Conservative Behind Trump Agenda Issues Cryptic Threat to Liberals

Talia Jane
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Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, seemed to issue a veiled threat to the American left during an appearance on far-right entertainment network Real America’s Voice on Tuesday.

“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless—if the left allows it to be,” Roberts said, in front of a backdrop advertising the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank involved in Project 2025, a far-right draconian blueprint to streamline ultraconservative legislation that would significantly roll back civil rights, designed to be deployed the second Trump takes office. While Trump’s campaign has stated it’s not involved in Project 2025, the blueprint has been described as a legislative “wish list” for a Trump presidency.

Roberts’s assertion that the country is in the midst of “the second American Revolution” sparked concern among critics, who pointed to his statement as damning proof that Project 2025 is part of a wide-sweeping effort to convert American democracy into a fascist state.

Twitter Screenshot Carrie Coon @carriecoon: A threat to fall in line, or it WON’T be a bloodless coup: quote tweeting Media Matters: Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be"
Twitter Screenshot Carrie Coon @carriecoon: A threat to fall in line, or it WON’T be a bloodless coup: quote tweeting Media Matters: Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be"
Twitter Screenshot Robert Elisberg @relisberg: Dear @heritage Foundation - So, to translate, "As long as the left gives us everything we want (which includes no recreational sex), we won't use guns & violence." This from the party that stormed the Capitol & put up a noose to hang the Vice President.
Twitter Screenshot Robert Elisberg @relisberg: Dear @heritage Foundation - So, to translate, "As long as the left gives us everything we want (which includes no recreational sex), we won't use guns & violence." This from the party that stormed the Capitol & put up a noose to hang the Vice President.
Twitter Screenshot karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet: This is literally a far right coup and the far right is telling you they are going to continue and if we try to stop them they will resort to open violence. This is cartoonish and people need to push these fascist to fuck around before the election. Bring the hurt to them.
Twitter Screenshot karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet: This is literally a far right coup and the far right is telling you they are going to continue and if we try to stop them they will resort to open violence. This is cartoonish and people need to push these fascist to fuck around before the election. Bring the hurt to them.

What Roberts means by “bloodless” is unclear, but critics immediately interpreted it as a threat that any resistance to the authoritarian far-right power grab laid out by Project 2025 would be met with violence.

Twitter screenshot Brian McGinnis ��️‍�� @brianmcg_: Extremely cool and fine and normal that the people planning the Trump agenda are expressly saying they are gonna do political violence and Fascism and it is getting near zero media coverage
Twitter screenshot Brian McGinnis ��️‍�� @brianmcg_: Extremely cool and fine and normal that the people planning the Trump agenda are expressly saying they are gonna do political violence and Fascism and it is getting near zero media coverage
Twitter screenshot Geoff Wilt @geoffwilt: the president of the heritage foundation indicating they intend violent revolution should be, I dunno, a major news story ��‍♂️
Twitter screenshot Geoff Wilt @geoffwilt: the president of the heritage foundation indicating they intend violent revolution should be, I dunno, a major news story ��‍♂️
Twitter Screenshot Dave Vetter @davidrvetter: The white supremacist Heritage Foundation, which also refutes climate science, is celebrating a "second American Revolution", promising bloodshed if any resistance is offered.
Twitter Screenshot Dave Vetter @davidrvetter: The white supremacist Heritage Foundation, which also refutes climate science, is celebrating a "second American Revolution", promising bloodshed if any resistance is offered.
Twitter screenshot CT John Brown Gun Club @ctjbgc: This is a threat of violence if we don’t acquiesce. I guess it’s violence then.
Twitter screenshot CT John Brown Gun Club @ctjbgc: This is a threat of violence if we don’t acquiesce. I guess it’s violence then.