Yves here. This is not pretty, to put it mildly. This is not Steve Bannon speaking. The Project 2025 chief is the head of the Heritage Foundation, which once was a respectable if hard core conservative organization. A right wing contact agreed this statement was disconcerting, since one aim of Project 2025 was to develop lists of potential Trump Administration members who would not sandbag him, and not to go around rabble-rousing.
By Jake Johnson, staff writer at Common Dreams. Originally published at Common Dreams
The president of the right-wing group spearheading Project 2025 raised the specter of violence Tuesday against those who refuse to capitulate to what he characterized as “the second American Revolution” ushered in by presumptive GOP nominee and would-be authoritarian Donald Trump.
Kevin Roberts, head of the Heritage Foundation, said in an appearance on “Real America’s Voice” that the coming “revolution” will “remain bloodless if the left allows it to be”—a thinly veiled threat against those who resist the far-right’s efforts to seize power.
Trump said in April that whether there is violence surrounding the 2024 presidential election “depends” on the “fairness” of the contest and the outcome.
Watch Roberts’ remarks:
#Project2025 architect Kevin Roberts makes it clear: @Heritage is no longer a think tank.
It's a terror group.
"We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be." pic.twitter.com/4KHbX7oLle
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) July 3, 2024
“We are going to win. We’re in the process of taking this country back,” declared Roberts, who has said Project 2025 is “institutionalizing Trumpism” in preparation for a possible victory in November.
The Heritage Foundation president also hailed as “vital” the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision earlier this week bestowing what analysts and critics described as king-like powers on the presidency—powers that Trump is already planning to exploit.
Project 2025, a sweeping 922-page document, provides Trump with a detailed blueprint to advance his far-right agenda, including by purging career federal civil servants and replacing them with loyalists and centralizing power in the executive branch.
Kim Lane Scheppele, a professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton University, has called Project 2025 “a blueprint for autocracy,” characterizing it as “a direct copy of the plan that Viktor Orban used to take over the Hungarian government in 2010.”
“If it is carried out, Project 2025 will concentrate huge power in the hands of the president, giving him the power to control the whole federal government at his whim,” Scheppele added.
Scheppele’s assessment echoed that of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, which warned in an analysis published late last year that “the entire project is devoted to aggrandizing executive power by centralizing authority in the presidency, and a key aspect of democratic backsliding is viewing opposition elements as attempting to destroy the ‘real’ community, an essential aspect to quashing dissent.”
“Project 2025 paints progressives and liberals as outside acceptable politics, and not just ideological opponents, but inherently anti-American and ‘replacing American values,'” the analysis said. “Targeting vulnerable communities is a core tenet of Project 2025. Project 2025 is very clearly on a path to Christian nationalism as well as authoritarianism.”
First thing on the agenda should be a new Operation Warp Speed for a nasal treatment for Covid for the whole world. I wonder who is game enough to be Mr Trump’s Chief of Staff this time ?
America is completing the process of doing to itself what it has long done to other countries, friend, foe or bystander: Subverting the entire structure of government.
Do not be surprised when the extreme right and left proudly publish what they intend to do. Revolutions down the ages have had this out in the open aspect. Try to read “Mein Kampf” a little and you discover that the Austrian Corporal was open about his plans. Lenin and Trotsky were quite prolific publicists for their revolution. The American Founding Oligarchs spent years writing and publishing on the subject of their plans to separate from England.
So, take this ‘Plan’ seriously. These “patriots” will try and do exactly what they declare. There is nothing so dangerous as a ‘True Believer.’
At this point, I am sadly coming to the conclusion that the only effective way to remove ‘money’ and its attendant corruptions from American politics is through armed struggle.
Stay safe. Remain eternally vigilant.
Good advice. Dying empires are ever so dangerous before they eventually get reborn as a charming tourist attraction.
Do the spooks approve of this project?
Inquiring minds, etc.