Dear President Trump: Heritage has moved away from NEO-CON side!
Eugene Delgaudio president of Public Advocate says:
"FOR 42 years I have been in Washington and I know politics can be confusing. For most of that time I have been cordial to Heritage during their time of neo-conservative enthusiasm. It would be dishonest for me not to acknowledge their sudden and abrupt change to support pro-family traditional moral forces in recent years. Anyone who claims otherwise is misinformed or conducting some kind of vendetta based on wrong information. I will match experience with anyone on the internet and most will be outranked by my long history of leadership in the mainstream and moral leadership here in Washington. The Wall Street Journal, some never Trump consultants and anti-globalist social media blogs attack Heritage over their Project 2025 project now but they are wrong to do so, " says Delgaudio.
Kevin Roberts wisely steered Heritage away from the failed neocon agenda. That's why The Wall Street Journal is attacking him.
The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal published a ridiculous hit piece on Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts this week, claiming Heritage has been led astray by Roberts, who has supposedly "steered the venerable think tank away from some of its longtime conservative principles to court Donald Trump, only to be spurned by the temperamental former President he and his institution courted."
The editors are referring to the Trump campaign's recent move to distance itself from Heritage's Project 2025, a hefty document outlining conservative policy recommendations for a potential incoming Republican administration (Heritage has published something like it every four years since 1981). Democrats and the media have been attacking - and brazenly lying about - Project 2025 lately in a desperate attempt to distract from the Biden-Harris administration's massive policy failures. Unfortunately, the Trump campaign responded to these attacks not by calling out the lies but by disavowing Project 2025.
In fairness, Project 2025 was never formally connected to the Trump campaign. Roberts himself has said it's meant to be "a stockpile of conservative policy recommendations from which our leaders can pick and choose," and that of course there will be disagreement and debate, which is a healthy and normal part of the democratic process.
For the WSJ editorial board, all of this is a cautionary tale about what happens to conservatives who abandon their principles to "court the political flavor of the day." What an outrageous and lazy smear. Roberts hasn't abandoned his conservative principles. On the contrary, he's stuck to them amid attacks from all sides - and in the process helped save the Heritage Foundation from irrelevance.