'Fire is the cornerstone': Project 2025 leader calls for 'burning' of FBI, NY Times in controversial book
During his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump made a concerted effort to distance himself from Project 2025 — the Heritage Foundation's far-right 920-page blueprint for a second Trump Administration.
Trump claimed that he knew nothing about Project 2025, but in fact, his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), wrote the forward to Heritage leader Kevin Roberts' new book, "Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America." And Project 2025 was designed by a long list of Trump allies.
Moreover, there are many parallels between Project 2025 and Trump's own executive order Agenda 47.
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The publication of "Dawn's Early Light" was delayed until after the election. The Guardian's Martin Pengelly, in an article published on November 8, details some of the things Roberts' book has to say in his book.
Roberts, according to Pengelly, is obsessed with "fire" and "burning" imagery.
Roberts writes, "Fire has the potential to destroy…. To escape our current darkness, restore America's civic life and take back our country for good, conservatives can't merely continue putting out fires; we must be brave enough to go on the offense, strike the match and start a long, controlled burn."
The Heritage leader continues, "There's plenty of fuel. Like deadwood in a forest, many of America’s institutions have been completely hollowed out … 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."
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Roberts offers a long list of "institutions" he would like to see "burned." And they include "every Ivy League college, the FBI, the New York Times, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Department of Education, 80 percent of 'Catholic' higher education, BlackRock, the Loudoun County Public School System, the Boy Scouts of America, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum, the Chinese Communist Party, and the National Endowment for Democracy."
Roberts writes, "Man's taming of fire is the cornerstone of human culture. 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. 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."
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Read The Guardian's full article at this link.
