We thought the concept of an evil empire was a thing of fantasy, but it's been very real - just operating in stealth mode behind unexciting bureaucracy and neutral-sounding think tank proposals.
While the 1971 Powell Memo became the blueprint for the Heritage Foundation, another influential memo known as the 1980 Horowitz Report, did likewise for the Federalist Society. These were essentially a corporate declaration of war on the middle class.
Interesting. Looking it up now and found an Atlantic article from 2024:
“If you want to understand how the right captured the courts, how the conservative activist Leonard Leo became the most powerful man in the country, why the Federalist Society’s turnstile for conservative judges, lawyers, and professors came to exist, the place to start isn’t the Powell memo. It’s the Horowitz report, an almost completely unknown follow-up to Powell written by Michael J. Horowitz, a onetime liberal Democrat who turned to the other side.”
This explains a lot. If, only there was a way to reverse it, not time, all that came forward after the memo. For me, the Citizens United ruling was the worst ruling of my lifetime.
While the 1971 Powell Memo became the blueprint for the Heritage Foundation, another influential memo known as the 1980 Horowitz Report, did likewise for the Federalist Society. These were essentially a corporate declaration of war on the middle class.
Interesting. Looking it up now and found an Atlantic article from 2024:
“If you want to understand how the right captured the courts, how the conservative activist Leonard Leo became the most powerful man in the country, why the Federalist Society’s turnstile for conservative judges, lawyers, and professors came to exist, the place to start isn’t the Powell memo. It’s the Horowitz report, an almost completely unknown follow-up to Powell written by Michael J. Horowitz, a onetime liberal Democrat who turned to the other side.”
Chilling! Out of the shadows, now we see them clearly in the light of day😈
We are the evil empire.
This explains a lot. If, only there was a way to reverse it, not time, all that came forward after the memo. For me, the Citizens United ruling was the worst ruling of my lifetime.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/michael-j-horowitz-report-1980/679236/