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The Heritage Foundation, sometimes simply referred to as Heritage, is an influential fascist think tank based in Washington, D.C.[1] Heritage was founded in 1973 and is fundamental in forming the policy of the Republican Party.[1][2] According to its website, Heritage aims to "formulate and promote public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense."[3] The organization also includes "countering the threat of Communist China" among its policy priorities,[3][4] considering the Communist Party of China to be "the most persistent and consequential foreign threat facing the American people today."[4] An article on Heritage's website describes socialism as "a pseudo-religion grounded in pseudo-science and enforced by political tyranny."[5]
Heritage is the creator of the "Project 2025" document, which is the latest of its longstanding "Mandate for Leadership" series, a policy document which Heritage began publishing in 1981 beginning under the Ronald Reagan administration.[2]
Heritage publishes the so-called "Index of Economic Freedom" each year, measuring and ranking the "economic freedom" of the world's countries according to free market values.[1][6]
History[edit | edit source]
Heritage was founded in 1973 by Paul Weyrich and Edward Feulner, established with funding from Joseph Coors of the Coors Brewing Company, a supporter of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign.[1][7]
In 1984, Heritage published Mandate For Leadership II: Continuing the Conservative Revolution. Among the policies discussed in the document was the topic of "assisting anti-Marxist insurgency" throughout various countries, recommending that the administration "Employ paramilitary assets to weaken those communist and non-communist regimes" in countries which it considered to be a threat to US interests in those countries, discussing its prospects in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Angola, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Iran and Libya. The work also commented that "the 'contra' operation has been moderately effective."[8]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 James Barham (2023-10-16). "Top Influential Think Tanks Ranked for 2024" Academic Influence. Archived from the original on 2025-08-31.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “Project 2025: A nearly 1000-page document published by right wing strategists in 2023 proposing what policies a Republican president could implement if they won the next election. Project 2025 was the latest installment in the “Mandate for Leadership” series published since 1981 by the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation is widely considered the most important Republican think tank in the country, and the vision it lays out in Project 2025 involves the destruction of vital social services and an overhaul of the structure of the federal government to lock-in right wing policies. Russel Vought, who was appointed by Trump to lead the Office of Management and Budget, is considered the key architect of Project 2025.”
"A glossary to understand the billionaire’s coup" (2025-02-26). Liberation News. Archived from the original on 2025-09-21. - ↑ 3.0 3.1 "About Heritage". The Heritage Foundation. Archived from the original on 2025-09-21.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Counter the CCP". The Heritage Foundation. Archived from the original on 2025-09-21.
- ↑ Lee Edwards (2018-12-03). "What Americans Must Know About Socialism" The Heritage Foundation. Archived from the original on 2025-09-21.
- ↑ "About the Index of Economic Freedom". The Heritage Foundation. Archived from the original on 2025-08-15.
- ↑ "Joe Coors Brews Up the Heritage Foundation". Philanthropy Roundtable. Archived from the original on 2025-09-09.
- ↑ Stuart M. Butler, Michael Sanera, and W. Bruce Weinrod (1984). Mandate for leadership II : continuing the conservative revolution. The Heritage Foundation.