All posts tagged "Kevin Roberts"

“There was never that much distance between the Establishment and the extremists of the right, even in [William F.] Buckley’s era; now they are even closer,” reports Intelligencer Senior writer Sarah Jones.

In October, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts publicly cast his lot in with entertainer Tucker Carlson hours after Carlson had a cozy, normalizing interview with influencer Nick Fuentes, king of the white nationalist groyper army, without pressing him on his radical claims about the merits of Adolf Hitler and killing “perfidious Jews.” Roberts disavowed Fuentes in his video, but Jones said he was also careful to make a “big tent” argument in favor of including even bigoted elements in the conservative movement. “Canceling” Fuentes, he argued, “is not the answer either.”

Now a simmering civil war within Heritage — and the conservative movement itself — has spilled out into public view, said Jones....

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) tore into the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, and the organization's director Kevin Roberts, for their effort to reimpose Christian nationalism on the country.

Roberts and his ilk fundamentally misunderstand the American idea, said Jolly, a longtime Trump skeptic, on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" Thursday evening — and just as important, they misunderstand the religion they claim to preach.

"Roberts expresses similar disdain like, J.D. Vance, for childless Americans," said anchor Joy Reid. "He rails against public schools. He says we need to cultivate children's souls. That public schools cultivate children's souls into godless assembly lines meant to shape obedient little comrades who think morality is a construct and nature is an illusion and saying America's teachers have gone insane. He's dead-set on the notion that America is due for a second revolution ... your thoughts on the fact that they're trying to take his very loopy ideas and make them into law?"...