p>Nowadays, largely estranged from the CA based institution it was founded at, the founder of the Claremont Institute&#39;s archives are actually held at Michigan&#39;s rural <a href="https://c.im/tags/HillsdaleCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HillsdaleCollege</span></a>—a private, <a href="https://c.im/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>conservative</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChristianAcademy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChristianAcademy</span></a> headed by one of the institute’s 70&#39;s era original members.</p><p><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/18/jd-vance-world-view-sources-00168984" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.com/news/magazine/202</span><span class="invisible">4/07/18/jd-vance-world-view-sources-00168984</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://12ft.io/https://newrepublic.com/article/174656/claremont-institute-think-tank-trump" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">12ft.io/https://newrepublic.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/174656/claremont-institute-think-tank-trump</span></a></p>