Thread by @jennycohn1

These notes, which Lance says are from a Morton Blackwell Leadership Institute course for young Republicans, say “less voters equates more results.” Naturally, Morton Blackwell is in the CNP. #VoterSuppression 😡 1/

https://twitter.com/LanceASchart/status/1356693697505722375

2/ I wrote about the CNP here. link.medium.com/wI0PHIhAydb

3/ Here is a speech from the 1980s by Paul Weyrich, a CNP co-founder, where he says out loud that he doesn’t want everyone to vote because the GOP’s power goes up as the voting populous goes down. Everyone should listen to this. #VoterSuppression

4/ As I explain in this sourced thread, Karl Rove, Jack Abramoff (a Rove ally who is now a convicted felon several times over), & their pal Ralph Reed all graduated from Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institute. They are all ruthless & immoral. threadreaderapp.com/thread/9250764…

5/ Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute teaches "political technology." leadershipinstitute.org/writings/?ID=32

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7/ Disinformation specialist @davetroy discusses the dangers of political technology (tactics for manipulating the masses that were developed in the Soviet Union) here.

https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1323344023667572737?s=20

7/ "[T]here are political technologies we are not educated in. Like manipulating protest movements, and controlling their opposition. Or in the development and weaponization of cults in service of political and social fragmentation."

8/ "Or the development of 'digital soldiers' to warp online discourse. We think these things are new — but that is our exceptionalism talking."

9/ "Filipinos recognize cult manipulation from the 1980s when several groups there worshipped Ferdinand Marcos as their leader; cults are still a major factor there."

10/ Here's a thread I did on an article discussing political technology and how Trump used those same sorts of techniques. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1245157…