MAGA’s Intellectual Muse

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Sat, 24/02/2024 - 08:30
Updated
Sat, 24/02/2024 - 08:30
I’ve written before about Christopher Rufo, the young force behind the ant-woke crusade that’s got the GOP all excited. That’s his latest, in response to the news that the Heritage Foundation is laying the groundwork for a massive government intrusion into the American family life, especially the bedroom. Rufo is all for it, claiming later on Xitter that his comments are all empirical facts. If only the bitches would just put their biscuits in the oven and their buns in the bed we’d all be so much better off, amirite? Even little girls under 13 need to understand what they were put on this earth to do. No matter what. I urge you to read the latest on Rufo over at Wonkette by Doctor Zoom: Rufo’s list of illustrious employers and publishers include the Manhattan Institute and its nutty City Journal, the intelligence-design-friendly Discovery Institute, and scientific racism-spouting doorstop Aporia, just to name a few. So it comes as no surprise that The Guardian has a piece on Wednesday revealing Rufo’s relationship with a magazine called IM-1776, a journal of the “dissident right” with quite a few anonymous contributors (almost universally not a good sign when talking about right-wing publications). IM-1776 is the sort of magazine that publishes sentences like this with a straight face:                                                                                                             That’s from a piece praising Nayib Bukele, the right-wing president of El Salvador who has, among other things, sent armed troops into his nation’s legislature to intimidate legislators into approving a $100 million loan from the United States that would have gone towards his controversial…