Things are not going well in the alternate reality otherwise known as the far right of the Heritage Foundation.
Source: Real Clear Politics
Kevin Roberts, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, will delay publication of his forthcoming book in the wake of a media firestorm sparked by Democratic criticism of the Heritage-led initiative Project 2025, RealClearPolitics is first to report.
Notably, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, a friend of Roberts and the Republican nominee for vice president, wrote the foreword of that book entitled “Dawn’s Early Light.”
“There’s a time for writing, reading, and book tours – and a time to put down the books and go fight like hell to take back our country,” Roberts wrote in a statement to RCP. “That’s why I’ve chosen to move my book’s publication and promotion to after the election.”
Democrats had tried for months, with varying degrees of success, to tie the Heritage work product to the Trump campaign. “Google Project 2025,” President Biden said at one point to illustrate what he considered the insidious plans conservatives had for the next Republican administration. When Vance joined the ticket, however, those attacks found an opening.
“In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon,” Vance wrote in the book’s introduction, which was obtained by the New Republic last week.
Vance’s introduction is a bit of a tough slog to get through as he wanders all over the place, but he ends it with this:
As Kevin Roberts writes, “It’s fine to take a laissez-faire approach when you are in the safety of the sunshine. But when the twilight descends and you hear the wolves, you’ve got to circle the wagons and load the muskets.”
We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.
—J.D. Vance
Nonetheless, Media Matters obtained an advance copy of the book and published excerpts where Roberts “rails against birth control, IVF, abortion, childlessness, and dog parks.” (Dog parks?) In fact, he doesn’t seem to be a fan of women in the workforce at all.
And this Twitter user called it last week.
