Project 2025 Architect Signals Bloodshed If Left Opposes Trump-Led 'Revolution'
Project 2025 Architect Signals Bloodshed If Left Opposes Trump-Led 'Revolution'
The "second American Revolution" now underway will "remain bloodless," said the president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation, "if the left allows it to be."
The president of the right-wing group spearheading Project 2025 raised the specter of violence Tuesday against those who refuse to capitulate to what he characterized as "the second American Revolution" ushered in by presumptive GOP nominee and would-be authoritarian Donald Trump.
Kevin Roberts, head of the Heritage Foundation, said in an appearance on "Real America's Voice" 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.
Trump said in April that whether there is violence surrounding the 2024 presidential election "depends" on the "fairness" of the contest and the outcome.
Watch Roberts' remarks:
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1808507354310209711
"We are going to win. We're in the process of taking this country back," declared Roberts, who has said Project 2025 is "institutionalizing Trumpism" in preparation for a possible victory in November.
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Call me naive if you like but that doesn't seem like a direct threat to me. It sounds like him playing into the violent antifa caricature of a leftist they're always going on about. He's saying they're going to win peacably but are prepared to defend their liberties if the evil leftists force them to. At least I think that's how most of the people he's trying to reach with those comments would interpret them.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think guys like him have any problem with using violence as a means to achieve their goals, and this is very likely part of the plan to plant the seeds of violence in people's minds. I just don't think this is him being so blunt as to state that they want to execute political opponents outright. I could certainly be wrong about that but I don't think that will happen until they're already doing it.
Yep. You're naive.