Jeremy Carl, a senior fellow at MAGA-aligned think tank The Claremont Institute, argued in a blog published on Friday that if former President Donald Trump wins the presidential election he should fulfill his promises to carry out retribution against his enemies.
The article appeared at The American Mind, a media outlet from The Claremont Institute — one of the more than 100 advisory board members of Project 2025, a sprawling effort to provide policy and staffing options to the next Republican administration.
Trump should “concentrate first and foremost on destroying the people who tried (and failed) to destroy him,” Carl wrote, adding that “Trump must not be afraid to do at least some of the terrible things that demented liberals have been shrieking that he would do if elected. Fortunately, if this program is carried out strategically, not with anger but with purpose, ‘revenge’ can also be a good vehicle for public policy.”
Since at least March of last year, Trump has threatened that he will use the executive branch to target his declared enemies if he’s reelected. Carl — a former Trump official in the Department of the Interior who called Black Lives Matter “racist” and once cited white nationalist Jared Taylor in an op-ed — wrote that it was incumbent upon Trump to carry out his promises.