Section: Foreword
“Look at America under the ruling and cultural elite today: Inflation is ravaging family budgets, drug overdose deaths continue to escalate, and children suffer the toxic normalization of transgenderism with drag queens and pornography invading their school libraries.”
This is baseless fearmongering and bigotry.
Roberts goes on to say that after the 1970’s, the political right led the United States to “historic political, economic, and global victories.”
Fact check: The economy does better under Democratic leadership, and always has. The New York Times reported in February 2021 that: “Since 1933, the economy has grown at an annual average rate of 4.6 percent under Democratic presidents and 2.4 percent under Republicans.” [Source]
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“This is an agenda prepared by and for conservatives who will be ready on Day One of the next Administration to save our country from the brink of disaster.”
No immediate context necessary.
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- Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.
- Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.
- Defend our Nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.
- Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely – what our Constitution calls “the Blessings of Liberty.”
We’ve seen their version of “protecting children”, and it involves dismantling public education, banning books, separating children from their parents at the border, and their complete and utter refusal to enact ANY legislation which might prevent children from being murdered in their classrooms. The cognitive dissonance between #2 and #3 is interesting to me – after you dismantle the government, with what will you be defending the borders? Surely you don’t want to use the government-funded military, correct? Point #4 comes with a heaping helping of cognitive dissonance as well, since so many of their policies involve restricting people’s freedoms, rather than expanding them.
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“The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.”
I’m curious how words merely existing are depriving Americans of their First Amendment Rights, and how deleting those words from government regulations/legislation is going to restore those rights. If anything, removing those words arbitrarily is a violation of 1A – it’s literally censorship by the government. Again, lots of cognitive dissonance here, and he’s unclear on what removing these words actually hopes to accomplish, other than effectively legalizing discrimination against anyone who fits into any of those phrases. Seriously? The phrase “reproductive health” is woke? Insanity.
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“…its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women.”
Oh? Child predators, all? Someone needs to check Kevin’s hard drive for the type of porn he’s watching. He adds that educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. I promise, no public librarians are purveyors of actual child porn, but if they were, I can agree with this point. The problem here is allowing people like Kevin to broadly couch things like even innocuous stories about LGBTQ families as this type of material.
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The “…noxious tenets of critical race theory and gender ideology should be excised from curricula in every public school in the country […] it’s poisoning our children.”
Critical race theory isn’t taught in public elementary schools, it’s taught in law school. Moreover, it’s not exactly new, or particularly “scary”, unless you’re a seething racist. CRT emerged in the 1970’s and is literally just the idea that if you’re a person of color, the justice system in the United States has systemic racism built in, and that POC get treated differently by the police, courts, et al. You don’t have to look around very hard to know that this is 100% true. Police brutality, for example, far disproportionately affects people of color. [Source]
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“In recent decades, members of the House and Senate discovered that if they give away that power to the Article II branch of government, they can also deny responsibility for its actions. So today in Washington, most policy is no longer set by Congress at all, but by the Administrative State. Given the choice between being powerful but vulnerable or irrelevant but famous, most Members of Congress have chosen the latter.”
Is…the Administrative State in the room with us right now? I kid. In context, he’s arguing that Congress is increasingly useless (I agree), and claiming that unelected bureaucrats in various government departments are the ones effectively setting the laws.
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“Bureaucrats at the Department of Education inject racist, anti-American, ahistorical propaganda into America’s classrooms; Bureaucrats at the Department of Justice force school districts to undermine girls’ sports and parents’ rights to satisfy transgender extremists; Woke bureaucrats at the Pentagon force troops to attend “training” seminars about “white privilege”; and Bureaucrats at the State Department infuse U.S. foreign aid programs with woke extremism about “intersectionality” and abortion.”
In 2020, Russell Vought, also a material contributor to Project 2025, ordered the Air Force to stop using training materials that mention race. [Source] Vought called diversity and unconscious bias training intended to create inclusive environments “un-American propaganda training sessions.” Deeply, deeply racist.
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(A conservative president must) “defang and defund the woke culture warriors who have infiltrated every last institution in America.”
It is heavily implied that this should be done by firing any bureaucrats deemed disloyal to the agenda and replacing them with loyalists.
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“Those who run our so-called American corporations have bent to the will of the woke agenda and care more for their foreign investors and organizations than their American workers and customers. Today, nearly every top-tier U.S. university president or Wall Street hedge fund manager has more in common with a socialist, European head of state than with the parents at a high school football game in Waco, Texas.”
That’s fairly rich, coming from the party who supports a “billionaire” who inherited his money and has absolutely nothing in common with average Americans. He goes on to shit on the UN and the EU, citing “signing international treaties on pharmaceutical patents, climate change, and childrens’ rights” as something he’s egregiously offended by. (Page 42, paragraph 6.)
He then baselessly claims that the Left supports open borders (they don’t, and Trump killed bipartisan legislation recently that would have alleviated problems at the border by telling Republicans not to vote for it so he could continue to campaign on the issue. [Source]
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