Ex-Project 2025 Leader Slams Heritage Foundation President For “Violent Rhetoric And Bellicose Taunting”

The Washington Post reports:

The former director of the right-wing policy and personnel blueprint known as Project 2025 is condemning what he sees as “violent rhetoric” from Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts and calling on Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance to retract the foreword he wrote for Roberts’s book.

“If we’re going to ask the left to tone it down, we have to do our part as well,” Paul Dans, who led Project 2025 until July, said in an interview. “There’s no place for this sort of violent rhetoric and bellicose taunting, especially in light of the fact that President Trump has now been subject to not one but two assassination attempts.”

Roberts, 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.

Read the full article. Of note, Dans recently appeared on the podcast of far-right cultist Tim Pool, who regularly calls for civil war. It’s likely that Dans was forced out of Project 2025 in an attempt to protect Trump from the backlash.

Fun Fact: “Dawn’s Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save America” was the original working title of Roberts book..

It was changed to, “Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America”

He replaced “Burning Down” w the softer, “Taking Back”

We’re not fooled 😡

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