Dr. Kevin Roberts, president of the conservative-libertarian Heritage Foundation, calls the aspirations of the far right “think tank” nonpartisan. Let’s take him at his word. He was interviewed on MSNBC the other day, about the Heritage Foundation’s autocratic Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership, The Conservative Promise.

MSNBC: Is your organization going to accept the results of the 2024 presidential election?

Dr. Roberts: Yes, if there isn’t massive fraud like there was in 2020.

MSNBC: There was not massive fraud in 2020.

Dr. Roberts: Yes, there was massive fraud… we have an election fraud database that has documented that over years. By the way the Heritage Foundation has been concerned about election integrity for decades, not just about 2020. We’ve been documenting this problem for a very long time, and if, one of the…

MSNBC: I believe, according to the Heritage Foundation, sir, by your count, Heritage Foundation has done an investigation and according to your count there have been 1,513 proven instances of voter fraud across the United States since 1982. 1,513.

Dr. Roberts: They’re very hard to document, and the Democrat [sic] party is very good at fraud. The key thing here, which I think we would both agree on, is that we aspire at Heritage Foundation to seeing a poll after this election where every American believes their vote was counted. I care as deeply about someone on the political left, with whom I disagree, saying that they have confidence in the outcome of the election, it seems rather than turning this into a partisan conversation, which you do a good a job of at MSNBC, we might say we aspire to something more noble, which is that every American believes their vote counts.

Something more noble, specifically, Führerworte haben Gesetzeskraft! (“the leader’s word is LAW”)

You can listen to Dr. Roberts giving it to the partisans at MSNBC here.

For more details on the Heritage Foundations “election integrity” efforts over the years, here’s a good digest, from September 2020.