https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-4-2024
"Monday, July 1, was a busy day. That morning the Supreme Court handed down a
decision in
Donald J. Trump v. United States that gives the president
absolute immunity for committing crimes while engaging in official acts. On the
same day, Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon began a four-month sentence
for contempt of Congress at a low-security federal prison in Danbury,
Connecticut. Before he began serving his sentence, he swore he would “be more
powerful in prison than I am now.”
“On July 2, Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, went onto
Bannon’s webcast
War Room to hearten Bannon’s right-wing followers after
Bannon’s incarceration. Former representative Dave Brat (R-VA) was sitting in
for Bannon and conducted the interview.
“[W]e are going to win,” Roberts told them. “We're in the process of taking
this country back…. We ought to be really encouraged by what happened
yesterday. And in spite of all of the injustice, which, of course, friends and
audience of this show, of our friend Steve know, we are going to prevail.”
“That Supreme Court ruling yesterday on immunity is vital, and it's vital for a
lot of reasons,” Roberts said, adding that the nation needs a strong leader
because “the radical left…has taken over our institutions.” “[W]e are in the
process of the second American Revolution,” he said, “which will remain
bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Roberts took over the presidency of the Heritage Foundation in 2021, and he
shifted it from a conservative think tank to an organization devoted to
“institutionalizing Trumpism.” Central to that project for Roberts has been
working to bring the policies of Hungary’s president Viktor Orbán, a close ally
of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, to the United States."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
