Former President Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s far-right 900-page blueprint for a second Trump presidency. Yet many of its proposals have come from Trump allies. And Heritage had a strong presence at the 2024 Republican National Convention. Moreover, Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) wrote the forward for a forthcoming book by Heritage President Kevin Roberts — who, critics say, threatened violence against Project 2025’s opponents when he told Real America’s Voice, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” In an article published on July 29, USA Today’s Will Carless reports that according to some critics, Project 2025 has ties to white nationalists and white supremacists. Donald Trump touts his wound and goes after Kamala Harris in speech ADVERTISEMENT Carless notes that author Michael Harriot has attacked Project 2025 as a “white supremacist manifesto.” “A closer look at the named contributors to Project 2025 adds to the concern,” Carless explains. “A USA Today analysis found at least five of them have a history of racist writing or statements, or white supremacist activity. They include Richard Hanania, who for years, wrote racist essays for white supremacist publications under a pseudonym until he was unmasked by a Huffington Post investigation last year.” Carless adds, “Failed Virginia GOP Senate candidate Corey Stewart, another named contributor, has long associated with white supremacists and calls himself a protector of America’s Confederate history tasked with ‘taking back our heritage.’ One Project 2025 contributor wrote, in his PhD dissertation, that immigrants have lower IQs than white native citizens, leading to ‘underclass behavior.’ Another dropped out of contention for a prestigious role at the Federal Reserve amid controversy over a racist joke about the Obamas.”
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