Kevin Roberts, the architect of the controversial Project 2025, writes in his soon-to-be-released book that he wants to conduct a "slow burn" of multiple American institutions.
The Guardian has obtained a copy of the book, which is titled "Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America," and calls for setting presumably metaphorical fire a wide variety of institutions that are insufficiently right wing.
"Many of America’s institutions have been completely hollowed out," Roberts contends. "Decadent and rootless, these institutions serve only as shelter for our corrupt elite. Meanwhile, they block out the light and suck up the nutrients necessary for new American institutions to grow. For America to flourish again, they don’t need to be reformed; they need to be burned."
Roberts's list of institutions in need of a fiery cleanse includes both traditional conservative bogeymen such as the media and Ivy League universities but also some institutions that were once seen as staunchly conservative, including the FBI, "80% of ‘Catholic’ higher education," and even "The Boy Scouts of America."
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Also on Roberts's list is the asset management firm BlackRock, which The Guardian notes "has been a key investor in Trump Media & Technology Group, the president-elect’s social media company."
The Guardian also says that Roberts's obsession with fire is evident throughout the entire book, as he offers philosophical musings on the virtues of burning things.
"That’s the funny thing about fire. It is so fleeting, a flame flickering from moment to moment, yet in its evanescence, it is eternal," he writes at one point. "Of all the elements, fire is most associated with transformation, renewal, and change. You can’t have a blaze without some kind of sacrificial transformation of fuel into fire. Yet precisely for this reason, fire demands an attention to continuity. Unlike any of the other elements, fire dies … a fire must be continually tended.”
