‘A real chilling effect’: A Lefty Scholar Is Dumping CAP — For AEI
15th July 2022
Ruy Teixeira is one of Washington’s most prominent left-leaning think-tank scholars, a fixture at the Center for American Progress since the liberal organization’s founding in 2003. But as of August 1, he’ll have a new professional home: The American Enterprise Institute, the longtime conservative redoubt that over the years has employed the likes of Newt Gingrich, Dinesh D’Souza, and Robert Bork.
Teixeira, whose role in the Beltway scrum often involved arguing against calls to move right on economic issues, insists his own policy views haven’t changed — but says the current cultural milieu of progressive organizations “sends me running screaming from the left.”
He hasn’t, of course–he’s still On The Left. He has just realized that the other people On The Left are a bunch of assholes and (reasonably) doesn’t want to work in that environment.
But of course he refuses to wake up and smell the coffee; and that sort of willing suspension of disbelief is the very definition of the proglodyte.
My question is why the American Enterprise Institute would waste their money paying this guy for his wrong opinions.
This is yet another brick in support of the thesis that most of the people pretending to be conservatives are merely the Me-Too Wing of the political Uniparty, the Washington Generals of the reigning political class. Their job is to put up a good act but inevitably to lose.
And fools give them money. Astonishing.