Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts, the far-right figure at the helm of the "Project 2025" plan to reshape the entire federal government for the benefit of Republicans, was raked over the coals on Wednesday by MSNBC anchor Joy Reid and civil rights professor Sherrilyn Ifill.
"Should Donald Trump be re-elected and elected king, God help us all, he will be surrounded by people like this guy, the head of the Heritage Foundation, the folks behind Project 2025, who said the quiet part real loud and televised." She played a clip of Roberts speaking on the far-right Real America's Voice network.
"We are going to win," he said in the clip. "We're in the process of taking this country back. We're in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."
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"When I heard that clip of that guy ... essentially issue a violent threat against Americans, I had two thoughts. Thought one, he's not going to do anything violent," said Reid. "He'll be at a country club somewhere golfing, while the real violent people, the other people, the Proud Boys types do the actual dirty work. So that man is a coward, and he likes to talk a lot of crap, but it is still a threat. And I took it as a declaration of war. How did you take it?"
"Well, the gloves are obviously off, and they are no longer afraid to say what their true intentions are," said Ifill. "What it made me was angry in a very particular kind of way. I'm not sure who these people think they are, but the idea of some second American Revolution — they are the Confederacy. They don't get the title of American Revolution, they're the Confederacy bent on destroying this country. If they think that what we have gone through, certainly as Black people in this country, as women, as gay people, as the disabled, as people who are poor trying to find their way up to make their children's lives better than theirs, if they think we are about to throw that all off and knuckle under to the likes of Stephen Miller and this man, and Donald Trump, they have got to be kidding."
"I am also from Queens," added Ifill, referencing Trump's birthplace. "I can tell you, the Donald Trumps of the world, we understood exactly who they were when I was growing up in Queens. No matter how much money he had, he was not fit, not worthy of the love and attention that these people have lavished on him. We will not go back."
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