Four Promises/Four Pillars

Both Project 2025 AND The Heritage Foundation Mandate for Leadership The Conservative Promise have four pillars that summarize them. The news and memes mention Four Pillars but, although they are related and intertwined, they are not the same.

This article will clarify both Four Pillar Platforms. We start with the Mandate, which refers to them as Four Promises.

Here is a link to the free pdf of the 2025 Mandate for Leadership The Conservative Promise. It is over 900 pages, which is why this series is written: to take the content in smaller bites. For that reason, this is part 1 of the Pillars and Promises bite.

Here is a link to the first article in this series:

Four Promises: Mandate for Leadership

These Four Promises of the Mandate for Leadership The Conservative Promise are carefully and terrifyingly explained by current The Heritage Foundation (Heritage) president Kevin Roberts. (This is the same Kevin Roberts that explained in a recent interview that 'we are in the process of the second American revolution which will remain bloodless if the Left allows it to be'.)

Promise One: The Family/Children

Much of Roberts' explanation of this Promise concerns the way the President 'must get to work pursuing the true priority of politics- the well-being of the American family.' He asserts that the 'President has a moral responsibility to lead the nation in restoring a culture of life in America. He goes on to state many imperatives, among them:

• The American family is in crisis. Children born to unmarried mothers 'including more than 70 percent of black children'. Fatherlessness.
• We must 'eliminate marriage penalties in federal welfare programs and the tax code and install work requirements for food stamps'.
• 'Delete terms of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.' (emphasis is mine) These terms include, but are not limited to: 'diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights'.
• Schools come under fire here: Besides universal school choice, banning critical race theory and gender ideology, Roberts explains that 'every threat to family stability must be confronted.' This subjective decision should, according to this Promise include 'educators and public librarians classified as sex offenders' for purveying pornography. (Pornography is defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary as ": material (such as books or a photograph) that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement". This definition is not mentioned in the Promise, leaving it well-opened to interpretation.)
• The overturn of Roe v Wade is also celebrated but 'it is just the beginning' and there must be 'more robust protections for the unborn'.

Promise Two: Dismantle Administrative State/Return Self-Governance

This means, states Roberts, that we must 'reduce the size and scope back to something resembling the original constitutional intent'. (note: I do not believe that, almost 250 years ago, both the size of the country and the infrastructure of the entire world could have been conceived by the founders of the country. Transportation alone would boggle the mind, let alone communications, technology, etc.). It is in this section where Roberts also starts to refer to 'woke culture warriors', establishing and reinforcing the 'us vs them' mentality.

The Administrative Stater refers to the federal agencies and officials (such as Department of State, Department of Defense, US Civil Service, Office of Management and Budget, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Small Business Administration, Department of Education, Department of Justice and many others) that are subject to the President of the United States, which is to give top-down accountability. Since that accountability is to someone elected by the people, then by extension this means the Administrative State is also accountable to the will of the people.

Roberts tools for this dismantling include:

• how to fire 'un-fireable' federal bureaucrats
• shutter bureaus and offices
• muzzle woke propaganda at every level of government
• 'restore warfighting' as the sole mission of the military and set defeating the Chinese Communist Party as its highest priority

Promise Three: Sovereignty/Borders/Bounty

Explaining this Promise is Roberts' opportunity to reinforce the 'us vs them' view that is so important to Heritage. he states "(They) do not believe in the ideals to which our country is dedicated- self-governance, the rule of law, and ordered liberty....certainly do not trust the American people...disdain the Constitution's restrictions on their ambitions. ..humble, patriotic families who make up the majority of what the elites...call 'fly-over country' ". (It's genius, actually. Who wouldn't be offended?)

The United States borders are called 'open', which isn't true. Open borders are those that exist within the United States: borders between states are open. There are restrictions and policies on our national borders; the use of 'open borders' is a clue that polarizing content and comments will follow. Within this explanation is also the 'they are coming for our jobs' trope.

Included within this promise is the 'threat' of environmentalism, (again) Communist China, Big Tech/TikTok, and international organizations and agreements. The solution is the abolishment of them all and a President that goes on the offense regarding America's energy interests 'asserting them around the world'.

Promise Four: "The Blessings of Liberty"

This Promise calls for a interpretation/rewording of the Declaration of Independence, where Roberts explains that, although the Declaration asserts all are 'endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness', that what it really meant was a 'pursuit of Blessedness' and that this pursuit is 'central to America's... self-government'. Thus begins the Norman Rockwell portrait of America and Americans.

'This pursuit of the good life is found primarily in family- marriage, children, Thanksgiving dinners, a job well done, religious devotion and spirituality, volunteering. He describes is as 'the liberty to do not what we want, but what we ought'. (Thus the latest assertion that Taylor Swift is not a good role model because she isn't married with children. This is where those thoughts come from.)

Naturally, Roberts inserts jabs against 'wokeism', elites, compare Marxism and Communism to the Left, 'COVID-19 shutdown politicians', and 'good' grocery store clerks and PTA moms and 'bad' federal bureaucrats.

Roberts's Summation

In his own words, after asserting that 'the Left does not believe that all men are created equal':

"This book, this agenda, the entire Project 2025 is a plan to unite the conservative movement and the American people against elite rule and woke culture warriors."

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To preserve my premise of taking this in manageable bites, this article will conclude with a look (below) at the titles of the Project 2025 Pillars, which is the subject of Part 2; the next article is linked below.

Four Pillars

This is the next in the series:

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