521 | Kevin D. Roberts: Trump's Election Mandate and the Legacy of Project 2025

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

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🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dr. Kevin D. Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation and author of Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Kevin discuss why Heritage's Project 2025 plan proved so controversial during the 2024 campaign, the case for radically transforming Washington, the exact nature of Donald Trump electoral mandate, the case against the Department of Education, and the state of the conservative movement during and after Trump.

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0:00.0	Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment.
0:07.7	Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the show. Today's guest is Heritage Foundation President, Dr. Kevin Roberts.
0:13.7	Kevin has a new book out, Dawn's Early Light, taking back Washington to save America.
0:19.7	Folks have probably heard of Kevin and the Heritage Foundation because they were the
0:23.1	authors of Project 2025, an incredibly controversial manifesto and plan for a second Trump
0:30.0	administration that really took off during the summer when Democrats put it at the center
0:33.8	of their attacks on an incoming Trump administration.
0:37.1	Now, I've been really interested lately in this question of mandates and what actual mandate
0:41.5	Trump has after his victory this past November.
0:44.7	So Kevin and I discussed mandates, the Heritage Foundation's perspective and what Trump should
0:48.5	actually do, and this broader conversation around history and our current moment.
0:52.9	Hope you all enjoy it.
0:54.1	And of course, a huge thank
0:55.4	to the Foundation for American Innovation for supporting the work of this podcast. Dr. Kevin Roberts,
1:02.0	welcome to The Realignment. Marshall, I've really been looking forward to this. Thanks for having me.
1:07.5	Yeah, I'm looking forward to chatting with you. I would love to just start out with the very, very obvious question.
1:13.6	I want to phrase this very specifically.
1:16.3	A lot of think tanks exist.
1:18.0	I work at multiple think tanks.
1:20.4	A lot of think tanks put out reports on agendas, ideas.
1:25.7	At a minimum, I think you could agree with the fact that Project 2025, as part of
1:29.7	Heritage's mandate for leadership series, had a narrative impact on the election. Obviously,
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