It’s Eve. This is not pretty, to say the least. This is not Steve Bannon. The head of Project 2025 is the head of the Heritage Foundation, which was once a hard-line conservative organization, and he is now its president. Even right-wing insiders agreed that this statement was disconcerting, since one of the aims of Project 2025 was to compile a list of potential members of the Trump administration who would not obstruct or abet Trump.
By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams staff writer. A common dream
Right-wing group leaders take the lead Project 2025 On Tuesday, Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, stoked threats of violence against those who refuse to submit to the “Second American Revolution” he has launched. Authoritarian wannabe Donald Trump.
Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, said: Said Speaking on Real American Voices, Trump said the coming “revolution” would “remain bloodless if the left lets it,” an implicit threat to those who resist the far-right’s attempts to seize power.
Trump Said In April, he said whether there would be any violence over the 2024 presidential elections “will depend on” the “fairness” of the elections and their results.
Check out what Roberts said:
#Project2025 Architect Kevin Roberts states: @heritage It is no longer a think tank.
It’s a terrorist group.
“We are in the process of a second American revolution, but it will be a bloodless one if the left allows it.” pic.twitter.com/4KHbX7oLle
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) July 3, 2024
“We will win. We are in the process of taking back this country,” Roberts declared. Said Project 2025 is “institutionalizing Trumpism” in preparation for victory in November.
The Heritage Foundation president also hailed as “pivotal” a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this week that analysts and critics have called “vital.” Kingly power Regarding his powers as president, Trump Already planning to exploit.
Project 2025, a wide-ranging 922 page documenthas given Trump a detailed blueprint for pursuing a far-right agenda. Purge of career federal officials They then replace them with loyal supporters and concentrate power in the executive branch.
Kim Lane Scheppell, a professor of sociology and international relations at Princeton University, It is called It characterizes Project 2025 as a “blueprint for dictatorship” and a “direct copy of the plan used by Viktor Orbán to take over the Hungarian government in 2010.”
“If implemented, Project 2025 would concentrate enormous power in the hands of the president, giving him complete control over the entire federal government,” Scheppele added.
Scheppell’s assessment is consistent with that of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. Warned “The entire plan is dedicated to strengthening executive power by concentrating it in the hands of the president,” an analysis published late last year said. Democracy in retreat They see opponents as trying to destroy ‘real’ community, and this is a key element in suppressing dissent.”
“Project 2025 portrays progressives and liberals as an unacceptable politics, not just ideological opponents, but inherently anti-American and ‘replacing American values,'” the analysis states. “Targeting vulnerable communities is a core tenet of Project 2025. Project 2025 is clearly on a path towards Christian nationalism and authoritarianism.”
