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The Heritage Foundation isn’t some random outpost on Capitol Hill; it is and has been the most influential engine of ideas for Republicans from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump.

Vance does not explicitly mention Project 2025 in his foreword. He does, however, make clear that he is extremely close with Roberts [Kevin Roberts has been president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation since 2021 and is the architect of Project 2025] and that he sees him as a strong ally in a shared political project. The foreword opens with the parallels in their biographies: Both are from poor families and had difficult childhoods, both are Catholic, and both are now working in Washington, D.C., to remake the country. Over the three-page foreword, Vance singles out Roberts in the areas where the two most strongly align politically. First, he praises Roberts for his willingness to criticize corporations and break with the GOP’s free-market orthodoxy; then, for his strong emphasis on the family. “Roberts is articulating a fundamentally Christian view of culture and economics,” Vance writes, by “recognizing that virtue and material progress go hand in hand.”

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[–] Minarble@aussie.zone 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Conservatives by definition don’t want things to change.

Christians by definition follow the teachings of a peaceful Jewish preacher who preached love and forgiveness for your fellow man. He preached against avarice and greed.

Project 2025 is a radical restructuring of the entire US system of government.

It is also a mean spirited document of hate and intolerance.

These weirdos are not conservatives nor are they Christians.

They are extremist, radical, false Christian heretics.

[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago

The only thing capital C Conservatives are trying to conserve are prejudices.

[–] millie@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

I don't know that that's an operational definition of Christianity. It seems to me that a great many people who don't seem familiar with love or forgiveness, but who seen intimately familiar with avarice and greed, self-identify as Christians. You can say that they're not, but I don't think that's how religion usually works.

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

We need an offensive conservatism, not merely one that tries to prevent the left from doing things we don’t like.

Doing a great job at the offensive part, fellas 👌

[–] jprice@kbin.run 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He’s an idiot because circling wagons is how you get ambushed.

We circled our convoy in Iraq during the initial invasion and got told to not do that because they could just hit the center with explo and we’re all dead.

JD Vance is kind of like my idiot 1st Sgt who did that. But much more of a cockholster.

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Tbf, I don't think wagon trains typically dealt with RPG-toting wolves.

[–] DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago
[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

That's fine. You bring your muskets and we'll bring our modern firearms. We'll see who wins.