I'm not entirely sure what to do with this. Like, in my personal life I have a don't-talk-to-Heritage rule (though, tbc, they've never talked to me). He violated that fundamental rule, but I don't see any evidence that he participated in drafting the terrible thing. It looks more like Heritage 1/

reached out to him as a former USAID person to talk about the role of foreign aid (or whatever), then thanked him in the acknowledgments. Again, I have thoughts about talking to an insurrection-boosting organization, and it would have been better judgment not to talk to them at all, 2/