Pro-Trump Project 2025 leader suggests there will be a new American Revolution
- Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ call for revolution and vague reference to violence has unnerved some Democrats
The leader of a conservative think tank orchestrating plans for a massive overhaul of the US federal government in the event of a Republican presidential win said that the country is in the midst of a “second American Revolution” that will be bloodless “if the left allows it to be”.
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts made the comments on Tuesday on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, adding that Republicans are “in the process of taking this country back”.
Democrats are “apoplectic right now” because the right is winning, Roberts told former US congressman Dave Brat, one of the podcast’s guest hosts as Bannon is serving a four-month prison term. “And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Roberts’ remarks shed light on how a group that promises to have significant influence over a possible second term for former president Donald Trump is thinking about this moment in American politics.
The Heritage Foundation is spearheading Project 2025, a sweeping road map for a new Republican administration that includes plans for dismantling aspects of the federal government and ousting thousands of civil servants in favour of Trump loyalists who will carry out a hard-right agenda without complaint.