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Read J.D. Vance’s Violent Foreword to Project 2025 Leader’s New Book: Trump’s running mate writes that “it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets.” (newrepublic.com)

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The Heritage Foundation isn’t some random outpost on Capitol Hill; it is and has been the most influential engine of ideas for Republicans from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump.

Vance does not explicitly mention Project 2025 in his foreword. He does, however, make clear that he is extremely close with Roberts [Kevin Roberts has been president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation since 2021 and is the architect of Project 2025] and that he sees him as a strong ally in a shared political project. The foreword opens with the parallels in their biographies: Both are from poor families and had difficult childhoods, both are Catholic, and both are now working in Washington, D.C., to remake the country. Over the three-page foreword, Vance singles out Roberts in the areas where the two most strongly align politically. First, he praises Roberts for his willingness to criticize corporations and break with the GOP’s free-market orthodoxy; then, for his strong emphasis on the family. “Roberts is articulating a fundamentally Christian view of culture and economics,” Vance writes, by “recognizing that virtue and material progress go hand in hand.”

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He’s an idiot because circling wagons is how you get ambushed.

We circled our convoy in Iraq during the initial invasion and got told to not do that because they could just hit the center with explo and we’re all dead.

JD Vance is kind of like my idiot 1st Sgt who did that. But much more of a cockholster.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Tbf, I don't think wagon trains typically dealt with RPG-toting wolves.