The leader of right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 recently unveiled a new plan for life in America following a "second American Revolution."
The remarks by Roberts come shortly after he appeared on Steve Bannon's WarRoom podcast this week and spoke about how a recent ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on presidential immunity could prompt a second American Revolution.
He said the Supreme Court's judgment on Monday, that presidents are immune from prosecution for "official acts, will free them up to introduce policy without having to "triple guess, every decision they're making in their official capacity."
On Wednesday, Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, which organized the Project 2025 organization, shared a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter, where he wrote, "Americans in 2024 are in the process of carrying out the Second American Revolution to take power back from the elites and despotic bureaucrats. These patriots are committed to peaceful revolution at the ballot box.
"Like the First American Revolution, the second began when a corrupt ruling class sought to overthrow the existing institutions of American life. But whereas the British passed laws and imposed colonial officials, our elites have been more subtle," Roberts wrote.
"The good news is, patriots across the country are coming together, organizing the groundwork of resistance, and fighting back. We will save the institutions that we can, start new ones wherever needed, and unapologetically destroy those that are hostile to human flourishing," Roberts added.
In a statement to Newsweek, Roberts echoed the remarks he made on X and said, "Unfortunately, it's the Left that has a long history of violence, so it's up to them to allow a peaceful transfer of power. As we saw in 2020, organized groups on the Left have the capacity to carry out violent riots, take over cities, and weaponize taxpayer-funded agencies to target their political opponents."
Roberts outlined how the ruling might help transform the federal government with conservative policy proposals, should Donald Trump win the White House in November and adopt Project 2025. The Project 2025 website states that it is a presidential transition project seeking to "build on four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative administration: a policy agenda, personnel, training, and a 180-day playbook."
"In spite of all this nonsense from the left, we are going to win. We're in the process of taking this country back," Roberts said. "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be."
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