Hrm. When I worked at one, I did drink A LOT of Maker's Mark...
And ideological rationalizations filtered by those group interests works well in doing so, especially for the "policy elites."
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E.G. "Why hasn't <think tank X> spent attention on <issue y> something they REALLY oppose?!" Because <issue y> implicates the GOP and right now, the GOP is serving the bulk of their (donor's) interests.
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So, instead, they mix attention in a way that mutes observable partisan opposition while maintaining ideological consistency for people who want it for rationalizations.
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That's almost exactly what I think they are: computers for finding simultaneous solutions to both concerns. If you took out the group interests, they would allocate attention *very* differently. And given group sorting into parties, partisanship is extremely predictive.
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