Kevin Roberts, the president of the right wing Heritage Foundation and an architect of Project 2025, said last year that a new American revolution will happen and “it will be bloodless if the left allows it to be.” And Roberts is a guest of the Republican Party of Orange County at a Chairman’s Reception dinner tonight hosted by OC GOP chair Will O’Neill. The dinner is at 6PM at The Park Club in Costa Mesa at 6PM.
When you consider just how much the House GOP’s budget revision will hurt OC, only the Kool Aid drinkers are going to be happy to hear Roberts tonight.
Rep. Dave Min spells out the damage this coming bill is going to be for Orange County:
More on Roberts from Politico from last summer:
Roberts’ remarks shed light on how a group that promises to have significant influence over a possible second term for former President Donald Trump is thinking about this moment in American politics. The Heritage Foundation is spearheading Project 2025, a sweeping road map for a new GOP administration that includes plans for dismantling aspects of the federal government and ousting thousands of civil servants in favor of Trump loyalists who will carry out a hard-right agenda without complaint.
His call for revolution and vague reference to violence also unnerved some Democrats who interpreted it as threatening.
Here’s Roberts bio:
Kevin D. Roberts, PhD, was named President of The Heritage Foundation in October 2021. He succeeded former Heritage President Kay C. James as the seventh President in the organization’s 50-year history. In September 2023, Roberts was named President of Heritage Action for America and serves both organizations in a joint role.
Roberts previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), an Austin-based nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute and the largest state think tank in the nation. Under Roberts’ leadership, TPPF more than doubled in size. He also expanded the Texas think tank’s influence nationwide, opening an office in Washington, D.C., so that TPPF research might better inform federal policy debates.
As President of The Heritage Foundation, Roberts will continue to lead policy research efforts on many of the issues he championed at TPPF, including education, health care, border security, election integrity, and more, and his leadership will also be critical in pushing back on the radical, socialist agenda being advanced by the Left at all levels of government. At a time when so many bad ideas are coming out of Washington, his experience advancing sound policy at the state and national levels will be vital.
“I’m grateful for the opportunity to lead The Heritage Foundation and honored the board selected me as its next President,” Roberts said. “Heritage has led the conservative movement with distinction and its policy solutions have improved the lives of our fellow citizens. I look forward to continuing this legacy and addressing the challenges we face today and in the future.
“Heritage is known throughout the conservative movement and policy community as a solutions factory. As a lifelong, movement conservative, I have always seen Heritage as the beacon of conservatism and of the American dream. In recent years, as I have worked with Heritage scholars on several issues, I came to appreciate Heritage’s critical role at this particular point in history. Coming from a state as free and prosperous as Texas, I’m eager to share the innovative ideas we developed and build on them.”
A lifelong educator, Roberts earned his PhD in American History from the University of Texas. After several years of teaching history at the collegiate level, Roberts in 2006 left the university to found John Paul the Great Academy, a co-ed, K-12 Catholic liberal arts school in Lafayette, Louisiana. Roberts served as the academy’s president and headmaster for seven years.
In 2013, he resigned from the academy to become President of Wyoming Catholic College. Under his leadership, the college adopted a policy of refusing to accept federal student loans and grants, lest it be forced to violate Catholic tenets. This independent stance led The New York Times to describe the school as being full of “cowboy Catholics.”
In addition to his doctorate, Roberts holds a master’s degree in History from Virginia Tech and a bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Roberts and his wife have four children.
A nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education institute, The Heritage Foundation is the nation’s premier conservative think tank. It is the most broadly supported think tank in the world, drawing support from more than 500,000 members. Heritage’s policy impact is also unrivaled, with the University of Pennsylvania’s annual report on think tanks recognizing Heritage three years in a row as the think tank with the most significant impact on public policy.
Get used to it. 4 more years. You can throw all the temper tantrums you want. Its just entertainment for us. Don’t stop.
Look at the market today; Trumpers are about to go down
We all know it’s cyclical.
Oh wait.. Dan dosent understand that the market is cyclical..
Wow. I guess you just picked a bad day to liquidate your retirement holdings..
Hey Dan, don’t tell anyone, but, the sky is falling.
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All those red state poor/red neck republicans are gonna be hurting soon. Trump & the Republicans don’t care about the average American. Alot of these people live paycheck to paycheck & are on government assistance. They don’t realize they voted against the party that truly wants to help people. Culture wars don’t help people with food & paying bills. Republicans only see them as useful idiots.
If culture wars don’t help people with food and paying bills, then why does the “ party that cares about people “ make it a centerpiece of their ideology? Dems are all about identity politics and Joe six pack who lives paycheck to paycheck is cheering on Trump as he proceeds to dismantle a leftist deep state that blows taxpayer money advancing leftist culture war initiatives. You have it backwards, Brian. That’s because you lost the ability to engage in critical thinking and accept the media promoted narratives and those of your party as fact.
Think again.
You have 4 years to go, Brian.
Let’s talk again in 4 years and see how it all shakes out.
I’m looking forward to every day.
Trump coldcocks the left every freakin day.. it’s truly inspiring and encouraging to watch
Hey Dan, buy on the dip.
Thank me later . The market will always rebound.
The performance of the market reflects the concerns of the
Globalist snakes that are worried about the continued ability to find cheap third world sources of labor to offshore their manufacturing to so they can continue to hollow out the American economy and reap massive profits and their ability to obtain cheap resources in countries with no environmental laws .
Trumps tariffs are designed to put a stop to the bleeding and restore the US to preeminence and punish countries that already tariff the shit out is.
The media refuses to discuss the tariffs we’re already in place by our “ trading partners” like Canada , which has imposed massive tariffs on a variety of of American goods, long before Trump took office
Trump is old &:hopefully will die soon.
Republicans are advancing right wing initiatives using tax payers funds as well.
The only difference Brian, is that the Republicans do it in full view of the American public, instead of all the stealth progressive bullshit that has been brought out into the light and exposed by DOGE, resulting in liberals scurrying around like so many cockroaches running for cover when the kitchen light comes on.
Partys over Brian.
Dems are leaderless, rudderless and adrift on a sea of irrelevancy and impotency.
“Threat To Democracy ®” – Not working.
” Convicted Felon ™” Not working.
” They will take your Social Security and Medicare! ® ” – Nobody believes you, Liars gonna lie..
“Elon is in it for personal gain! ®” – Not working, Brian.
” Trump is crashing the economy!” – No traction.
” The GOP owns the Government Shutdown ®” – Laughable.
Brian, please contact your therapist and make sure you have a standing appointment to dfeal with your TDS. You will need it for the next 4 years.
Kevin Roberts’ influence in the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 highlights the role of think tanks in shaping government policies. However, the plan to replace thousands of federal employees with Trump loyalists raises concerns about bureaucratic neutrality.
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Really? An Indonesian online Computer Science school? WTF…a new low.
Kevin D. Roberts’ leadership at The Heritage Foundation demonstrates significant influence on conservative policies in the U.S. However, initiatives like Project 2025 raise concerns about political balance and the sustainability of democracy.
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“Trump is old &:hopefully will die soon.”
I’m pretty sure you would have voted for Biden if your party had not pushed him out the door of the proverbial helicopter and and nominated a brainless empty pantsuit who cant put 3 words together coherently as his last minute replacement.
Don’t look now, Brian…your hypocrisy is showing.
At least I let you know. Most of your fellow libs would let you walk around with a booger hanging out of your nose and never say a word.
Who says Republicans don’t care a bout people… sheesh
An interesting perspective on the Dems voting for cloture yesterday.
I cannot deny I am pretty angry with Schumer. But the last sentence is pretty insightful. As I have told others. Politics is the constant art of the long game.
“In the longer term, there’s a fair chance that Donald Trump will be yesterday’s biggest loser. To start, we can find no reports that he’s actually signed the CR yet. That’s not unusual; the government doesn’t really “shut down” at 11:59 p.m. Friday, and so it’s common for a president to sign such legislation on Saturday morning. However, there have been occasions in the past where Trump was expected to sign a funding bill, and then changed his mind at the last moment. In fact, such a stunt led to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, 35 days from December 2018 to January 2019. It’s well within the realm of possibility Trump will make the same choice again, deciding that the benefits of a shutdown are so great, the blowback from causing the shutdown is worth it. Plus, he’d probably blame the shutdown on Biden, anyhow.
And if Trump signs, well, he and his party will have won the day. But they will also own the economy 100%. And if the stock market keeps slipping, and if inflation continues to rise, and if unemployment is up again next month, the President and his party won’t have an easy argument for why it’s really the Democrats’ fault.”
Trump has been in office for 2 months. Thats less time than it takes to get a building permit. The stock market was in a massive bubble divorced from reality. A correction was coming regardless of the occupant of the White House. By the time the next midterms come around, the economy will be firing on all cylinders and Dems will be left holding the bag again, looking. For anything that they can throw at the Administration to stop the juggernaut. All the tired old caricatures that the MSM and the left will dig out of the musty closet of impotent desperation will be as useful as they were in the 2024 election cycle.
You could always try impeaching Trump again.
Oh wait, that didn’t end as planned.
Suggestion. Let the extremist progressives holding the Dem party hostage to their insane initiatives have it. Start a new party that is centrist and responsive to the wishes of real people.
You just might have a chance.
Or maybe not.. your choice.
Really? It’s a bit harder to accept MAGA’s thesis. First, an honest actor, even if they were laying some/most of the blame at Biden’s feet, would also have to admit that TCF’s policies have not helped (in the same way that Hoover’s tariff policies helped worsen the Great Depression). MAGA is not conceding that.
Second, neither TCF nor any other Republican is really enunciating a clear cause-and-effect argument for why Biden is to blame. They toss out a bunch of buzzwords like “spending” and “inflationary” and “regulations,” but don’t clearly explain how those things produced what’s happening in the economy right now. The Inflation Reduction Act was passed 2½ years ago—why would its effects be felt now, and so suddenly?
That does not look like the culmination of a downward trend that commenced 6 months or 12 months or 18 months ago. It looks like an economy that was humming along until someone took a sledgehammer to it, perhaps by mounting a pseudo-trade war, or by slashing a bunch of government jobs willy-nilly.
No need for the Dems to do what you advise. The GOP is already starting to eat its own.
When your enemy is shooting themselves in the foot. Get out of the way and hand them bullets.
Again, it’s been 2 months.
Two
Months.
The sky is not falling regardless of the new narrative pushed by the Dems and the MSM. Tell me how you personally have been affected by a tariff, other than the doomsayers influencing the market with thier doomsday scenarios.
2 months . I know it seems like much longer to you Ken. That’s because we have a President in power that gets lots of shit done in a short period of time. I find it refreshing. You find it scary. Change is hard, Ken. You will get used to it.
You have no choice. Settle down.
By the way, Biden is to blame for dumping trillions more freshly printed bucks into an economy already reeling from trillions of COVID related fake money. To name his bill “ The inflation Reduction Act” is almost like a punch in the face. Perhaps you don’t know the real definition of inflation *HINT* it’s not price increases by “Greedy Capitalist Corporations” .
It’s an increase in the money supply, that money being pulled from thin air, backed by some vague promise to pay it all back, foisted on our grandchildren.
When there are more dollars chasing the same supply of goods, guess what happens? Prices increases.
So Biden owns it. The stock market? Overblown valuations created by false expectations of never ending higher returns. It’s cyclical and always has been. If you had any brains, you would have gone to precious metals on day one of the Trump admin.
Like I did.
My retirement account is kicking ass.
Anybody with half a brain knew Trump would roil the market.
I guess you just missed that memo.
You guys want to hit the OC GOP will mention that Palmer Luckey in the process of doing work with Sineapore. Luckey supports high tariffs to force auto makers to do all their manufacturing in the US but when it comes to Andruil. Not all of the manufacturing has to be in the US. Anduril already has some worked done in London and Australia.https://www.ocbj.com/defense-2/anduril-forms-partnership-with-singapore/#