Media Matters has obtained a set of galleys of the Kevin Roberts/Heritage Foundation book, originally titled Dawn’s Early Light: Burning Down Washington. Madeline Peltz is xeeting bits of its formerly secret contents. Please follow her and share this far and wide. This is the first in a new series of DK posts doing so, and digging further into what she reports in each segment.
Our story begins:
Yes, these loonburgers claim that the existence of dog parks prevents children from going to “real” parks, as part of the War on Children, Marriage, and Families.
Can you say, “Weird”, children? Sure you can.
Keep in mind:
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac
Wrong-Wingers learned to hate the public schools from Milton Friedman, who posited that they are necessarily instruments of propaganda and tyranny, and that everyone should get vouchers, so we can have “free-market” competition among schools.
Milton Friedman, Apostle of Economic Creationism
In particular, he wrote, in Capitalism and Freedom,
- I am taking it for granted that the minimum requirements imposed on schools in order that vouchers be usable do not include whether the school is segregated or not.
The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy against Hillary Clinton began when she went undercover to expose segregated “Christian” “academies”, as a law student, although the phrase came into use much later.
NYT: How Hillary Clinton Went Undercover to Examine Race in Education
The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy's Dossier on Hillary Clinton, by Amanda B. Carpenter, straight from the heart of the conspiracy. They actually brag about it.
The list of Regnery authors reads like a "who's who" of conservative thought, action, and history.
Shutting down the Department of Education has long been on the R wish list.
Atheism is by them all about destroying the family? Have I mentioned that they are weird? Back when I was a Jewish atheist, before becoming a Buddhist, the thought never entered my head.
Media Matters
You can read more extensive quotations from the galleys here.
Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts compared abortion access to slave auctions, lynchings, and the Holocaust
by Eric Hananoki
Delayed book by The Heritage Foundation president echoes Project 2025's attacks on unions. JD Vance wrote the foreword.
by John Knefel
In now-delayed book, Heritage president details MAGA plans to remake education: “America's teachers have gone insane”
by Madeline Peltz
In forthcoming book, Heritage president rails against birth control, IVF, abortion, childlessness, and dog parks
Kevin Roberts' Dawn's Early Light: “We don’t merely seek an exit from the system; we are coming for the curriculums and classrooms of the remaining public schools, too"
by Madeline Peltz
Other Social Media
www.mediamatters.org/kevin-roberts/now-delayed-book-heritage-president-details-maga-plans
There are some bogus madeline.peltz accounts that you should ignore.
Also Threads.
Emerging trends in right-wing media
on Twitter // threads (??) are my own
But Wait! Is There More?
We’ll let you know if it turns out that there are even deeper, darker, weirder secrets.
