But the inspiration for that #extreme language can be found in #JDVance’s foreword, which ends w/a call for followers to “circle the wagons & load the muskets,” & describes Roberts’s ideas as an “essential weapon” in the “fights that lay [sic] ahead.”

…#Vance does not explicitly mention #Project2025 in his foreword. He does, however, make clear that he is extremely close w/ Roberts & that he sees him as a strong ally in a shared political project.

#Trump#MAGA#PoliticalViolence #extremism

The foreword opens w/the parallels in their biographies: Both are from poor families & had difficult childhoods, both are Catholic, & both are now working in Washington, DC, to remake the country.… #Vance singles out…the areas where the 2 most strongly align politically. First, he praises Roberts for his willingness to criticize #corporations & break w/the #GOP’s #FreeMarket orthodoxy; then, for his strong emphasis on the #family.

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“Roberts is articulating a fundamentally #Christian view of #culture & #economics,” #JDVance writes, by “recognizing that virtue & material progress go hand in hand.”

#Vance’s foreword is also, notably, a call for #revolution. “The old conservative movement argued if you just got government out of the way, natural forces would resolve problems,” he writes. “We are no longer in this situation & must take a different approach.”

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That is where the muskets come in:

“As #KevinRoberts writes, 'It’s fine to take a laissez-faire approach when you are in the safety of the sunshine. But when the twilight descends & you hear the wolves, you’ve got to circle the wagons & load the muskets.'

“We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons & load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.”

#Trump#JDVance#Project2025#MAGA#PoliticalViolence#DomesticTerrorism #extremism

On Tues, the #Trump campaign’s public attacks on #Project2025 bore fruit: The project is shuttering its policy operations, & its dir, #PaulDans, is stepping down. “Reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed & should serve as notice to anyone or any group trying to misrepresent their influence w/*President* Trump & his campaign—it will not end well for you,” the Trump campaign said in a statement. [outright threat]

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