In mid-March, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis described the Ukraine war as a "territorial dispute" that was not of vital strategic interest to the United States, in a written reply to a questionnaire from Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

Senior Heritage officials had advocated for months in conversations with DeSantis’ team that he oppose policies that could move the U.S. toward direct confrontation with Russia, the people said.

While officials at Heritage have been in contact with almost every 2024 Republican presidential campaign, including that of former President Donald Trump, the think tank’s proximity to DeSantis is unique, eight people involved in the discussions said.

  • treefrog@lemm.ee
    3·
    10 months ago

    Well they do think a lot about how to destroy democracy and cement the power of oligarchs.

    They don’t use well reasoned arguments to justify what they’re doing but don’t assume they’re dummies.

    Heritage helped climate change denial a lot iirc.

    • MotorheadKusanagi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      The presence of some intelligence is not sufficiently persuasive for changing terminology when the point is to insult them. Duhhhh.