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馃毃馃У THREAD: Braver Angels says they're bipartisan and just bringing people together. Their own leadership coordinates with an anti-Trump political infrastructure network.馃毃
This thread is not about BA's members. Many are sincere, and I thank
@wilksopinion
and
@JohnRWoodJr
for communicating with me.
This is about the infrastructure steering them: IMIP.
On August 18, 2025, Harry Boyte, a former Democratic Socialists of America board member, YES, that DSA announced Maury Giles' new role as Braver Angels CEO on video and their shift in strategy from depolarization to civic action:
"David has put together a featured plenary at the National Conference on Citizenship... which will be a launch of a new stage for Braver Angels that some of us have been working on for a while."
IMIP is the Inter-Movement Impact Project. It coordinates BA's strategic direction. Its own May 2025 document quotes David Brooks approvingly:
"Short term: Stop Trump. Foil his efforts. Pile on the lawsuits."
Braver Angels' members are bipartisan. Their leadership is adjacent to anti-Trump infrastructure. This thread has all the receipts.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread.馃憞
April 16, 2026
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IMIP's own document from May 5, 2025 quotes David Brooks and calls for a nationwide civic uprising:
"Short term: Stop Trump. Foil his efforts. Pile on the lawsuits. Turn some of his followers against him."
Then: "IMIP has been working to help answer [this] since late 2017."
1. Thriving Together Inter-Movement Impact Project | Generate Democracy!
2. Unpacking the 4/27/2025 David Brooks Opinion Piece
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Apr 16
Walt Roberts runs IMIP. June 30, 2025:
"We've adopted Rachel Kleinfeld's strategy number four as our thing... a broad-based, multi-stranded, pro-democracy movement."
Flood the country with NGOs (including Braver Angels) is strategy #4. What are the other four strategies?
ransomnote, the video consists of Walt Roberts reading text from the two images below:
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Rachel Kleinfeld, NED, Carnegie Endowment. "Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy."
Strategy 1: "Support prodemocracy candidates in primary campaigns... to ensure antidemocratic candidates lose."
Push ranked choice voting, nonpartisan races, open primaries, or just plain flood the field with establishment candidates using. NGOs.
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Strategy #2: "Reduce Social Demand From the Right for Illiberal Policies and Politicians."
Populists are a pathology to be managed. Other resources address this "dignity deficit" by coercing national service to rebuild civic identity instead of ... just plain wanting to exist as yourself.
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Strategy #3: "Engage the Left in Defending Democracy by Making It Deliver"
Give the left all the socialist policies it wants and give them employment in democracy NGOs so they can actually show up at the polls and stop another Trump.
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ransomnote: at the link strategy 4 is missing.
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Strategy #5: "Strengthen Accountability to Reset Norms on What Behavior is Legal and Acceptable"
Punish populists via lawfare, criminalities, etc. Censor social media.
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So, yeah, the 5 Strategies isn't some benign "yay democracy" document. It is highly ideological and partisan and a plan to transform the country's governance.
And as we will see, the top leadership at the Braver Angels are very much aware of this.
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If you are the get-out-the-vote arm of a campaign, you do not get to say you are "not political" because you never touched the candidate's messaging.
Similarly: IMIP executes one piece of a five-part political program. You cannot extract Strategy 4 from Strategies 1 through 5.
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Apr 16
Now: who designed BA's pivot?
The book Radical-in-Chief says: Harry Boyte is "perhaps the most important advocate of 'stealth socialism' in community organizing."
DSA national board. Communitarian caucus: drop the socialist label. Organize through community language.
There are several more posts to DataRepublican's thread at the link:聽https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2044872558810685867
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