Club for Growth

[[File:ClubForGrowth.jpg|thumb|165px|Club For Growth logo]]
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The '''Club for Growth''' is an [[American]] [[conservative]] 501(c)4 non-profit [[Political action committee|Super-PAC.]]

The Club for Growth successfully ''grows'' the [[Democratic Party]] by ''clubbing'' sitting [[Republican Party|Republican]] incumbents over the head with primary challenges from the [[wingnut|far-right]].  [[Congress]]ional seats in states as diverse as [[Maryland]] and [[Idaho]] have swung to Democratic control after Club for Growth-backed candidates won their Republican primaries.  In 2009 an impending primary challenge from a Club for Growth leader drove center-right Senator Arlen Specter of [[Pennsylvania]] to switch to the Democrats.

The slogan "''[[New York Times]]''-reading, latte-drinking, [[National Public Radio]]-listening, Volvo-driving, body-piercing freak show" comes from a Club for Growth-sponsored ad from 2004.<ref>[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/07/cf.00.html Presidential Ad War Under Way], CNN</ref> Because trashing [[coffee]] and reliable [[car]]s and journalism are great conservative traits.

==Policy==
The chief policies the CfG advocate for are ''extremely'' [[libertarian]]-leaning. They advocate for eliminating the [[death tax|estate tax]]{{efn|Because of course.}}, cutting [[income tax]] rates, supporting "[[Small government|limited government]]", the [[privatization]] of social infrastructure, [[free trade]], "[[school choice]]," and tort reform.<ref>https://www.clubforgrowth.org/issues/</ref> 

The CfG have also been heavy on pushing climate policy that benefits the interests of big oil, notably having pushed for [[Trump]] to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement,<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/332518-club-for-growth-calling-on-trump-to-exit-paris-climate-deal/</ref> as he later did.

The CfG, unsurprisingly, are also [[cryptocurrency]] grifters. They even have a PAC called (what else) the "Bitcoin Freedom PAC".<ref>https://www.clubforgrowth.org/about/bitcoin-freedom-pac/</ref> Unsurprisingly, this important activism in the fight for currency freedom calls for elections against Democrats and no significant policy proposals.

==2020 US election==
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The CfG spent tons of money, to the tunes of millions, to candidates that pushed [[bullshit]] [[conspiracy theories]] about the 2020 U.S. presidential election that caused the [[2021 U.S. coup attempt]]. Among those who the CfG backed include [[Josh Hawley]] and [[Qanon]] nut [[Lauren Boebert]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/15/trump-republicans-election-defeat-club-for-growth</ref>

==Peter Thiel==
As of at least 2012, [[Peter Thiel]] is one of their "action" wing's big donors. <ref>Dave Levinthal (August 20, 2012). [https://www.politico.com/story/2012/08/peter-thiel-gives-1m-to-club-for-growth-super-pac-079904 "Thiel gives tea party super PAC $1M"]. ''Politico''.</ref><ref>Theodore Schleifer (October 18, 2018). [https://www.vox.com/2018/10/18/17998468/peter-thiel-club-for-growth-republican-donation "Peter Thiel cut his largest check to the GOP since Trump’s 2016 win"]. ''Vox''.</ref>

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