OXON HILL, Md.—After Democrats swept the House and Senate last week, The Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts told conservatives this is “no time for a circular firing squad.”
Speaking at The Forum, a Heritage event just outside Washington, D.C., Roberts emphasized the importance of uniting to fight the policies of new Democrat leaders whose rhetoric has him “worried.”
“For us, regardless of what we think about every aspect of the administration, or Congress, or war, or the economy, or who’s running in 2028, now is not the time to be engaged in a circular firing squad,” Roberts said.
“Now is the time to fight. Now is the time to build. Now is the time to recruit the men and women who can be our leaders of the next generation, and even for those leaders who have disappointed us, whether in the Senate or elsewhere, to tell them we’re reading reality truthfully.”
Roberts compared other presidents’ historical midterm losses with the 2026 results. Democrats flipped 44 seats in the House and seven seats in the Senate, with more than a dozen House races and two Senate races yet to be called on Wednesday, according to Decision Desk.
He referenced French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville writing about the French Revolution: “Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.”
Roberts then noted rising Democrat leaders Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Sen.-elect James Talarico of Texas, Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan, and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
“When I hear AOC, When I hear Sen-elect El Sayed, when I hear the snake oil salesman, James Talarico, when I hear Mayor Mamdani talk, I wouldn’t concede to them that they put me in terror, but they make me worried about the future of this country because this is a left, that is no longer a left of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, or for that matter—I can’t even believe I’m making this reference a positive way—Bill Clinton,” Roberts said.
“It’s not a left thinking about policy that merely wants a larger federal government,” Roberts added. “This is a left that really doesn’t even talk persuasively about those things. This is a left, just like their intellectual ancestors, the Jacobins and the French Revolution, that wants to totally upend what America is.”
Roberts stressed to conservatives that, in 1776, Gen. George Washington faced a near-hopeless situation.
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