The president of the right-wing group spearheading Project 2025 raised the specter of violence Tuesday against those who refuse to capitulate to what he characterized as “the second American Revolution” ushered in by presumptive GOP nominee and would-be authoritarian Donald Trump.

Kevin Roberts, head of the Heritage Foundation, said in an appearance on “Real America’s Voice” that the coming “revolution” will “remain bloodless if the left allows it to be”—a thinly veiled threat against those who resist the far-right’s efforts to seize power.

Trump said in April that whether there is violence surrounding the 2024 presidential election “depends” on the “fairness” of the contest and the outcome.

Watch Roberts’ remarks:

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1808507354310209711

“We are going to win. We’re in the process of taking this country back,” declared Roberts, who has said Project 2025 is “institutionalizing Trumpism” in preparation for a possible victory in November.

  • Belastend@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    both parties are exactly the same, both parties are exactly the same, both parties are exactly the same, both parties are exactly the same

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 months ago

    The thing that is upsetting about American fascism is not that it exists.

    It’s the fact that everyone is debating it like an argument about what kind of chairs you want at a wedding.

    It’s the same scenario that played out in 1930s Germany and the rise of Nazism … everyone kept arguing that it wouldn’t happen, it’s not like that, it isn’t that bad, they have good points, we can control it, we won’t let them go too far, everyone obeys the rule of law, we have morals …

    … then we all had to literally break the entire world in order to fix the problem.

    • Dragomus@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I’ve been gently pushing for the same message but at best hear people say “oh it’s just politics, and we have laws against all this so it will be years before anything can truely change”

      Hitler’s power was solidified in a matter of months, whereby he threatened and/or had his political opposition killed. Then he came with the excuse “I don’t believe my people did this”

      No one dared say any of it was against the laws, he was fully above the law and shielded anyone he felt worthy of the same, ofcourse he would have them dissappear when their use ran out…

    • cybermass@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      I couldn’t agree more, the parallel between Nazi Germany and current day America is undeniable

      • maynarkh@feddit.nl
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        8 months ago

        Wonder if the rest of the sane world will have to make a deal with the devil, just not with the Soviets but the Chinese.

        Imagine the Reichstag flag picture with a Chinese flag on the White House. Except everyone is in NBC suits and knows we’ll go extinct in years.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    This country is so fucked. Much of the culture is checked out; a lot of the left/liberal movement seem to be up its own asshole in goofy pandering that seems designed to only churn out more donnie voters, and the cons are making plans, and basically announcing them to everyone.

    Also, I’ll vote Biden no matter what this fall, but the Democratic Party had better seriously consider removing him and selecting someone else. Otherwise, Biden’s chief legacy that is actually remembered will be helping to enable the dismantling of this country by being so egotistical as to think he’s the only one that could beat donnie in 2024.

      • Dr. Bluefall@toast.oooEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Do you believe, in any measure, that Biden would use the power the latest rulings give him?

        Even if we assume he did, what would stop the current Supreme Court from just drawing a chalk outline around the exact thing he did, calling it unofficial, and then charging him anyway?

        The ruling was made to empower Trump, and those that puppeteer him. No one else.

    • makeasnek@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      It’s not Biden, it’s the DNC’s primary voters. They elected the guy, not once, but twice, maybe because he actually does a decent job and beat Don last time. There was a primary this year, I voted in it, there was more than one candidate (though I would have preferred even more), Biden actually lost a primary in American Samoa. I voted for him though, he was clearly the best of the options, nobody else even remotely competitive stepped up to be president.

      • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Just once, there wasn’t a real primary this year. All the alternate frontrunners (Newsone, Whitimer, Butigeg, etc.) stayed out of the race, following the lead of the Party and letting Joe run virtually unopposed.

        Very few people, if anyone, took any of the other candidates as anything more than protests to pressure the Biden campaign into turning left.