Yves here. This is not a pretty sight, to say the least. This is not Steve Bannon speaking. The head of Project 2025 is the head of the Heritage Foundation, which used to be a respectable, if very extreme, conservative organization. A right-wing contact acknowledged that this statement was disconcerting, because one of the goals of Project 2025 was to compile lists of potential members of the Trump administration who would not sabotage it, not to wreak havoc.
By Jake Johnson, Editor at Common Dreams. Originally published on Common dreams
The president of the far-right group at the origin Project 2025 raised the specter of violence Tuesday against those who refuse to capitulate to what he called a “second American Revolution” ushered in by the presumptive GOP nominee and so-called authoritarian Donald Trump.
Kevin Roberts, Director of the Heritage Foundation, said In an appearance on “Real America’s Voice,” he declared 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.
Asset said in April that whether violence could occur in the 2024 presidential election would “depend” on the “fairness” of the vote and its outcome.
Look at Roberts’ remarks:
#Project2025 Architect Kevin Roberts explains: @Heritage is no longer a think tank.
It is a terrorist group.
“We are in the midst of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it.” pic.twitter.com/4KHbX7oLle
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) July 3, 2024
“We’re going to win. We’re taking this country back,” said Roberts, who said Project 2025 is about “institutionalizing Trumpism” in anticipation of a possible victory in November.
The Heritage Foundation president also hailed as “vital” the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision earlier this week, granting what analysts and critics have described as royal powers on the presidency – the powers that Trump holds is already planning to exploit.
Project 2025, a major project 922-page documentprovides Trump with a detailed plan to advance his far-right agenda, including purge career federal civil servants and replace them with loyalists and centralize power in the executive branch.
Kim Lane Scheppele, professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton University, has called Project 2025 is “a blueprint for autocracy,” calling it “a direct copy of the plan Viktor Orban used to take control of the Hungarian government in 2010.”
“If implemented, Project 2025 will concentrate enormous power in the hands of the president, giving him the power to control the entire federal government at will,” Scheppele added.
Scheppele’s assessment echoes that of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, which warned In an analysis published late last year, “the entire project is devoted to expanding executive power by centralizing authority in the presidency, and a key aspect of democratic decline believes that opposition elements are trying to destroy the “real” community, an essential aspect of crushing dissent.
“The 2025 Project paints progressives and liberals as politically unacceptable, not just ideological opponents, but inherently anti-American, replacing American values,” the analysis says. “Targeting vulnerable communities is a core tenet of the 2025 Project. The 2025 Project is very clearly on the path to Christian nationalism as well as authoritarianism.”
