ā€œPeople will lose their jobs,ā€ the think tankā€™s president says about federal workers. ā€œHopefully their lives are able to flourish in spite of that.ā€

Since taking over the Heritage Foundation in 2021, Kevin D. Roberts has been making his mark on an institution that came to prominence during the Reagan years and has long been seen as an incubator of conservative policy and thought.

Roberts, who was not well known outside policy circles when he took over, has pushed the think tank away from its hawkish roots by arguing against funding the war in Ukraine, a turnabout that prompted some of Heritageā€™s policy analysts to leave. Now heā€™s looking ahead, to the 2024 election and beyond.

Roberts told me that he views Heritageā€™s role today as ā€œinstitutionalizing Trumpism.ā€ This includes leading Project 2025, a transition blueprint that outlines a plan to consolidate power in the executive branch, dismantle federal agencies and recruit and vet government employees to free the next Republican president from a system that Roberts views as stacked against conservative power. The lesson of Trumpā€™s first year in office, Roberts told me, is that ā€œthe Trump administration, with the best of intentions, simply got a slow start. And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.ā€

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      Hexbear will tell you that Trump is no worse than Biden. Legitimately, they constantly repeat that. Itā€™s insane.

      Start making molotovs instead.

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          Theyā€™re just trolls who like being contrarians. In 30 yearsā€™ time theyā€™ll be your uncle on Facebook-equivalent making racist posts and Just Asking Questions.

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            Incorrect. Goddamn pug Jesus, you should at least make an effort to lurk enough over there to know wtf youā€™re talking about. That way you could make accurate accusations or insults towards them.

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              No, Iā€™ve been dealing with tankies forā€¦ Christ, over a decade and a half at this point.

              Iā€™ve seen their life cycle. Hexbear arenā€™t the subspecies who turn into bitter old Trots college professors.

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                  ā€¦ yeah. I imagine in another decade and a half Iā€™ll be bitterly musing about how Iā€™ve been arguing with tankies for most of my life, lmao.

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        Theyā€™re pretty much right. You donā€™t see many liberals worried about the wall these days

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      I think thatā€™s a lot of people if America becomes a dictatorship. If they think the populace is going down without a fight, they have a whole fucking nother thing coming to them. The only way an American dictator survives the first year is if theyā€™re hidden in a bunker underground.