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Project 2025 chief’s book urges ‘burning’ of FBI, New York Times and Boy Scouts (www.theguardian.com)

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Summary

Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation and architect of Trump’s Project 2025, employs intense fire-related rhetoric in his upcoming book, Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America, advocating for a “controlled burn” of institutions he deems corrupt or antithetical to conservative goals.

Roberts calls for dismantling entities like the FBI, Ivy League schools, and the New York Times, framing it as necessary to “renew” America.

His incendiary language has sparked controversy, with critics alarmed by the violent imagery and its implications for Trump’s second term.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 hours ago (33 children)

The boy scouts one is especially baffling. A lot of boys become more traditionally "manly" through boy scouts. It is physically active and they typically learn skills like camping, fire starting, wood working. We were also expected to do good deeds, be polite, and overall be decent members of society that help where is needed, such as litter clean ups and tree plantings. I guess the latter half of my point is where their issues start?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago (18 children)

Both of them are pretty baffling. Because you're right about the Boy Scouts, but also, BlackRock is basically a Republican dream company.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (11 children)

Because he's attacking all institutions that have some sort of control he wants. The wide net just feeds into the deep state narrative and he needs to capitalize on that right now

Kids, healthcare, education, private equity etc.. that's how you make a dictatorship.

See it this way, BlackRock has enough power to do to the republican party what the republican party is doing to the gov. They need all of that gone to become maglomaniac authoritarians.

If I wanted to become Bill Gates, and make my own Microsoft, i first have to outlaw bill gates and Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The keys to GAINING power are not the same keys needed to KEEP power.

They gained the power (or will in a few months)

Now they need to keep it.

If one of the keys needed to get it could potentially turn on you, it's better for your regime to eliminate them as soon as possible after taking power.

For a better explanation, CGP GREY has a video about rules for rulers, which clears things up quite well: https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs

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