Tag Archives: Kevin Roberts

“You know, ultimately, we’re proud of the work. You know, I don’t want to bury the lede, but for two or three months as the left succeeded in mischaracterizing it, I mean, literally everything they said, it wasn’t fun. I mean, people threatened Heritage, they threatened to burn us down, all this kind of stuff, but I want to drive …

“I say that unless they end the implementation of the woke mind virus, and if they continue to live off the teats of government — through research grants, through participating in Title IV federal student loans and grants — then it’s perfectly appropriate, as the Vice President-elect said in his senatorial campaign, for the federal government to seize their endowments. …

The Guardian reports: A new book by the chief architect of Project 2025, a hugely controversial policy plan for a second Trump term, repeatedly employs imagery of fire and burning, including calling for rightwingers to “burn away the rot” of American institutions and organizations deemed opposed to conservative aims. The news comes after a White House address on Thursday, two …

The Christian Post reports: Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts warned Americans in a Friday press call that Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president of the United States, is the most “anti-faith” presidential candidate in history and that her administration would lead to Christians losing their freedom to worship. Roberts described Harris as “the most anti-faith, anti-religion presidential …

The Washington Post reports: The former director of the right-wing policy and personnel blueprint known as Project 2025 is condemning what he sees as “violent rhetoric” from Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts and calling on Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance to retract the foreword he wrote for Roberts’s book. “If we’re going to ask the left to tone it down, …

The Guardian reports: The man behind Project 2025, the rightwing policy manifesto that includes calls for a sharp increase in immigrant deportations if Donald Trump is elected, told university colleagues about two decades ago that he had killed a neighborhood dog with a shovel because it was barking and disturbing his family, according to former colleagues who spoke to the …

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: With even Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump distancing himself from the Project 2025 manifesto, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts doubled down on the controversial blueprint for a Republican presidency on Thursday, saying that if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the election, “we’re going to have a press conference outside the White House announcing Project 2028.” …

The Guardian reports: A JD Vance-introduced book by a leader of Project 2025, the vast and controversial hardline rightwing plan for a second Trump administration, will be delayed until after the 2024 election. “There’s a time for writing, reading, and book tours – and a time to put down the books and go fight like hell to take back our …

The Guardian reports: Kevin Roberts, the Heritage Foundation president and the architect of Project 2025, the conservative thinktank’s road map for a second Trump presidency, has close ties and receives regular spiritual guidance from an Opus Dei-led center in Washington DC, a hub of activity for the radical and secretive Catholic group. Roberts acknowledged in a speech last September that …

“I am an early American historian and love the Constitution. That Supreme Court ruling yesterday on immunity is vital, and it’s vital for a lot of reasons. “If people in the audience are looking for something to read over Independence Day weekend, in addition to rereading the Declaration of Independence, read Hamilton’s number 70 because there, along with some other …

“Abortion’s not healthcare. I find it really interesting, if not worse, that you wouldn’t support the change of the [Health and Human Services] department’s name to the Department of Life. I thought we were all in support of life. Why aren’t we talking about the people who are supporting legislation that abortion can happen until three days after the person’s …

“We’re not just talking about it. We have the plan. In fact, literally sitting on my desk is the draft of that plan. And I’ll be doing — reading through that today. And so, let me be really, really blunt. We will eliminate the Department of Education piece by piece, block by block. “It has to be part of the …