Yes. For instance https://www.brennancenter.org/ recently did a tabletop exercise where they looked for all the worst things that could happen during a trump second term and looked for ways to stop them from happening. See (or rather hear) https://youtu.be/9SlnDvGHhBw
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I mean this is a good idea, but the opposite of the question stated. Are there no think tanks to implement liberal solutions as opposed to stopping or fixing conservatives policies.
Why can't we scheme as well as conservatives?
My brain skipped as I read Brennan and tabletop in the same sentence and jumped to Dropout/Dimension 20.
Not American but - Freedom From Religion Foundation? Love their commercials featuring Ronald Reagan’s son.
“I’m Ron Reagan, unabashed atheist, not afraid of burning in hell.”
I mean, the ACLU
Open Society Foundations, Center for American Progress, stuff like that, I guess.
As I see it, they are more active on idpol and immigration than the economy and the issues that were decisive in the US election this time around.
Immigration was one of the most decisive issues...
Not for the side OSF is on.
Conservatives fear immigration, liberals largely don't care. A small amount of people care deeply, providing a good enemy to bash who are sufficiently few to not cause issues but also sufficiently loud to keep the flames going.
I think the real question are there any think-tanks that are willing to fight dirty to get liberal policy like the heritage foundation does for fascism.
WE are the liberal think tanks.
But nobody's listening.
Seconding Center for American Progress. There are also a ton of issue specific organizations and professional societies that are non partisan, but focus on improving policies that tend to be left leaning. For example Planned Parenthood is technically a nonpartisan nonprofit, but many other health or environment related non-profits have a policy team that tries to advance their cause the best they know how. Being nonpartisan means they aren't limited to speaking with one side or the other and can keep a drum beat going on their issues regardless of the political winds. These orgs could use your donations now more than ever.
These orgs could use your donations now more than ever.
As well as your volunteer time
Think tanks are the fronts for oligarchs to provide an academic veneer for the extraction regime they are running via the government.
These clowns will drum science and white papers for whatever owners need, fake news will then shill it until peasants larp as their own thought.
This is the crux of the policy loop, people make great careers larping this shit especially with proper "education"
I am sure some of them shill something useful for a pleb but I treated them as a hostile propaganda actor unless proven otherwise.
Somebody pays for these clowns to be vomiting their works... It ain't the peasants
Okay, then what is the process for creating good policy?
The Brookings Institute
Some good answers already. To add, in the media sphere Pod Save America and their related branches is a liberal progressive media organization that tries to run counter to the conservative media ecosystem, trying to ride the line between policy wonkery and approachability.
George Lakoff is practically a one-man think tank