{"id":34665,"date":"2024-07-04T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T19:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=34665"},"modified":"2024-07-04T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T19:45:10","slug":"project-2025-architect-signals-bloodshed-if-left-opposes-trump-led-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/project-2025-architect-signals-bloodshed-if-left-opposes-trump-led-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 2025 Architect Signals Bloodshed If Left Opposes Trump-Led &#8216;Revolution&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/heritage-foundation-president-kevin-roberts.jpg?id=52540481&amp;width=1200&amp;height=400&amp;quality=90&amp;coordinates=0%2C271%2C0%2C581\" alt=\"Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts speaks at an event in Washington, D.C. on October 19, 2022.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo: Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The &#8220;second American Revolution&#8221; now underway will &#8220;remain bloodless,&#8221; said the president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation, &#8220;if the left allows it to be.&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/jake-johnson\">JAKE JOHNSON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jul 03, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<a href=\"https:\/\/giving.commondreams.org\/-\/XKQWGZVR\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president of the right-wing group spearheading&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/project-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Project 2025<\/a>&nbsp;raised the specter of violence Tuesday against those who refuse to capitulate to what he characterized as &#8220;the second American Revolution&#8221; ushered in by presumptive GOP nominee and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/supreme-court-donald-trump-immunity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">would-be authoritarian<\/a>&nbsp;Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin Roberts, head of the Heritage Foundation,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/project-2025\/heritage-foundation-president-celebrates-supreme-court-immunity-decision-we-are\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in an appearance on &#8220;Real America&#8217;s Voice&#8221; that the coming &#8220;revolution&#8221; will &#8220;remain bloodless if the left allows it to be&#8221;\u2014a thinly veiled threat against those who resist the far-right&#8217;s efforts to seize power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-asked-violence-loses-november-election-biden-depends\/story?id=109787140\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in April that whether there is violence surrounding the 2024 presidential election &#8220;depends&#8221; on the &#8220;fairness&#8221; of the contest and the outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch Roberts&#8217; remarks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The president of the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, which is behind Project 2025:<br><br>&quot;We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g0oKslNwkA\">pic.twitter.com\/g0oKslNwkA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylegriffin1\/status\/1808507354310209711?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are going to win. We&#8217;re in the process of taking this country back,&#8221; declared Roberts, who has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/21\/magazine\/heritage-foundation-kevin-roberts.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>&nbsp;Project 2025 is &#8220;institutionalizing Trumpism&#8221; in preparation for a possible victory in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Heritage Foundation president also hailed as &#8220;vital&#8221; the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s decision earlier this week bestowing what analysts and critics described as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/sotomayor-immunity-dissent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">king-like powers<\/a>&nbsp;on the presidency\u2014powers that Trump is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/supreme-court-donald-trump-immunity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">already planning to exploit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Project 2025, a sweeping&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/static.project2025.org\/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">922-page document<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/static.project2025.org\/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\"><\/a>, provides Trump with a detailed blueprint to advance his far-right agenda, including by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/trump-schedule-f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">purging career federal civil servants<\/a>&nbsp;and replacing them with loyalists and centralizing power in the executive branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim Lane Scheppele, a professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton University, has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/10\/opinion\/trump-donors-project-2025.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a>&nbsp;Project 2025 &#8220;a blueprint for autocracy,&#8221; characterizing it as &#8220;a direct copy of the plan that Viktor Orban used to take over the Hungarian government in 2010.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If it is carried out, Project 2025 will concentrate huge power in the hands of the president, giving him the power to control the whole federal government at his whim,&#8221; Scheppele added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scheppele&#8217;s assessment echoed that of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/project-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned<\/a>&nbsp;in an analysis published late last year that &#8220;the entire project is devoted to aggrandizing executive power by centralizing authority in the presidency, and a key aspect of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1146%2Fannurev-polisci-050517-114628\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">democratic backsliding<\/a>&nbsp;is viewing opposition elements as attempting to destroy the &#8216;real&#8217; community, an essential aspect to quashing dissent.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Project 2025 paints progressives and liberals as outside acceptable politics, and not just ideological opponents, but inherently anti-American and &#8216;replacing American values,'&#8221; the analysis said. &#8220;Targeting vulnerable communities is a core tenet of Project 2025. Project 2025 is very clearly on a path to Christian nationalism as well as authoritarianism.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/jake-johnson\">JAKE JOHNSON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/jake-johnson\">Full Bio &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/trump-project-2025?utm_source=Common+Dreams&amp;utm_campaign=4c8e825043-Top+News%3A+Wed.+7%2F3%2F24&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-3b949b3e19-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D\">https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/trump-project-2025?utm_source=Common+Dreams&amp;utm_campaign=4c8e825043-Top+News%3A+Wed.+7%2F3%2F24&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-3b949b3e19-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts speaks at an event in Washington, D.C. on October 19, 2022.&nbsp; (Photo: Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images) The &#8220;second American Revolution&#8221; now underway will &#8220;remain bloodless,&#8221; said the president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation, &#8220;if the left allows it to be.&#8221; JAKE JOHNSON&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/project-2025-architect-signals-bloodshed-if-left-opposes-trump-led-revolution\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34666,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34665\/revisions\/34666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}