The Real Deep State (Part 2/7)
How The Right-Wing Captured America
At the request of several readers, this article is part of a multi-part series exposing the real deep state—the corporate-theocratic machine that has quietly reshaped America for decades. Each part breaks down a different aspect of its power structure, revealing how it operates and how we can dismantle it. This is Part [2/7]
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The Institutions That Enforce Right-Wing Rule
The architects of the right-wing deep state built the blueprint. The institutions they created turned it into a fully operational machine.
The conservative takeover of America wasn’t just about ideology—it was about infrastructure. Think tanks, lobbying groups, legal networks, and media empires were methodically built over decades to control policy, law, and public perception.
These institutions don’t answer to voters, yet they dictate legislation, judicial rulings, and government priorities. They ensure that no matter who is in office, the real power remains in corporate boardrooms, billionaire-funded foundations, and far-right legal networks.
This is how the right-wing deep state enforces its power:
The Heritage Foundation: The Right’s Policy Factory
Founded in 1973 by Paul Weyrich and corporate backers, the Heritage Foundation is the most influential right-wing think tank in America. It doesn’t just influence policy—it writes it.
From Reaganomics to Trump’s tax cuts, from voter suppression laws to anti-LGBTQ+ policies, Heritage is the assembly line for conservative legislation.
Heritage’s Lasting Impact:
The Reagan Revolution: Heritage dictated Reagan’s budget cuts, deregulation policies, and tax slashes for the wealthy, shaping the neoliberal order that still dominates today.
Judicial Takeover: In 1981, Heritage advised Reagan on stacking the courts with hard-right ideologues—a blueprint later used by Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society.
Project 2025: Heritage’s current plan for a second Trump presidency—an authoritarian roadmap that includes:
Purging civil servants who won’t obey Trump.
Expanding presidential power to bypass Congress.
Destroying the DOJ’s independence to shield Republicans from prosecution.
A Christian nationalist agenda to replace secular governance.
Without the Heritage Foundation, there’s no Reaganomics, no judicial coup, no playbook for authoritarian rule.
ALEC: The Secret Hand Behind Republican Legislation
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is where corporate lobbyists and Republican lawmakers meet in secret to draft legislation.
Unlike Heritage, which creates policy ideas, ALEC literally writes the bills that get introduced in state legislatures across the country. It is corporate rule in its purest form—unelected billionaires crafting laws behind closed doors.
ALEC’s Lasting Impact:
Voter Suppression: ALEC wrote the blueprint for voter ID laws, felony disenfranchisement, and gerrymandering laws that suppress Democratic votes.
Stand Your Ground Laws: After Trayvon Martin’s murder, ALEC’s gun lobbyists pushed laws that let killers like George Zimmerman walk free.
Anti-Union Legislation: ALEC writes the bills that strip public-sector workers of bargaining power—gutting unions and keeping wages low.
Climate Denial: ALEC funnels fossil fuel money into blocking environmental regulations and promoting anti-climate science policies.
Without ALEC, Republicans would still have to write their own bills. Now, corporations do it for them.
The Federalist Society: The Right-Wing Judiciary Factory
The Federalist Society is the pipeline that funnels far-right judges into the courts.
Founded in 1982 by conservative legal activists, it trains, grooms, and places extremist judges in positions of power. Leonard Leo, its leader, turned it into the most powerful legal cartel in American history.
The Federalist Society’s Lasting Impact:
Handpicking Supreme Court Justices: The group selected, vetted, and confirmed Justices Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett—cementing a 6-3 far-right majority.
Overturning Roe v. Wade: The Dobbs decision, which gutted abortion rights, was engineered by Federalist Society judges.
Destroying Voting Rights: Their justices gutted the Voting Rights Act, making voter suppression laws easier to pass.
Shielding Corruption: Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, both Federalist Society judges, were caught taking bribes from billionaires—yet remain untouchable.
Without the Federalist Society, the judiciary might still be accountable to democracy. Instead, it’s a tool for authoritarian rule.
The Evangelical Church: The Right’s Theocratic Army
"What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ."
—Ralph Reed, Christian Coalition
The evangelical church is not just a religious movement—it is a political institution.
The Moral Majority, Christian Coalition, and megachurch networks function as an extension of the Republican Party, directing millions of voters based on fabricated moral crises.
The Evangelical Church’s Lasting Impact:
Voter Mobilization: Evangelicals form the largest and most loyal GOP voting bloc, mobilized through church sermons, religious radio, and conservative pastors.
Weaponizing Abortion & LGBTQ+ Issues: By framing abortion, same-sex marriage, and trans rights as existential moral battles, they’ve distracted voters from economic policies that hurt them.
Christian Nationalism: Evangelical leaders preach that America was founded as a Christian nation and must be governed by biblical law—undermining the separation of church and state.
Funding the Far Right: Evangelical organizations funnel billions of tax-exempt dollars into Republican campaigns and conservative media, making them a political superpower.
Without the evangelical church, there is no right-wing culture war, no Christian nationalism, and no foot soldiers for the Republican Party.
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Dark Money Networks: The Invisible Billionaire Overlords
None of this would be possible without billionaire funding.
Through dark money networks, right-wing billionaires launder billions of dollars into politics—buying elections, bribing judges, and creating laws in their favor.
How Dark Money Runs the Right-Wing Deep State:
The Koch Network: Funded Heritage, ALEC, and the Federalist Society, ensuring every Republican policy benefits billionaires.
Leonard Leo’s $1.6 Billion Fund: A bribery slush fund used to stack the courts with right-wing judges.
The Bradley Foundation: A key funder of voter suppression laws, think tanks, and media disinformation campaigns.
Super PACs & Shell Organizations: Billionaires funnel unlimited money into attack ads, fake news, and political hit jobs—all without accountability.
Without dark money, the right-wing deep state wouldn’t exist. Billionaires made sure they own the system.
A System Designed for Permanent Right-Wing Rule
These institutions weren’t created to win debates. They were created to make debate irrelevant.
Heritage writes the policies.
ALEC turns them into laws.
The Federalist Society ensures courts uphold them.
Evangelicals provide the foot soldiers.
Fox and Sinclair sell them to the public.
Dark money billionaires fund the entire operation.
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Because silence is surrender. We never surrender. We are #TheRelentless.
ALEC was a new one to me. Thanx.
The thing is that Trump 2.0 has the remnants of the victims of the COVID democide that are this close to finding out that orange playboy went along with it.
I think that's why there's less unity among the movement. He appoints tyrants just like he did first time but this time people are calling out the pipsqueak.
The propagandists are still pushing lab leak to try and give him legitimacy but the holes in the story are being seen.
https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/somehow-it-must-have-escaped
Unlike 911, this war was global and everyone was hurt by it.
How long until we spot the predators in charge?
https://robc137.substack.com/p/covid