Appearing on the newly-imprisoned Steve Bannon‘s “War Room” podcast, Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation — the group behind the far-right policy agenda known as Project 2025 — heralded the Supreme Court’s recent immunity ruling in favor of Donald Trump as a signal that the U.S. is in the throes of its “second American Revolution.”
Amid celebration that the conservative-majority court granted former President Donald Trump immunity for some of his acts in office, Roberts added a portentous warning to listeners
“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,” he said.
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Project 2025, or as it is formally called, the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, is a 920-page tome that seeks to establish a conservative-rooted agenda for the coming presidency and beyond.
It proposes significant bureaucratic upheaval and the redefining of the executive branch that would vastly expand that branch’s powers while rewriting existing laws and policies around numerous issues including civil rights, immigration, education, the economy and even the death penalty, as The Intercept recently reported. Project 2025, which is equipped with a 180-day playbook for the next conservative president to follow from their first day in office, also proposes, for example, vast purges within the federal government of public civil servants to be replaced with hand-picked political appointees under scant oversight.
Though Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign has not claimed Project 2025 as its formal agenda for a next possible term in the White House, many of its contributors are former Trump White House officials like the currently imprisoned Peter Navarro, a champion of Trump’s bogus voter fraud claims in 2020, and Ken Cuccinelli, formerly Trump’s director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services who has, since 2007, reportedly referred to immigrants as “invaders.”
The transition plan repeatedly invokes Trump’s administration as the blueprint for its vast streamlining efforts.
“If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration. This is the goal of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project,” the Project 2025 website states.
Critics of the project, like Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who also sat on the now-defunct House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, have described Project 2025 as a “far-right roadmap for a ‘post-constitutional’ America” that “would make January 6th extremism a governing ideology.”
“They plan to centralize all power in the presidency, exercise political control over the Justice Department, implant Christian white nationalism throughout the government, strip tens of thousands of professional government workers of their civil service protections, create an army of political loyalists and sycophants in government, ban abortion nationwide, set up immigrant detention camps, deport millions of people, repeal all climate safety regulations and exact criminal revenge against reporters, judges and Democrats,” he said in June after he several other congressional lawmakers formed a task force aimed at stopping Project 2025 from coming to fruition should Trump or another conservative candidate return to office.
When that legislative task force was set up, Roberts said opponents to Project 2025 are “more than welcome to try” to stop it.
“We will not give up and we will win,” he said, according to The Associated Press.
There was more of this bubbling over on Tuesday in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision.
“We’re in the process of taking this country back. No one in the audience should be despairing. No one should be discouraged. We ought to be really encouraged by what happened … And in spite of all the injustice, which, of course, friends and audience of this show, of our friend Steve know, we are going to prevail,” Roberts said.
The Heritage Foundation president continued by saying that the immunity decision — which, as Law&Crime reported, featured a scorching dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor declaring that her colleagues in the majority had ensured that “the president is now a king above the law” — was vital to the success of the American presidency.
Any president that would have to “second guess or triple guess every decision they’re making in their official capacity,” Roberts said on July 2, would mean America could not be a “republic” as founders like Alexander Hamilton intended.
That was when on the “War Room” podcast Roberts issued the ominous warning about the “revolution” being “bloodless” seemingly so long as those opposed to the agenda fell in line:
You and I have both been parts of faculties and faculty senates and understand that the left has taken over our institutions. The reason that they are apoplectic right now, the reason that so many anchors on MSNBC, for example, are losing their minds daily is because our side is winning.
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.
A report by the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center at the University of Nebraska Omaha that reviewed all federally investigated threats made toward public officials in the last decade determined that 2022 and 2023 featured the highest number of threats ever made. The 2023 report stated that this was a reflection of a “growing public acceptance of and tolerance for political violence — attitudes that threaten U.S. institutions and weaken democracy.”