NonilexOct 16, 2024
#Project2025 ex-director condemns #HeritageFoundation president’s ‘violent rhetoric’

#PaulDans, the fmr dir of the #RightWing #policy & personnel blueprint known as Project 2025 is condemning what he sees as “#violent rhetoric” from Heritage Foundation President #KevinRoberts & calling on Republican vice-presidential nominee #JDVance to retract the foreword he wrote for Roberts’s book.

#PoliticalViolence #FarRight #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/16/project-2025-heritage-violent-rhetoric/
Project 2025 ex-director condemns Heritage president’s ‘violent rhetoric’

Paul Dans criticized Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts for “violent rhetoric” and urged JD Vance to repudiate his foreword to Roberts’s book.

The Washington Post
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“If we’re going to ask the left to tone it down, we have to do our part as well,” #PaulDans, who led #Project2025 until July, said in an interview. “There’s no place for this sort of violent rhetoric & bellicose taunting, especially in light of the fact that *President* Trump has now been subject to not one but two assassination attempts.”

#PoliticalViolence #FarRight #HeritageFoundation #KevinRoberts #JDVance
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#KevinRoberts, who took over Washington’s preeminent *conservative think tank* in 2021, declared a “second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be,” during an appearance on a pro-Trump podcast in July, before a gunman attempted to assassinate #Trump at a rally in PA. That same month, Roberts started marketing his book, whose cover proposed “Burning Down Washington” & featured an image of a match.

#PoliticalViolence #FarRight #Project2025 #HeritageFoundation

Oct 16, 2024 at 2:46pmWeb
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#KevinRoberts declined to be interviewed. #HeritageFoundation spox Noah Weinrich said Roberts’s remark on the podcast was meant to warn of left-wing #violence [despite overwhelming evidence that the majority of #PoliticalViolence is committed by the #FarRight]. “Any attempt to mischaracterize Dr. Roberts’ comments as supportive of violence is grotesque & completely contrary to the observation he was making,” he said.

#Project2025 #PaulDans #JDVance

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#KevinRoberts used similar language in online promotional materials for his book. In early versions of the text reviewed by The Washington Post, Roberts called for “a political revolution” to “overthrow today’s incarnation of the ruling class,” argued the nation “must be destroyed & replaced,” & supported the elimination of institutions including the Ivy League, the #FBI, Fairfax County #PublicSchools & the #BoyScouts.
#PoliticalViolence #FarRight #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #Trump #JDVance
Show threadJi FuFeb 14, 2025
@Nonilex what's wrong with the boy scouts?
Show threadNonilexFeb 14, 2025
@Fu probably has something to do with opposing civic mindedness
Show threadWizard Bear (💉x8 + 😷)Oct 16, 2024
@Nonilex The #FarRight is constantly promoting violence, then blaming the left for what they themselves are pushing. #StochasticTerrorsm We seriously need to get a 🌊 now. #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz