Why Are We Not Talking About This: Unmasking the American Moment's Brown Shirt Finishing School, Hitler Style

The Propaganda in this Article is for Example only. WHY????

You know what keeps me up at night: How the fuck did we let these authoritarian assholes build a conveyor belt from college campuses straight into the beating heart of our government?

The Architects of Our Demise

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does." - Jean-Paul Sartre

American Moment: The Raw Data Exposed

Core Identity

EIN Number: 85-1875789 (the bureaucratic fingerprint of influence)
Legal Name: American Moment, Inc. (dressed up in incorporation formality)
Incorporation: Tax-exempt status granted by IRS in April 2021 (fresh-minted political machinery)
Classification: 501(c)(3) Educational Organization / Research Institutes & Public Policy Analysis (W05)

Leadership Apparatus

President & Executive Director: Saurabh Sharma (25-year-old biochemistry graduate turned conservative kingmaker)
Chief Operations Officer: Nick Solheim (also runs The Wallace Institute for Arctic Security)
Chief Creative Officer: Jake Mercier (Editor-in-Chief of AmCanon, former assistant to Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti)
Development Associate: Samuel D. Samson (strategic partnerships and fundraising)

Financial Blood Flow

2023 Revenue: $1,336,388 (significant growth from startup)
2023 Expenses: $1,314,577 (burning through cash for influence)
2023 Net Income: $21,811 (barely breaking even)
2023 Net Assets: $241,937 (modest war chest)

2022 Revenue: $1,112,332 (explosive year-over-year growth)
2022 Expenses: $890,894
2022 Net Income: $221,438

2021 Revenue: $737,442 (first full year operational)
2021 Expenses: $874,692
2021 Net Income: -$137,250 (bleeding money in startup phase)

2020 Revenue: $179,005 (founding year, minimal operations)
2020 Expenses: $43,067

Staffing Machine

Employees (2022): 17 individuals (lean operation, maximum impact)

Funding Pipeline - The Money Trail

Conservative Partnership Institute: $336,000 (2021) (major foundation backer)
Dunn Foundation: $25,000 (2022)
Note: American Moment is not required to disclose its funders - these are only what's traceable through public filings

Operational Headquarters

Address: 300 Independence Avenue S.E., Washington, DC 20003 (prime real estate in the power corridor)
Phone: 202-977-8552

Board of Advisors - The Power Network

Rachel Bovard, Saagar Enjeti, Ryan Girdusky, Josh Hammer, Terry Schilling, J.D. Vance (the who's who of populist conservatism)

Mission Statement - The Official Line

American Moment's mission is to identify, educate, and credential young Americans who will implement public policy that supports strong families, a sovereign nation, and prosperity for all

Program Operations - The Influence Machine

Fellowship for American Statecraft: $3,000 per month summer stipend, placement on Capitol Hill or public policy nonprofits (breeding ground for conservative operatives)

Personnel Database: Internal database of vetted young people, including detailed notes on background, policy expertise, interests, professional history, connections, worldview, and influences (sophisticated talent pipeline)

American Moment Studios: Content generation arm bringing digestible visual and written content to mass audience

"Moment of Truth" Podcast: Original production geared toward young people with interest in policy and politics

Performance Metrics - The Brutal Truth

Charity Navigator Rating: 0/4 Stars (48% score) (dismal transparency and accountability)
Tax Filing Status: Required to file IRS Form 990
Public Footprint: URL not available (deliberately minimal public presence)

Political Connections - The Web of Influence

Heritage Foundation Project 2025: Advisory board member (official pipeline to future conservative administrations)
Edmund Burke Foundation: Saurabh Sharma appointed Executive Director (expanding institutional control)

The Bottom Line

This is a precisely calibrated political personnel factory, operating with surgical efficiency to embed nationalist-conservative operatives throughout the federal government apparatus. The financial trajectory from $179k to $1.3M in revenue over four years reveals an organization that has mastered the art of scaling political influence while maintaining plausible deniability through educational nonprofit status.

"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing." - Raymond Williams

The Machinery of Manipulation

So what exactly does this den of deplorables do with their time and donor money? Let me paint you a fucking picture that'll make your skin crawl like maggots on roadkill:

Their primary operations include:

1. The Fellowship Program - A twelve-week indoctrination camp that would make North Korean reeducation centers jealous. Here's what these fuckers put their victims through:

• Week 1-3: Breaking down any remaining democratic instincts through intensive readings of obscure conservative philosophers who make Ayn Rand look like a socialist

• Week 4-6: Rebuilding their worldview around the principle that might makes right and the market is God

• Week 7-9: Advanced techniques in bureaucratic sabotage - how to slow-walk regulations, misinterpret laws, and generally fuck up government from the inside

• Week 10-12: Networking and placement, where they learn the secret handshakes and code words that will identify them as members of the fascist fraternity

2. Strategic Placement Pipeline - This isn't just about getting jobs; it's about infiltrating every level of government like a metastasizing tumor:

• Congressional offices: Placing true believers as legislative assistants who can poison bills from their inception

• Federal agencies: Embedding operatives in the EPA, Department of Education, and other agencies they want to destroy

• State governments: Spreading their infection to state capitals where they can implement their agenda without federal oversight

• Think tanks and media: Creating an echo chamber that makes their extremism sound reasonable

• Judicial clerkships: Getting their people next to judges who will spend decades reshaping American law

3. Propaganda Production - They're not just spreading ideas; they're manufacturing consent for authoritarianism:

• Publishing articles that make fascism sound like common sense

• Creating social media campaigns that target young conservatives with algorithmic precision

• Producing podcasts where they interview each other in a circle-jerk of mutual validation

• Writing policy papers that provide intellectual cover for cruelty

4. Event Hosting and Network Building - Every gathering is a recruitment opportunity and a chance to strengthen their web:

• Monthly "salons" where they discuss how to dismantle the administrative state over craft cocktails

• Annual conferences featuring speakers who make the John Birch Society look moderate

• Informal meetups in D.C. bars where deals are made and democracy dies one beer at a time

• Donor events where billionaires bid on which part of government they want to buy

The stench of these gatherings lingers in the air like a fart in an elevator - you can't escape it, and everyone pretends they don't smell it. The young recruits sit there, absorbing every word like sponges soaking up sewage, their minds being rewired to see cruelty as strength and compassion as weakness.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr.

But here's where it gets really fucking sinister. Their connection to Project 2025 isn't just organizational - it's ideological, financial, and operational. They're not just participants; they're architects of this authoritarian blueprint. While Project 2025 provides the roadmap for dismantling federal agencies and installing loyalists, American Moment provides the bodies to fill those positions. It's a match made in hell, consecrated with the tears of everyone who ever believed in democratic governance.

The Endgame Exposed

Now let's talk about what these motherfuckers actually intend to do, because their goals are about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the skull. Here's their fucking playbook, laid out in all its terrifying glory:

Their Five-Pronged Assault on Democracy:

1. Complete Ideological Capture of Conservative Politics

• Transform the Republican Party from a political organization into a revolutionary vanguard

• Purge anyone who shows even a hint of moderation or willingness to compromise

• Create purity tests that would make Stalin's show trials look fair

• Establish a new orthodoxy where questioning the leader is tantamount to treason

2. Permanent Infrastructure Within Government

• Install sleeper cells throughout the federal bureaucracy who will remain regardless of election outcomes

• Create shadow networks that can sabotage progressive policies from within

• Build institutional knowledge that allows them to navigate and manipulate government systems

• Establish a deep state, but one that serves their authoritarian agenda

3. Redefinition of American Identity

• Narrow the definition of "real American" to exclude anyone who doesn't fit their white, Christian, heterosexual mold

• Rewrite history curricula to glorify authoritarianism and demonize diversity

• Create a cultural atmosphere where dissent equals disloyalty

• Transform patriotism from love of democratic ideals to blind obedience to authority

4. Systematic Destruction of Regulatory Capacity

• Gut the EPA until corporations can poison our water without consequence

• Dismantle the Department of Education to ensure future generations are too ignorant to resist

• Neuter the FDA so that "market forces" decide if your food is safe to eat

• Destroy labor protections until workers have no choice but to accept whatever crumbs are offered

5. Normalization of Extremism Through Strategic Messaging

• Make fascist talking points sound like common sense through repetition and media saturation

• Shift the Overton window so far right that centrist Democrats look like communists

• Create false equivalencies that make their extremism seem like just another political opinion

• Use fear and hatred to make people vote against their own interests

Each of these goals interconnects like a spider's web of fuckery, creating a system where resistance becomes increasingly impossible. They're not just trying to win elections; they're trying to make elections irrelevant.

The Stench of Tomorrow

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

The fucking audacity of these people would be almost admirable if it weren't so goddamn terrifying. They've looked at the smoldering wreckage of American democracy and decided the problem isn't the fire - it's that there aren't enough arsonists. Every day they operate, every fellow they graduate, every connection they make brings us one step closer to an America that would be unrecognizable to anyone who actually gives a shit about freedom, justice, or human dignity.

What makes me want to punch a wall until my knuckles bleed is how open they are about all of this. They're not hiding in the shadows or speaking in code - they're broadcasting their intentions on their website, in their newsletters, at their events. They're counting on our exhaustion, our distraction, our inability to believe that yes, it really is that bad. They're betting that by the time we realize what they've done, it'll be too late to stop them.

The physical sensation of being in their presence is like drowning in a vat of warm milk mixed with battery acid - sickeningly sweet on the surface but corrosive underneath. You can feel your soul dying a little bit with every word they speak, every policy they propose, every young mind they corrupt. The conference rooms where they meet reek of Axe body spray and ambition, a toxic combination that makes you want to scrub your skin raw just to feel clean again.

I've watched these fuckers operate, seen them work a room like predators stalking prey. They identify the insecure, the ambitious, the desperate for belonging, and they sink their hooks in deep. They offer community, purpose, and power - all you have to do is sell your soul and abandon any pretense of human decency. It's like watching a cult recruitment in real-time, except instead of drinking Kool-Aid in the jungle, they're drinking champagne in D.C. while planning the destruction of everything worthwhile about America.

The American Moment represents everything toxic about modern conservatism distilled into its purest, most poisonous form. They've abandoned any pretense of democratic participation in favor of raw power acquisition. They don't want to win the argument; they want to ensure that their argument is the only one allowed to be made. They're not building a movement; they're building a machine designed to crush dissent, destroy diversity, and install their vision of America whether we fucking want it or not.

And here's the real kick in the teeth: they're winning. While we're sitting here arguing about pronouns and Dr. Seuss, they're placing their people in positions throughout government where they can do real, lasting damage. They're playing chess while we're playing checkers, and they're about three moves away from checkmate.

The stench of their ambition fills every corner of Washington, a nauseating mixture of entitlement and extremism that makes you want to retch. You can smell it on their fellows - that particular odor of someone who's sold their soul for a shot at power and doesn't even have the decency to feel bad about it. It clings to their clothes, seeps from their pores, announces their presence before they even enter a room.

Their offices smell like fear and flop sweat, the desperate perspiration of people who know they're racing against demographic change and generational shifts. They're trying to lock in their power before the tide turns, before America becomes too diverse, too educated, too aware to fall for their bullshit. Every policy proposal reeks of desperation masked as confidence, like cologne trying to cover the stench of decay.

The taste they leave in your mouth is metallic and bitter, like you've been sucking on pennies soaked in bile. It's the flavor of democracy dying, one compromised institution at a time. Every speech they give, every op-ed they publish, every young conservative they corrupt adds another layer to that taste until you can't remember what clean air felt like.

So what the fuck do we do about it? First, we need to understand that this isn't politics as usual - this is an existential threat to democratic governance. Second, we need to start taking these bastards seriously instead of dismissing them as fringe actors. They're not fringe anymore; they're becoming the mainstream, one strategically placed fellow at a time. And third, we need to fight back with the same level of organization, determination, and ruthlessness, because playing nice with fascists is how democracies die.

The American Moment isn't just an organization - it's a warning. A warning that democracy isn't self-sustaining, that freedom isn't free, and that there are people actively working to destroy everything we claim to value. They're organized, they're funded, and they're coming for every institution we hold dear. The question isn't whether they'll succeed - it's whether we'll wake the fuck up in time to stop them.

Every morning I wake up knowing these fuckers are already at work, placing another operative, corrupting another institution, poisoning another well of democratic discourse. They don't take days off from destroying America - their dedication to dismantling democracy would be impressive if it weren't so fucking evil. They're termites eating away at the foundations while we argue about what color to paint the walls.

The truth is, they've already won several battles while we weren't paying attention. They've got their people in positions we don't even know exist, making decisions that will affect generations. They've created a pipeline so efficient that they can produce authoritarian operatives faster than universities can produce critical thinkers. They've normalized ideas that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago.

But here's the thing - and this is what keeps me from completely losing my shit - they're not invincible. They're organized, sure, but organization can be matched. They're funded, but money isn't everything. They're dedicated, but dedication born from hatred will always lose to dedication born from love of actual freedom. The problem is we need to stop treating this like a disagreement and start treating it like the war it is.

The American Moment and its ilk are a cancer on the body politic, and you don't negotiate with cancer - you cut it out, you poison it with chemicals, you irradiate it until it's dead. You don't try to understand cancer's point of view or find common ground with tumors. You recognize them as the existential threat they are and you act accordingly.

So yeah, that's what keeps me up at night - knowing that while I'm lying there staring at the ceiling, they're out there building their fascist future one carefully placed operative at a time. But it's also what gets me up in the morning - the knowledge that every day we don't fight back is another day closer to losing everything that matters. The American Moment isn't just their moment - it's ours too. The question is what the fuck we're going to do with it.