The path to fascism has been paved with some very powerful money and networking. The US is in deep trouble.
https://www.propublica.org/article/leonard-leo-teneo-videos-documents
Teneo is building what Leo called in the video “networks of conservatives that can roll back” liberal influence in Wall Street and Silicon Valley, among authors and academics, with pro athletes and Hollywood producers. A Federalist Society for everything.
A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid out his next audacious project.
Ever since the longtime Federalist Society leader helped create a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court, and then received more than a billion dollars from a wealthy Chicago business owner to disburse to conservative causes, Leo’s next moves had been the subject of speculation.
Now, Leo declared in a slick but private video to potential donors, he planned to “crush liberal dominance” across American life. The country was plagued by “woke-ism” in corporations and education, “one-sided journalism” and “entertainment that’s really corrupting our youth,” said Leo amid snippets of cheery music and shots of sunsets and American flags.
The records show Teneo’s members have included a host of prominent names from the conservative vanguard, including such elected officials as U.S. Sens. J.D. Vance of Ohio and Missouri’s Josh Hawley, a co-founder of the group. Other members have included Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, now the fourth-ranking House Republican, as well as Nebraska’s attorney general and Virginia’s solicitor general. Three senior aides to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, are members. Another is the federal judge who struck down a Biden administration mask mandate. The heads of the Republican Attorneys General Association, Republican State Leadership Committee and Turning Point USA — all key cogs in the world of national conservative politics — have been listed as Teneo members.
This WILL work and will be very difficult to stop. It will be very confusing to corporate boards, and the default position for most will be to try to keep their head down rather than lose position, then many will see it as a chance to gain power with this rising rightwing fascist network, and the few that fight it too loudly in the boardrooms will be targets and sidelined.
It’s not about drag shows. It think it’s about rolling back DEI, ESG, workers rights, and LGBTQ, and creating a network that financially
rewards conservatives for becoming more and more fascist than their peers, day by day, and creates a system to punish anyone who stands in their way.
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