JD Vance Praises Heritage Foundation’s Vision in New Book
Ohio Sen. JD Vance endorses Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ vision in the foreword of “Dawn’s Early Light,” potentially conflicting with Trump’s campaign stance on Project 2025.
Bollywood Fever: Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, praised the vision of Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts in the foreword of a forthcoming book that could conflict with the Trump campaign’s effort to distance itself from Heritage’s Project 2025 transition effort.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the foreword to Roberts’ forthcoming book “Dawn’s Early Light” on Tuesday, the same day of a shakeup at Project 2025, which has become an important election-year issue as Democrats and others argue that the nearly 1,000-page vision it set out is extreme.
Praise for Heritage Foundation
“Never before has a figure with Roberts’s depth and stature within the American Right tried to articulate a genuinely new future for conservatism,” Vance writes in his foreword. “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’s words, which echo Roberts’ frequent calls to tear down U.S. institutions entirely to start anew, show the overlap between Trump’s closest allies and the people fueling Project 2025.
Campaign Distancing Efforts
Trump’s top aides have repeatedly criticized organizers of Project 2025 for what they say is a false impression that the transition effort is associated with the campaign. After Tuesday’s shakeup at Heritage, Roberts is now leading Project 2025 operations directly.
Book’s Vision and Controversy
The book, scheduled to be published on Sept. 24, outlines a vision for what its publisher calls “a peaceful ‘Second American Revolution’.” Its subtitle is “Taking Back Washington to Save America,” though earlier descriptions of the book listed it as “Burning Down Washington to Save America.”
The publisher’s description says it identifies institutions that conservatives need to build or to take back, adding that some are “too corrupt to save.” Among those it lists are Ivy League colleges, the FBI, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Department of Education, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Leadership Changes at Project 2025
Also, on Tuesday, Paul Dans, who had directed Project 2025, left the Heritage Foundation amid continued criticism of the plan. Roberts said his departure came after the project completed what it set out to do.
Vance’s Call for Offensive Conservatism
In his foreword, Vance calls for something more than removing bad policies of the past, but instead to “rebuild.”
“We need an offensive conservatism, not merely one that tries to prevent the left from doing things we don’t like,” Vance writes.
As Vance wraps up, he quotes Roberts as saying that twilight descends and a person hears wolves, “You’ve got to circle the wagons and load the muskets.”
“We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets,” Vance adds. “In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.”
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