The author of a book with a foreword by Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance has delayed its publication until after the presidential election, RealClearPolitics reports.
Kevin Roberts, the president of the right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation and an architect of its controversial Project 2025 initiative, will no longer publish his Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington To Save America in September, as originally planned. The book, which conservative publisher Broadside Books says “outlines a peaceful ‘Second American Revolution,’” is now listed with a publication date of Nov. 12, one week after Election Day.
Roberts’ Project 2025 has become a political lightning rod in this year’s presidential election. The policy initiative is essentially a proposed plan for the federal government if former President Donald Trump wins back the White House; it suggests expanding presidential powers, restricting access to contraception and abortion, and cutting the budgets of Medicare and Medicaid. Trump has attempted to distance himself from the initiative.
Dawn’s Early Light, Broadside says, targets “corrupt” institutions including “Ivy League colleges, the FBI, the New York Times, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Department of Education, BlackRock, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, [and] the National Endowment for Democracy.”
Last month, the New Republic printed Vance’s foreword to the book, in which he writes, “We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.”
Roberts told RealClearPolitics, “There’s a time for writing, reading, and book tours—and a time to put down the books and go fight like hell to take back our country. That’s why I’ve chosen to move my book’s publication and promotion to after the election.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
