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I don't think anyone has taken the time to read the document they put out. Its about 1000 pages long. One thread within it is their anti-marxist and anticommunist stances. All foreign policy within the document has to do with AES States. They mention rooting out Marxist from the military and academics. They paint that label with a broad brush, obviously, but that simply means more libs will be caught up in the future blacklisting along side actual Marxists.
Its a party program written by the Heritage Foundation. They wrote the end of the Cold War policies for Reagan. They operate on a longer time scale then the electoral time scale. They are the vanguard party for the right. They are also winners. I mean that too. They get what they want.
So expect things to get hot for the left very soon. We might be looking at a new age McCarthy era on the horizon.
They already do this
Right now they only do this to leftists, black people, and to some extent queer people. And nowhere near the amount they did it during the Cold war. They're gonna expand that to libs, progressive, and probably increase their efforts against other groups.
But the thing is, you're right in a different way. This isn't them exposing their plans, this is them getting ready to take a victory lap. The hard work has been done. They've been doing it since Nixon at least. The Democrats had plenty of opportunities to stop this, but that would've required them admitting something they can't admit: that bourgeoisie democracy and capitalism don't work. Even if some mean well as politicians, they can't do anything truly meaningful to stop it, or else the oligarchs that run the country will retract funding and fund your opponents.
Heritage Foundation isn't republicans only either. Dems are in on it too.