This far-right 'activist hub' is creating 'infrastructure and resources' for Trump’s MAGA takeover
Former President Donald Trump has been trying to distance himself from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's 900-page blueprint for the next Republican presidency.
But Heritage isn't the only GOP group that has been making plans for a second Trump term. Another is the Center for Renewing America.
In an article published on July 15 — the opening day of the 2024 Republican National Convention — The New Yorker's Jonathan Blitzer details the type of "infrastructure and resources" that Trump's allies are helping set up for him if he defeats President Joe Biden or another Democratic candidate in November.
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"The Center for Renewing America is one of roughly two dozen right-wing groups that have emerged in Washington since Trump left office," Blitzer explains. "What unites them is a wealthy network based on Capitol Hill called the Conservative Partnership Institute, which many in Washington regard as the next Trump Administration in waiting."
Blitzer adds, "CPI's list of personnel and affiliates includes some of Trump's most fervent backers: Meadows is a senior partner; Stephen Miller, Trump's top adviser on immigration, runs an associated group called America First Legal, which styles itself as the ACLU of the MAGA movement; Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department lawyer facing disbarment for trying to overturn the 2020 election, is a fellow at the Center for Renewing America."
A GOP source told Blitzer that CPI has "thought deeply about what's needed to create the infrastructure and the resources for a more anti-establishment conservative movement."
Blitzer notes that Meadows, Miller and Clark are all "expected to have high-ranking roles in the government if Trump is elected again."
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According to Blitzer, CPI — founded by Trump ally Jim DeMint in 2017 — isn't a think tank but rather, an "incubator and an activist hub that funds other organizations, coordinates with conservative members of the House and Senate, and works as a counterweight to GOP leadership." And Blitzer points out that the "effort to contest the 2020 election results and the protests of January 6, 2021 were both plotted at CPI's headquarters" in Washington, D.C.
"CPI and its constellation of groups, most of which are nonprofits, raised nearly 200 million dollars in 2022," Blitzer observes. "The organization has bought up some fifty million dollars' worth of real estate in and around Washington, including multiple properties on the Hill.
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Read The New Yorker's full article at this link.
