The post-Trump right: Inside the Heritage Foundation’s civil war
Who will control the Republican Party? A “coup” at the bastion of American conservatism may tell us.
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August 3, 2026

The Heritage Foundation, the bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025, has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.

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