Right-Wing Think Tanks, the Democratic Party, and the Far Right
b'Conservative think tanks, like the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the Cato Institute, have had enormous success in shaping political ideas and policy over the last forty years.\\xa0 But historian Jason Stahl argues that some of their greatest achievements have been in remaking the terrain on which historically liberal think tanks have operated on.\\xa0 He reflects on the ways that the Democratic Party moved to the right in the 1990s, influenced by the Democratic Leadership Council\\u2019s think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute.\\xa0 Stahl also discusses the power of ideas amongst white supremacists, as illustrated by the appeal of Richard Spencer, of the far right National Policy Institute think tank.\\nThe post Right-Wing Think Tanks, the Democratic Party, and the Far Right appeared first on KPFA.'