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Matthew J. Peterson Profile picture
@docMJP
Aug 2 • 16 tweets • 7 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
THREAD on exciting news and my personal trajectory amidst all the madness.

In 2020, as we hurtled towards election day, @rikkiratliff (champion) had me on with @glennbeck to talk about how the Right had failed to organize and prepare for what was coming.

The response from the audience was overwhelming; it saddened me as I knew it was too late to do any of what was need to change the outcome. When the inevitable happened that November, I knew I needed to stop complaining and just go out and build things I knew were needed.
At time I was a VP at @ClaremontInst, where I founded @theammind w/@jamespoulos & headed up the Fellowship programs, all of which was fostered/made possible by @RpwWilliams.

Still involved! Will meet this yr's Lincoln & Marshall Fellows later this month.

claremont.org/page/fellowshi…
But I knew I needed to build anew and my friends at Claremont were supportive. After speaking with a variety of people I decided to move to Dallas and work with @nateafischer to co-found @NewFoundingOrg.

Nate was bold enough to take on the risk of taking action.

And so we did.
We started as a sort of venture firm for the right. We interacted w/people throughout the nation & gathered a lot of ideas, energy, & talent. We also placed a lot of talented people while spinning out new ideas and entities. I'm grateful for all those involved, past and present.
Examples: @_alvinlui went on to found @couragehabit, which we were glad to foster, doing important work for parents & children. @rudzki is now Technology Director w/@AndrewBeckUSA & @ausstone at @beckandstone. @Basqueinmyglory is a Director of Marketing at @isi. Many such cases.
With @AmFirebrand we created cutting edge media that pushed the right forward. Point was to lead by example with the kind of rhetoric the Right sorely needed. Examples? Many took inspiration from & imitated @TomKlingenstein's "The War" after its release.

People like @dbongino saw our classic Martha's Vineyard take



and praised it accordingly:

https://t.co/T72iDpEJZv

“How to Talk About January 6th” + our corresponding talking points had impact. More Rs should've listened...

https://t.co/2SHXEzJklQ

Throughout it all, @midwesterneur did amazing, groundbreaking work and continues on as one of the top comms directors in the nation.

Members of media team are all moving to bigger things soon.

We were glad to host @molmccann's podcast for a time too.

https://t.co/EtyXQNJYMH
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But mostly at New Founding itself I began to see a rising commercial-cultural movement emerge and we helped foster it. I will continue to do so and help others do the same.

That was what the podcast and this essay was about:

https://t.co/XsR3alsOVY https://t.co/qeBwDfGg6Aapple.co/3REoUn1
americanmind.org/salvo/the-way-…
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Aligned capital & talent increasingly desire to connect to build a better future; a realistic but bold vision of the future we're working/fighting for needs to be filled out.

But as I said in the essay last yr, THAT requires media to shape & inspire it.

https://t.co/woyxnN1MYeamericanmind.org/salvo/the-way-…
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And others already share that vision and have been working towards it for years.

@glennbeck had already built that media group. CEO

@TyCardon is a champion of the cause who sees the big picture.

It made sense to join them.

https://t.co/JGbLVahCjO
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So I did, as editor in chief, with our media crew.

Now also a @BlazeTV host, @jamespoulos's @returndotlife (tech) brings @petergietl.

@helen_of_roy and @matthimes will continue on lifestyle, along with social media master @loganclarkhall and marketing guru @swampistredux.
Although I will no longer be part of @NewFoundingOrg, I am glad to have been & wish the mission well. @NateAFischer will continue on w/good guys like @Byzness, @SantsPliego, & @JoshuaClemans et al. connecting talent/even building out shared office spaces.

newfounding.com
So there you have it. I look forward to doing great things with a great team at Blaze. These things are never easy, but this was a win-win for all concerned. I'm grateful to all those who supported me in all these efforts, and to all generally concerned—even the haters & losers.
ps

The Summit was just a small taste of what's to come.

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Over a decade ago I spent the better part of three years of my life testing teachers and student in American history nationwide while studying the founding era and my conclusion was: we are screwed.

You can’t/won’t keep republican form of government like this. Not possible.
There’s no coming back anytime soon. The damage is done and baked deep into the system itself. Red states can, should, and must radically reform their entire educational systems. This requires wholly new means of credentialing and teaching teachers.

That’s your only hope.
Generations now have no deep cultural anchors or ties to shared meaning—no clear understanding of their nation’s basic workings or history or anything at all about religion or ideas—except for a smattering of corporate products like video games and TV shows and movies.
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You will hear more about this in the coming years. The generation born after the emergence of the iPhone has not even reached adulthood yet. But they aren't telling you much yet about how "the data" reveals an absolute nightmare: the terraforming of children's brain function.
For kids who grow up with unfettered use of screens we are talking about not having normal executive brain function by the time they pass 25. Never mind warped physiological addictions (porn, video games) for some and ideological brain worms for others.
Never mind eyesight problems - whole generations will need glasses, etc. a decade sooner than normal. Look, put it this way: you will soon hear people say "this is far worse than smoking and the like" and anyone decent will want to do something about it.
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Jun 19
People who helped create the virus don’t want to publicly debate about it, no.

The fact that we paid for the research that caused it—the fact that the entire worldwide pandemic was caused by the *failure* of experts—is not something any of them are ever going to acknowledge. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The entire true story here, from the origins of the virus to the reaction and response, is all about the corruption of the experts and the abject failure of expertise, from start to finish.
This is why midwits like Tom Nichols are jesters, clowns strutting about the stage, paid now only to lie about the obvious. To say the opposite of truth, loudly. Ceaselessly protesting too much.
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Jun 19
Happy Father’s Day. Thread.

Meditate on Aeneas. Pious Aeneas and his pious father, whom he carries forth from burning Troy while also leading his son to safety. It’s all here. In this story and images it conjures. ImageImageImageImage
Father Aeneas saves his father but later, after his death, Aeneas goes to the underworld itself to see him. And his father often speaks to him from beyond the grave, urging his grief-stricken son on.
Reeling from the loss of his city and his people, Aeneas is reluctant to let go of his past and embrace his future. His father, Anchises, is something like the father spoken of at the end of No Country for Old Men:
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Jun 17
"Up from Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of Decay" is a must read and you should preorder it right now. A sneak peak of a snippet from my chapter, Winning the Economic War:

amazon.com/Up-Conservatis…
"The American Right has already lost this battle and must now wholly rethink its approach if it is to win the war. There are no easy solutions, but there is a clear strategy to pursue, which is in contradiction to the views the Right has espoused for the last generation."
"The first step is to boldly and publicly acknowledge that our economy is a political and cultural warzone, and to act accordingly. There are two paths forward that must ultimately converge if we are to stop woke capital and all it now controls."
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May 3
Tucker Carlson did nothing wrong.

Fox News, on the other hand, must be destroyed. By competition that does the job better.

No one at top there understands what’s happening and what’s needed. No vision. They didn’t deserve Tucker anyhow. We need to build a bigger, better option.
This is not “optional”.

It is necessary.

Fox jumped the shark long ago. It is not led by those who understand what is happening or even what a digital platform is, never mind how to grow it, never mind stand against the powers that be.
The main problem for most media entities—yes, even those on the right—is that those at top of the company actually running the show don’t care about what’s going on, don’t know what’s going on, or actively hate and oppose you. No cohesive editorial vision. Etc. Internalize this.
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