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1. What I can't believe is that Ms. Crockett hasn't been canned from her sinecure job...
Thu Jul 21, 2022, 04:19 PM
Jul 2022

...at the Center of the American Experiment. She has made any number of career-ending gaffes and outright racist and anti-Semitic statements. In addition to her sinecure make-work position at CAE, she is also VP and general counsel at the Charlemagne Institute. This "think" tank is obsessed with "Western Civilization" and "Greco-Roman ideals and values", which are giant dog whistles to the alt-right morons. Charlemagne Institute also appears closely affiliated with Catholic rad-tradism (check out the Our Sunday Visitor link to a thoroughly uncritical, fawning article; OSV is a Catholic radtrad paper for those who feel that the official Archdiocesan newspaper is too liberal).

https://www.startribune.com/bloomington-think-tank-parts-ways-with-academic-over-racist-e-mails/558862522/
https://www.osvnews.com/amp/2019/03/20/the-charlemagne-institute-reawakening-western-thought/

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