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Corporate & Economic Right

PRA has long followed the ideologies advocated by the Economic Right. The claim to individual liberties is often used to justify economic models like free markets, limited government, and privatization, as well as policies that roll back labor and environmental regulations. The resulting economic precarity sets up the conditions for the Far Right to deploy Blaming a person or group wrongfully for some problem, especially for other people’s misdeeds. Scapegoating deflects people’s anger and grievances away from the real causes of a social problem onto a target group demonized as malevolent wrongdoers. Learn more narratives and authoritarian solutions to manage crises. The Corporate Right refers to those corporations who influence social and political life in order to protect or advance economic interests through right-wing political strategies and tactics. This translates to the capture/occupation of state institutions, allowing corporate interests to effectively dictate or heavily influence the policies and operations of government.

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Public Eye
Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative reveals a new neoreactionary bloc is growing in strength and influence within the Trump administration, although competing interests may reveal fault lines in this coalition of tech capitalists.
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Religion Dispatches
According to author Kevin Kruse, the idea that America is a “Christian nation” was invented only recently, forged by an alliance between industrialists and conservative clergy who preached the…
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Public Eye
The U.S. Right’s Pronatalist Coalition
Pronatalism has produced a tenuous coalition of traditional conservatives, abortion opponents, and White nationalists working together with tech moguls, futurists, libertarians, and libertines, united in a common cause of promoting more births.
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Religion Dispatches
The Green family who initiated the Hobby Lobby case may be evangelical Christians, but Hobby Lobby is very much a product of the Catholic Church’s long standing efforts to create conscience exemptions…
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Public Eye
COVID-19 Opportunism and Betsy DeVos’s Education Agenda
Exemplifying why she was nominated to the position, Betsy DeVos has capitalized on COVID-19 emergency measures to expedite her long-standing goal of dismantling public education.
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