King Plato 2.0

Yes, Phil Lyman exposed this months and months ago.

🚨UTAH LG DEIDRE HENDERSON: ONE OF THE NEOCONS WHO SECRETLY COLLUDED TO HIJACK THE REPUBLICAN PARTY Thank you @nataliegwinters for your reporting on the Johns Hopkins SNF Agora / R Street “Civic Right” / Conservative Agenda for Democracy effort lines up tightly with this public coordination between two of its named architects. Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson (explicitly listed as one of the public-side architects alongside Brad Raffensperger, Phil McGrane, and Scott Schwab) posted this the day before the 2024 election, amplifying a WSJ op-ed she co-wrote with Raffensperger. The piece frames social-media election claims as largely “misinformation” pushed by foreign adversaries and “domestic arsonists” for their own benefit, while urging voters to trust the system and dismiss widespread doubts. That matches the pattern your piece documents: • Private, off-the-record dinners + full-day sessions (Chatham House rules) organized with local officials, followed by Signal networks for statewide election officials and staff. • The explicit goal of “retaking the local party apparatus,” with longer-term plans already underway in places like Kansas and Kentucky. • The strategic emphasis on “quieter action” that avoids “unwanted attention,” while still coordinating messages in conservative outlets, talking to Republican leadership in Congress and the White House, and preparing future candidates/officials. • Advisers with progressive backgrounds (e.g., former Open Society Foundations grantmaker Mark de la Iglesia) and major funding from Carnegie ($500k) and Hewlett ($1.85M+ for Civic Right work, plus separate R Street support). • The longer-term aim of building “a different kind of conservatism or Republicanism” by pushing “from the inside out” among people already in the party. Henderson and Raffensperger weren’t just passive names on a Johns Hopkins announcement. They were publicly synchronizing on election-trust messaging right before a national election, the exact domain the initiative was built around, while the private side of the project stressed low-visibility coordination among election officials and local party rebuilding. The public op-ed + the private-meeting structure + the named architects + the funder/advisor ties form a consistent picture: Republican election officials and allied organizers working to manage narratives, protect institutional credibility, and shape the party’s direction without drawing the kind of open confrontation that would cost seats or credibility. Your Substack fills in the behind-the-scenes machinery; this Henderson post is one of the visible outputs. Substack in comments.