Heritage Foundation President on Project 2025: “Never before has the American conservative movement been this unified around a set of possible policy prescriptions”
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Citation From the July 18, 2024, edition of The Heritage Foundation's The Kevin Roberts Show
KEVIN ROBERTS (PRESIDENT, HERITAGE FOUNDATION): Well, you and I were, as we were planning this, this conversation, going to talk about the state of conservatism, the future of conservatism, which is another way of talking about the state of the country which we will do, and it's obviously timely because of the new cycle, but it's timely because of the point you just made about practical, to just mention Project 2025, although that's not our ostensible purpose in this episode, which is to say that never before has the American conservative movement been this unified around a set of possible policy prescriptions.
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And so, yes, it's 922 pages. But the much larger point, you can only realize when you step back from all of this, this news cycle to say, man, the conservative movement is getting its act together, and a lot of people deserve credit for that, chiefly Donald J. Trump, who, regardless of what percentage someone in the audience agrees with him on certain policies or not, he has personified this moment in American history where Americans have had enough and they're ready to have their country back, and wake up in a normal country.