Sen. J.D. Vance writes it is time to "load the muskets" in the newly revealed forward of an upcoming book from the architect of Project 2025, the controversial policy platform from which his running mate Donald Trump is desperate to distance himself, a new report shows.
The New Republic Wednesday obtained a pre-publication copy of Vance's (R-OH) introduction to Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts' not-yet-released book, “Dawn’s Early Light."
"We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets," Vance writes, according to the New Republic. "In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon."
Trump in recent weeks has gone so far as to claim he has "no idea" behind the Heritage Foundation platform, to which more than 100 of his staffers contributed, after news of its radically conservative recommendations sparked fears on both sides of the political aisle.
The book's publication has now been delayed until after the election, according to reports Wednesday.
But the New Republic reports Vance has "deep ties" with both the foundation and its president, whose book subtitle initially called for "burning Down Washington to Save America.”
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And in its forward, Vance heaps praise on Roberts and the ideas revealed in the upcoming book, set to his bookshelves on Sept. 24, the New Republic reports.
"In the classic American film Pulp Fiction, John Travolta’s character, recently returned from Amsterdam, observes that Europe has the same consumer goods as America, but there it’s just a 'little different,'" Vance writes. "That’s how I feel about Kevin Roberts’s life."
Vance echoes past rhetoric condemning childless Americans as uninterested in the future of their nation.
"We should encourage our kids to get married and have kids," Vance writes. We should teach them that marriage isn’t just a contract, but a sacred—and to the extent possible, lifelong—union."
And he describes the Heritage Foundation as "the most influential engine of ideas for Republicans from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump."
