Elites with a “sense of superiority” are ruining Washington, despite being “mere equals of the workers who shower after work instead of before”, writes Kevin Roberts in the introduction to Project 2025, the conservative manifesto for a second Trump administration.
Roberts is a historian and the PhD-holding president of the Heritage Foundation, a premier Washington conservative thinktank that drafted the plans to dismantle and reorganize US government.
It’s the type of job where one would shower before work.
Roberts is working to align the right behind Trumpism and provide a nationalist manifesto, along with a database of vetted political appointees, for an incoming conservative administration. With Project 2025, the foundation wants to position itself as a policy and personnel force in the potential next Trump term, similar to how the thinktank proved critical to Ronald Reagan in 1981.
Whether it can have the pull it desires this time relies heavily on the whims of Trump himself.
“We need to understand what time it is in America. And right now, Donald Trump, whether someone likes it or not – I happen to like it – is the standard bearer for conservatives,” Roberts said recently on MSNBC. He has said the project is “institutionalizing Trumpism” and sets the course for the conservative movement’s policy aims for many years to come.
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Article URL : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jul/01/kevin-roberts-trump-heritage-foundation-project-2025