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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJim DeMint Hasn’t Destroyed Heritage’s Intellectual Integrity
The organization never had any.
I think its interesting that DeMint has pushed Heritage into an even more blatant political role; but the subtext of such stories often seems to be that until DeMint arrived Heritage was a center of honest, serious, if conservative-leaning research.
In their dreams or maybe in the dreams of self-proclaimed centrists, who wanted to believe that such an organization existed.
The truth is that the pre-DeMint Heritage was Hack Central, producing garbage posing as research. It promoted the death tax scam; it proclaimed that the Ryan plan would push the unemployment rate down to 2.8 percent, then tried to send that result down the memory hole. Heritage economists have promoted the fallacy that government spending cant increase demand. And so on.
So Heritage never was a think tank in the sense that actual thought or research took place there. It just played one on TV.
-Paul Krugman
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/jim-demint-hasnt-destroyed-heritages-intellectual-integrity/?smid=re-share
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)DeMint and Heritage are kind of a match.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)"He came from somewhere back in her long ago
The sentimental fool don't see
Trying hard to recreate
What had yet to be created ..."
The entire Beltway is delusional.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,289 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Well done, Krugman.