July 30th, 2025. On July 2nd, 2024, just about a year ago, President of the Right Wing Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, told the listeners of Steve Bannon's War Room webcast,

We are going to win. We're in the process of taking this country back. Roberts pointed to the

Supreme Court's decision in Donald J. Trump v. United States the day before, giving the president

absolute immunity for committing crimes while engaging in official acts. The Supreme Court

ruling yesterday on immunity is vital, and it's vital for a lot of reasons, Robert said,

adding that the nation needs a strong leader because the left has taken over our institutions.

We are in the process of the Second American Revolution,

he said, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be. Roberts was the man who

organized Project 2025, the blueprint for a new kind of government dictated by a right-wing

strongman. Creating that new government would require a president willing to act illegally,

stripping the secular language of civil rights from public life,

packing the government with loyalists,

ending the social safety net,

killing business regulations,

and purging American institutions of all but right-wing

ideologues. When Americans learned about Project 2025, they hated it. An NBC news poll from

September 2024 showed that only 4% of Americans saw the project favorably. Even among Republicans, that number climbed

only to 7%. For those identifying as MAGA Republicans, the number rose to just 9%. So Trump and his

campaign advisors denied that he had anything to do with the plan. I know nothing about Project

2025, he wrote on social media in July. I have no idea who is behind it. And yet, six months into

the second Trump administration, on the 60th anniversary of the law that symbolized the modern

American state by establishing Medicare and Medicaid,

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