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BumRushDaShow

(163,346 posts)
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 03:11 AM Monday

'The whole thing is imploding': Chaos erupts inside America's top right-wing think tank

Source: Raw Story

November 9, 2025 3:57PM ET


Founded in 1973, the Heritage Foundation has become what its president, Kevin Roberts, now hails as the “intellectual backbone” of the conservative movement. It crafted the policy blueprint that powered President Ronald Reagan’s right-wing revolution — and today, under Roberts’s leadership, it’s once again shaping the machinery of power.

Through its highly controversial Project 2025 — a plan widely credited to Roberts as its chief architect — Heritage laid out a road map for President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda. But Roberts’s recent missteps have rattled the institution, raising strong questions about his leadership — and the future direction of the conservative movement itself.

Roberts gained widespread attention in July 2024 when he issued a warning to Democrats: “we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” At the time, Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer said, “they are threatening violence.” As did others.

“Kevin Roberts is threatening violence to anyone not following his dear leader,” former Republican and former U.S. Congressman Denver Riggleman wrote. “Every network should cover this."

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/the-whole-thing-is-imploding-chaos-erupts-inside-america-s-top-right-wing-think-tank/

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'The whole thing is imploding': Chaos erupts inside America's top right-wing think tank (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Monday OP
..... Skittles Monday #1
Good Deminpenn Monday #2
They overplayed their hand... JawJaw Monday #3
May all involved receive everything they deserve. niyad Monday #4
I have missed your quiet, but sinister, invocation. Aristus Monday #14
Don't forget that it is also a benediction. niyad Monday #15
The quoted paragraphs provide no indication... WestMichRad Monday #5
Did you read the entire article? GiqueCee Monday #6
WestMichRad, like myself, may have an objection to going to RawStory. IL Dem Monday #7
After using it for a bunch of months now, here is what I found Raw Story does - BumRushDaShow Monday #9
I don't usually go there, either. demmiblue Monday #16
And he's in the dog killer club... Clouds Passing Monday #10
Another dog killer. n/t valleyrogue Monday #19
Prerequisite to join the gang Clouds Passing Monday #20
I did not have time to read the entire article. WestMichRad Monday #11
You are not alone JoseBalow Monday #13
The Heritage Foundation is a terrorist organization travelingthrulife Monday #8
Hmmm I recall a form that you could fill out vapor2 Monday #21
I have never really understood... moose65 Monday #12
They plan out Quanto Magnus Monday #18
backbone of.... Quanto Magnus Monday #17

Aristus

(71,304 posts)
14. I have missed your quiet, but sinister, invocation.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 12:31 PM
Monday

Looking forward to them getting what they deserve...

WestMichRad

(2,794 posts)
5. The quoted paragraphs provide no indication...
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 07:16 AM
Monday

… of how “the whole thing is imploding.”

Just saying… it helps to include content that supports the headline.

GiqueCee

(3,029 posts)
6. Did you read the entire article?
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 08:12 AM
Monday

Comments from people inside The Heritage Foundation certainly support the headline, as do remarks from outside observers. It looks like Roberts's support for a piece of shit like Carlson, and his apparent affection for Nick Fuentes, will be Kevin Roberts's downfall. Couldn't happen to a nicer soulless psychopath. Same goes for anyone even tangentially associated with that obscenely treacherous crowd.

IL Dem

(887 posts)
7. WestMichRad, like myself, may have an objection to going to RawStory.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 08:57 AM
Monday

I will not click on any link that takes me there. It is a junk site and full of ads that interfere with my laptop's loading abilities even with AdBlock extension. It is not original reporting, either.

So it is helpful to be able to read the paragraph(s) that supports the headline.

BumRushDaShow

(163,346 posts)
9. After using it for a bunch of months now, here is what I found Raw Story does -
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 09:50 AM
Monday

1.) They will report on another outlet's reporting - and often sites that are PAYWALLED that non-subscribers will NOT have access to, but they will usually either link to those articles directly (at the bottom of their article) or will link to it in their content if someone wants to see the original source.

2.) They have their OWN staff who will actually monitor the broadcast and social media news/politics feeds and will summarize them. So if CNN has a guest on a political show, they will have someone watch that interview/interaction and will summarize it (without the formality of a complete "transcript", like places such as CBS does with "Face the Nation" ), often with certain quotes of interest being focused on in their excerpts).

3.) They will have "guest writers" from various news/political blog sites, actually write/contribute an article about what is going on in the news and politics, and in some cases, the articles are coming from local broadcast/print sites and the authors are credited.

4.) They will often summarize articles from news sources that were carefully buried (not really highlighted on those sites' main pages) that end up PAST the LBN 12-hour cutoff, so they can't be posted here, but Raw Story will do a report on what those articles were describing and will do so within the 12-hour time frame, so they can at least be posted in LBN.

So as an example for me personally, I have subscriptions to a big pile of news/politics sites/magazines/newspapers, etc. But I don't sub to the WSJ. But Raw Story will often summarize articles from them. If there are fireworks going on during some Faux Snooze program (and I sure as hell won't link to them), THEY will summarize what happened during that "Republicans in Disarray" moment that needs to be put out there "in public" since the M$M does so much sanitizing of GOP fumbles.

demmiblue

(38,946 posts)
16. I don't usually go there, either.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 12:56 PM
Monday

Personally, I don’t think it should be an allowable source for LBN. GD, sure. Same with a few other sources, like Mediaite.

Clouds Passing

(6,540 posts)
10. And he's in the dog killer club...
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 10:13 AM
Monday

“Former colleagues recalled to The Guardian that Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, told them that he had killed his neighbor’s pit bull around 2004 because the dog’s barking was bothering his family. Roberts, now the architect of the right-wing blueprint for a second Trump presidency, was an assistant professor of history at New Mexico State University from 2003 to 2005.

Kenneth Hammond, the history department chair at the time, told the outlet: “My recollection of his account was that he was discussing in the hallway with various members of the faculty, including me, that a neighbor’s dog had been barking pretty relentlessly and was, you know, keeping the baby and probably the parents awake and that he kind of lost it and took a shovel and killed the dog. End of problem.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/project-2025-kevin-roberts-dog-b2618094.html

WestMichRad

(2,794 posts)
11. I did not have time to read the entire article.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 11:34 AM
Monday

That happens to be the case sometimes when I’m busy. Instead I read four paragraphs that didn’t inform me of much of anything.

Guess I need to be more careful about which threads I click.

travelingthrulife

(3,813 posts)
8. The Heritage Foundation is a terrorist organization
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 09:25 AM
Monday

Why is this political organization exempt from taxes?

vapor2

(3,432 posts)
21. Hmmm I recall a form that you could fill out
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 09:30 PM
Monday

demanding they NOT be exempt from taxes. Can't recall the rest

moose65

(3,425 posts)
12. I have never really understood...
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 12:11 PM
Monday

I've never really understood what a "think-tank" actually is.

Supposedly people go to work there, right? What do they do all day?

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