A conservative mega-donor whose think tank employs the lawyer who pushed then-Vice President Mike Pence to block Joe Biden’s election win just took another big step into the political arena.
Thomas Klingenstein is the chairman of the board of the Claremont Institute, a conservative California-based think tank that has sought to mainstream and intellectualize the right’s most hard-line views on immigration and culture and led the charge in pushing President Trump’s false claims that the 2020 was stolen from him. And he now has a new super PAC to help like-minded candidates win office in the 2022 midterms.
“We find ourselves in a cold civil war. This is a war not over the size of government or taxes but over the American way of life,” Klingenstein intones in a slickly produced video released by American Firebrand, a new super PAC created by a former Trump administration staffer and Claremont Institute fellows. “This war is between those who want to preserve the American way of life, and those who want to destroy it.”
The super PAC is a new step in Klingenstein’s emergence as a powerful figure on the right—and his efforts to convince conservatives that Democrats aren’t just political adversaries but a dangerous enemy that seeks to destroy America.
“War is not a time for too much civility, compromise, or for imputing good motives to the enemy,” he said in a subsequent video. “Republicans must understand that we are in a war and then act accordingly.”
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