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One year after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, grant makers need a much more powerful response to the continuing spread of right-wing extremism. That should include more direct funding of political organizations and candidates — and a less exclusive focus on organizations with charity status.
Think they would have been better off. >> well, i'm not sure of the facts yet because i still believe -- are you sure you're right about this, that mostly they were the tea party and patriot groups? >> it was mostly. i'll tell you why, chris. it's because after the tea party became a big -- a big deal in the united states, there were hundreds if not thousands of tea party organizations. it was a decentralized movement. >> yeah. >> but if you put "party" in your name or something that sounds political, it's reasonable to expect that the irs will interpret it as a liberal organization. >> john, ...
They targeted improperly the right wing groups. >> i'm not saying they were targeted proper ly. it needs to be put in its context. quickly, chris, in 2010, crossroad gps, karl rove's organization, made a filing, an official filing to the irs where they said that their activities did, quote, did not constitute prime -- their organization did not constitute primarily a political effort. that was materially false. they then spent $70 million trying to effect the outcome of the 2012 election. so when people make false representations to the irs, which many of these tea party and other groups -- >>...
Rather than having it leak, i think they would have been better off. >> well, i'm not sure of the facts yet because i still believe -- are you sure you're right about this, that mostly they were the tea party and patriot groups? >> it was mostly. i'll tell you why, chris. it's because after the tea party became a big -- a big deal in the united states, there were hundreds if not thousands of tea party organizations. it was a decentralized movement. >> yeah. >> but if you put "party" in your name or something that sounds political, it's reasonable to expect that the irs will interpret it as a l...
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