A. Fuck I hope so
B. But even if it is the end for Heritage, they've already achieved the goal they set out to achieve: Replace democracy with a government of corporations, for corporations, by corporations.
Heritage can go the way of the dinosaur, but all the offshoot organizations, institutions, and policies they helped establish will remain long after they're gone.
You know how there seem to be so many random tech companies (like flock), that just popped up out of nowhere overnight all over the country to help create the authoritarian surveillance state being built?
Then you read about the history of these companies that allegedly started as some kind of side project/hobby between a few friends who lacked any experience or expertise to do the things their company now does? Then yada, yada, yada, for some reason around 2020, a bunch of VC billionaires who refuses to even pay a dime in taxes, decided to just dump an insane amount of money into a startup created by 3 friends who didn't really know what they were doing?
And you start to wonder if it's really just a coincidence these Silicon Valley investors are so tight with the U.S. intelligence agencies that depend on their money to fund most of their bottomless black budget?
There's a similar history behind the Heritage foundation.
Take a look at the insane list of offspring organizations that were created by Heritage co-founder, and the godfather of the modern social conservative movement, Paul Weyrich.
Towards the end of the civil rights movement and just a few years shy of the Powell memo, a radio DJ from a working class family in Wisconsin decides to move to D.C. to work as an aid for Colorado Republican governor Gordon Alcott.
Then, with no college degree, family, or political connections in D.C., he creates the precursor organization to the Heritage Foundation with an investment from Joseph Coors, right around the time the Powell memo is released.
Coors, heir to the Coors brewery fortune, just happens to be good friends with corporate lawyer and U.S. intelligence darling William J. Casey, the man who created the concept of a tax shelter to help businesses skirt the regulations outlined in the New Deal. Coincidentally, Casey would eventually serve as Ronald Reagan's campaign manager and CIA director during his first term before dying very suddenly from a brain tumor during Iran Contra hearings.
Weyrich's precursor organization to Heritage, which focused mainly on social (rather than economic) conservativism fails. However, Weyrich is soon connected with the economic expertise of conservative Ed Feulner, and another investment from Coors helps launch Heritage. Coors' money is soon followed by large donations from Richard Mellon Scaife and other wealthy conservatives.
Heritage creates their first edition of Mandate for Leadership (the most famous edition being Project 2025), and both Carter and Reagan receive a copy before the upcoming election.. Carter ignores it. Reagan loves it.
The Iran hostage crisis unexpectedly allows Reagan to defeat Carter, and Reagan implements the majority of the Mandate for Leadership within his first year in office and appoints Casey as CIA director. Casey dies during the Iran Contra hearings, and subsequently takes all the blame for the entire scandal. The rest is history.
Except, the history nobody really talks about is the fact that Jimmy Carter and several members of his administration firmly believed that prior to the election, Reagan's CIA director, William Casey, traveled to Iran and helped orchestrate the delayed release of the hostages.
The delayed hostage release (the October surprise) is believed to be the main factor leading to Carter's defeat and Reagan's victory.