Revolting
The other day, Kevin Roberts -- who is president of the extreme-right Heritage Foundation (the group that oversaw the dystopian "Project 2025" booklet that is considered a fascist playbook for the Republican Party plans, should Trump get elected) did a video interview on the "Real America" (sic) online channel. One of his comments leaped out and got a lot of furious response. It was when he said --
"We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."
So, to translate, "As long as the left gives us everything we want (which is so tyrannical that it includes no recreational sex), we won't use guns & violence."
This from the party that stormed the Capitol and put up a noose to hang the Vice President. In other words, the Heritage Foundation is not being hypothetical.
(And yes, I should add that my comment about "no recreational sex" is not a joke, but absolutely real. It comes from a video that the Heritage Foundation posted in May, 2023, with one of their spokespeople, and she talks about wanting the Republican Party to "lead the way" to ending people having "recreational sex. Really. Here's the video. So, that's one of the many things they want the left to give them in order to refrain from violence. As if Republicans don't also have recreational sex... But that's how controlling and puritanical and authoritarian the Heritage Foundation is -- an organization which is perhaps the leading sounding board for today's MAGOP.)
As you might imagine, Roberts' interview and threat got a great deal of attention. And it brought to mind Maya Angelou's famous words, "When people tell you who they are, believe them."
One of the best responses I saw was from Joy Reid on MSNBC talking with Sherrilyn Ifill, a lawyer and the Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Endowed Chair in Civil Rights at Howard University. She is also former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Both women were excellent in commenting on the Heritage Foundation president's threat of violence if MAGOPs don't get their way. Though I think Ms. Ifill was particularly eloquent and forceful. In short, she noted that despite their long claim of being patriots and pretending to embrace the Founding Fathers are "real Americans," the extreme right (which is basically today's MAGOP) has no claim to an American Revolution, but are instead the Confederacy trying to destroy the country.
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