And it's not just that the gatekeepers have largely disappeared, it's also that massively funded anti-democratic organizations like the Heritage Foundation (and the Trump-owned GOP) have completely shed whatever shred of shame they may have once had about knowingly telling enormous lies.

The Heritage Foundation etc. have largely *supplanted* the gatekeepers.

Have I mentioned lately that Heritage got tons of $$$ from the Guardabassi family? The head of that family funded a range of American antisemites & fascists from the 1950s into the 70s. She held parties at her Palm Beach mansion where she'd muse about killing all the Jews. bsky.app/profile/seth...

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Here's a letter from one of the Countess's friends to Pedro del Valle in which she fondly recalls "that day she said 'Why don't we kill them all?' How we laughed. She was so cute and so honest...I'm still searching for more evidence that Rocky [Nelson Rockefeller] is a Jew." By "them" she meant Jews