Heritage Foundation ‘Political Violence Left’s Leading Party’ Republican Revolution ‘Ejecting Public Officials Who Oppose Right’

Heritage Foundation ‘Political Violence Left’s Leading Party’ Republican Revolution ‘Ejecting Public Officials Who Oppose Right’

 

The Chairman of the Heritage Foundation announced that Trump's US presidential election strategy is to 'evict right-wing opposition officials from the federal government through a Republican revolution', saying 'political violence on the left is the beginning'.
Kevin Roberts, chairman of the Heritage Foundation, said on the 3rd, "Most political violence over the past 25 years has been initiated by the left," and said former President Trump's victory in the presidential election was a result of the Republican Party's "ambitious policy plan" to "eliminating right-wing opposing officials from the federal government." A total overhaul of the federal government was proposed under 'Project 2025'.
Fuller, Asia Chairman of the Heritage Foundation, came to Seoul before the Korean presidential election and met with candidate Yoon Seok-yeol in person, and contacted him at least three times after he was elected. He advised the introduction of the Reagan system, in which a few political parties led the strategy of neutralizing Congress and laws by presidential decree, which most of them became a reality. done.
The AP said on the 19th, “Roberts’ remarks came in response to a question about his remarks earlier this month in which he said the United States is in the midst of ‘a second American revolution that will remain bloodless if the left allows it.’” He told reporters on the 18th, He said he considers himself a historian of the American Revolution and that his comments about the second revolution were a reference to the 'ambitious policy plans' the Republican Party has if former President Trump wins the 2024 presidential election."
The Heritage Foundation's 'Project 2025' for Trump's return to power appeared on Steve Bannon's podcast 'War Room' on the 2nd, and said that the Republican Party is "in the process of taking this country back." “There is,” he revealed.
While strategist Bannon was serving a four-month prison sentence, Roberts told one of the guest hosts on the podcast, former U.S. Representative Dave Brat (Republican), "The Democrats are defecting now because the right is winning." “So I want to fully circle this response and encourage you with a few words that we are in the process of a second American Revolution, and it will remain bloodless if the left allows it.” announced Trump's return to power program.
In response to Rep. Roberts' remarks, the AP said, “It shows how a group expected to exert significant influence on the possibility of a second term for former President Trump thinks about this moment in American politics,” adding, “The Heritage Foundation is a new Republican.” “He leads Project 2025, a broad roadmap for the administration that includes a plan to dismantle many aspects of the federal government and oust thousands of government employees in favor of Trump loyalists who will carry out their hard-right agenda without complaint.” It was reported on the program on the 4th.
“This is creepy,” former Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson wrote on the social platform X. “Their idea of ​​a second American Revolution is to undo the first.”
James Singer, a spokesman for President Biden's re-election campaign, said in a statement that day, "248 years ago tomorrow, America declared independence from a tyrannical king, and now Donald Trump and his allies want to make him independent at our expense." and his allies dream of a violent revolution to destroy the very concept of America."
The New York Times said that Roberts, chairman of the Heritage Foundation, is a ‘potential candidate for Trump’s chief of staff.’
Heritage Foundation President Roberts said in an emailed statement on the 17th that Americans are "in the process of waging a second American Revolution to take back power from elites and authoritarian bureaucrats," reiterating his earlier remarks on the podcast. “These patriots are committed to a peaceful revolution at the ballot box, but unfortunately, the left has a long history of violence, and it is up to them to allow a peaceful transfer of power.”
Chairman Roberts went on to refer to the protests that took place after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, saying that the protests “some of them erupted into crime, vandalism and violence,” and that Trump supporters were trying to force his loss to President Biden. Citing the example of the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, which he was trying to overturn, he said, “Democrats accused Republican lawmakers of violence.”
Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, called the Heritage Foundation's "second American revolution" comments "a little scary, but also explanatory." “Roberts, the Heritage Foundation, and their allies in Project 2025 want to reshape and fundamentally change American society,” he told the AP.
‘Project 2025’ is a 1,000-page playbook calling for broad changes in the federal government, including rolling back protections for the LGBTQ community and infusing Christianity more deeply into society.
Regarding the Heritage Foundation's 'leading left-wing political violence', the AP said, based on the record of research on extremist activity in the United States, "Right-wing extremists are just as likely to commit violent acts as people motivated by Islamic extremism." Revealing the results of the study, it was reported on the 19th that “left-wing extremists ranked a distant third.”
Professor Gary Laffrey, co-author of the study on extremist activity at the University of Maryland, said that over the past two years, a team of researchers from four universities have been examining court records and other data related to 3,500 extremists active in the United States from 1948 to 2022, identifying them as left-wing extremists. Divided into three groups, right-wing and Islamic extremist, some in the database committed violent acts while others raised money for extremist groups, volunteered or made statements supporting extremist groups. It was revealed to the AP that it was occupied.
Professor Lapri continued, “Violence by left-wing groups has been decreasing in the decades since the violence of radical groups such as the Weather Underground, a far-left militant group founded in 1969,” and “In recent years, there has been an increase in violence by right-wing groups.” “Violence has far outpaced violence by left-wing groups, and there are very few left-wing cases these days,” he told the AP.
Professor Lapri is the founding director of the National Consortium for Terrorism Research and Counter-Terrorism, which studies extremism and political violence.