In a recent issue of Foreign Policy magazine, Laura Thornton, the senior vice president for democracy at the U.S. taxpayer-funded German Marshall Fund, published a sweeping polemic attacking The Heritage Foundation, its Project 2025, and democracy itself.
Project 2025 (which I have contributed to) brought together over a hundred conservative organizations to make policy suggestions for the next conservative presidential administration. Among those were recommendations on foreign aid policy.
Thornton is particularly triggered by Project 2025’s call to end the U.S. Agency for International Development’s “divisive political and cultural agenda that promotes abortion, climate extremism, gender radicalism, and interventions against perceived systemic racism.” She calls the recommendation “illiberal.”
The truth is that these issues are divisive and should be…
