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Jan 18, 2023 12 tweets 5 min read Read on X
One common thread in the ideologies of well-known militia, libertarians, Koch's, Tea Party and other noecons is an appreciation and following of the works of W. Cleon Skousen.

Both Skousen and Fred Koch were early Birchers.
Let's find us some Koch out in the wild🐯🌴, shall we? 😆
Do an advanced search for "Skousen", and you'll see a steady stream of people (maybe some bots 2) promoting the works of Skousen.
Citizens for Responsible Education has been attacking public education in MA. Speaking at one of their forums were representatives from Massachusetts Family Institute and American Enterprise Institute.
The president of Massachusetts Family Institute came from Alliance Defending Freedom. He is also director of Renew Massachusetts Coalition.
The executive director...
They also run a program called Catholic Citizenship.

Not exactly non-partisan, but wutchagonna do?
Massachusetts Family Institute has been working with
First Liberty and Alliance Defending Freedom on cases that do & could end up in front of SCOTUS.
Getting back to Skousen for a second, there are other Skousens in the arena - Mark and Joel Skousen.

Is that Tea Party comrade Mike Lee?
The real danger of libertarian/Tea Partiers, is that they readily reference disinformation agents and conspiracy theorists. 🙄
And look who provides a quote for Skousen's book. 🧐

Yeah.

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