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Kid Berwyn

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12. Couched in mystery with rich friends who are evil as all hell.
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 10:00 AM
Mar 2025
Read J.D. Vance’s Violent Foreword to Project 2025 Leader’s New Book

Trump’s running mate writes that “it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets.”


by Alex Shephard
The New republic, July 30, 2024

Donald Trump has been desperate lately to distance himself from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s radical plan to remake the federal government under his presidency. “I have no idea who is behind it,” he said in early July about the plan, which would replace thousands of federal workers with partisan loyalists, ban abortion, and disband the Department of Education. A couple of weeks later, he said of the people behind Project 2025, “They are extreme, they’re seriously extreme, but I don’t know anything about it.”

But between those two denials, on July 15, Trump made a decision that undercuts his claim to have no knowledge of Project 2025: He picked Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate.

Vance has deep ties to the Heritage Foundation, and in particular to Kevin Roberts, who has been president of the right-wing think tank since 2021 and is the architect of Project 2025. Vance has praised Roberts for helping to turn the organization “into the de facto institutional home of Trumpism” and has endorsed elements of Project 2025. Vance is also the author of the foreword to Roberts’s upcoming book, Dawn’s Early Light, which The New Republic has obtained in full even though the book’s publisher, HarperCollins’s Broadside Books, has apparently tried to suppress it amid the scrutiny of Project 2025 and Vance’s ties to Roberts.

The subtitle and cover of Roberts’s book were softened as scrutiny of the Trump campaign’s ties to Project 2025 grew. The book, which is scheduled to be published on September 24, was originally announced with the subtitle “Burning Down Washington to Save America” and featured a match on the center of its cover. The subtitle is now “Taking Back Washington to Save America,” and the match is nowhere to be seen. Promotional language invoking conservatives on the “warpath” to “burn down … institutions” like the FBI, the Department of Justice, and universities has also been removed or toned down, though it is still present in some sales pages.

But the inspiration for that extreme language can be found in Vance’s foreword, which ends with a call for followers to “circle the wagons and load the muskets,” and describes Roberts’s ideas as an “essential weapon” in the “fights that lay [sic] ahead.” (The New Republic downloaded Dawn’s Early Light earlier this month from NetGalley, which provides advance copies of books to reviewers and booksellers. Copies were removed from the platform earlier this month.)

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Vance’s foreword is also, notably, a call for revolution. “The old conservative movement argued if you just got government out of the way, natural forces would resolve problems,” he writes. “We are no longer in this situation and must take a different approach.” That is where the muskets come in:

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https://newrepublic.com/article/184393/jd-vance-violent-foreword-kevin-roberts-project-2025-leader-book

For a NAZI Yale lawyer, Vance don't write that good.

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JD Vance is a real monster. [View all] milestogo Mar 2025 OP
Yes SheltieLover Mar 2025 #1
I can only imagine her as a hostage. milestogo Mar 2025 #2
Hey plenty of women are evil. Woodwizard Mar 2025 #4
Except she supported his "they're eating the pets" fabulism FSogol Mar 2025 #7
Her a hostage? SheltieLover Mar 2025 #8
May be, but probably more like "birds of a feather" paleotn Mar 2025 #25
Or, DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #61
Honestly, they're all kind of low IQ. paleotn Mar 2025 #69
Hostage? Dave Id Mar 2025 #28
She's not a hostage. That's a fact. .... littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 #37
Try imagining DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #62
Then you're pretty short on imagination GaYellowDawg Mar 2025 #70
Post removed Post removed Mar 2025 #44
He's a super glib, lawyerly liar. Mc Mike Mar 2025 #3
And didn't he used to despise TSF? milestogo Mar 2025 #6
Used to compare him to Hitler; nowadays, Mc Mike Mar 2025 #11
Vance is like a piece of clay BonnieJW Mar 2025 #23
Yep, he's a great big phony. ShazzieB Mar 2025 #48
JD Vance advocated for reparations for Red Lining at one tine, that Epstein file is HUGE!! uponit7771 Mar 2025 #5
He looks like he has no substance at all Beringia Mar 2025 #9
Vance is an empty suit. Whatever ideas or ideologies he might hold Ocelot II Mar 2025 #10
Agreed InstantGratification Mar 2025 #20
You're assuming Vance and Satan are not in allegiance on this jmowreader Mar 2025 #58
Couched in mystery with rich friends who are evil as all hell. Kid Berwyn Mar 2025 #12
Usha impresses me as someone like my mother. no_hypocrisy Mar 2025 #13
She's a movement right winger who clerked under Cavanaugh and Roberts 617Blue Mar 2025 #14
True, but that may be irrelevant to poor personal choices. no_hypocrisy Mar 2025 #15
Picking the wrong man? Cirsium Mar 2025 #27
It can be included, yes. no_hypocrisy Mar 2025 #30
And real smart. Yale College and Yale Law grad. CTyankee Mar 2025 #73
She's not a victim or a dupe SkylineChili Mar 2025 #29
This!!! 👆👆👆👆👆 SheltieLover Mar 2025 #50
One redeeming quality might be that he is seemingly a Game of Thrones fan. Shermann Mar 2025 #16
Nothing positive there at all, I'm afraid.. yorkster Mar 2025 #24
Agreed... regnaD kciN Mar 2025 #52
That's why he has the job. That's what they want. twodogsbarking Mar 2025 #17
Puzzling though Nasruddin Mar 2025 #21
They've all mastered the art Mr. Evil Mar 2025 #18
People forget but should NEVER forget bronxiteforever Mar 2025 #19
Serial killer vibes. n/t OneGrassRoot Mar 2025 #22
Yeah..remember the arrogant way he talked about childless women Demovictory9 Mar 2025 #26
He goes out of his way to alienate large groups of people milestogo Mar 2025 #33
I would love to see a cage match Conjuay Mar 2025 #31
J D would be worse. True Blue American Mar 2025 #32
Between his druggie Mother and his vanlassie Mar 2025 #65
JD Jean Genie Mar 2025 #34
These rightwing creatures have bottled up their hatred for decades Martin Eden Mar 2025 #35
I had hoped that at least he might be less sold out to Putin than Shitler AdamGG Mar 2025 #36
Amen wryter2000 Mar 2025 #38
When i was in high school JPPaverage Mar 2025 #39
Is there anyone in the line of succession who doesn't suck? 3catwoman3 Mar 2025 #40
TMV: Trump/Musk/Vance, a triumvirate of monsters leading this country. Sogo Mar 2025 #41
So... he's a little mini-Trump with a beard and Military background. WarGamer Mar 2025 #42
"Military background" LMAO Mysterian Mar 2025 #45
better than bone spurs or deferment. WarGamer Mar 2025 #46
The Little Corporal Norrrm Mar 2025 #54
Worse, even less charisma IbogaProject Mar 2025 #43
But as the kids say, he has no rizz Iris Mar 2025 #47
he's trying to soften up Greenland for the invasion Skittles Mar 2025 #49
One thing that stands out PCB66 Mar 2025 #71
He is trash personified. NoMoreRepugs Mar 2025 #51
And he has no sense of humor. He is a boring ass. Klarkashton Mar 2025 #53
He scolded Denmark just like he scolded Zelenskyy. yorkster Mar 2025 #55
An educated fool. No Vested Interest Mar 2025 #56
I think in The States, we have been insulated from how horrible humans can actually be. We view Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot LT Barclay Mar 2025 #57
But he wouldn't be popular with the MAGAs MissB Mar 2025 #59
I don't think Vance can hold the Magats. Buttoneer Mar 2025 #60
Agreed. Dulcinea Mar 2025 #63
He killed his political career by becoming vp. Unlike other vps whose careers died following the end of their tenure PortTack Mar 2025 #64
And he's hard on sofas and couches. marble falls Mar 2025 #66
I think he's the... 2naSalit Mar 2025 #67
Sometimes when I read OPs too fast my mind makes me laugh BigmanPigman Mar 2025 #68
Question - who is 4th in line for the presidency? lark Mar 2025 #72
No one has to vote for him. OldBaldy1701E Mar 2025 #74
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