Conservative Suggests 'De-Chartering' All Cities

[turbinetree]

The president of the Heritage Foundation openly calls for American apartheid.

By Frances Langum — August 2, 2025

The president of the organization that essentially invented second-term Trumpism isn't content with what the Trump administration has done, and what it intends to do, at the federal level. If you live in a big city in a red state, it wants your state to take away your right to self-governance.

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts urged right-wing state legislators this month to “de-charter” liberal capital cities and replace them with “state municipal districts.” ...

"When we have cities like Austin, or Nashville, or other capital cities whose local government is not representative of the will of the people, de-charter them and establish them as state municipal districts in the name of common sense,” he urged.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/08/conservative-suggests-de-chartering-all

Hey Roberts ever hear or read the Constitution..............try it ..............what you are proposing is a fascist state also................

[spooky3]

1. The media REALLY need to stop using the term "conservative"

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When behavior is reactionary or fascist.

[turbinetree]

2. I agree .............this is not conservative at all.............

[no_hypocrisy]

4. "Fascist" is a better moniker.

[Hornedfrog2000]

9. The media/billionaires

Do not care what the people want

[spooky3]

11. Crooksandliars is not billionaire-owned. Nt

[KPN]

15. Bingo! Yesterday's conservative is considered left

today. So yeah — radical and fascist are appropriate terms for describing the Republican Party these days.

[Initech]

24. The Heritage Foundation is a terrorist organization!

Kevin Roberts needs to be in prison!

[JustAnotherGen]

27. When the Regime is brought to heel by we the people

He's one who I think should lose his right to vote for 20 years. He's an architect of the Dictatorship.

[J_William_Ryan]

3. '...stop using the term "conservative"'

Conservativism is reactionary and fascist – it always has been.

[calimary]

6. And don't forget Hell-bound!

That’d work, too.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Worse than communism.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. there is that word again, ""common sense " . whose ? theirs!

[North Coast Lawyer]

8. So much for "local control".

As usual the GOP/MAGA stance is conditional. Local control only when it suits them.

[Dulcinea]

10. "whose local government is not representative of the will of the people"

Uh, the people ELECTED the local government. Therefore it's the will of the people, asswipe.

[zorbasd]

16. Yup, it seems these facsists have contempt for

real local representation from city dwellers, but want total control of cities by rural folk.
Try taking control of cities, you fascists hicks! You'll meet your final destiny faster than you can blink. The American Heritage Foundation must be totally destroyed, defunded and thrown into the ash heap of history.

[GiqueCee]

20. Abso-fuckin'-lutely!

[rickyhall]

12. The majority of Americans are liberal even if they've forgotten the word.

Eventually the fascists will fall AGAIN.

[Dulcinea]

18. It's OUR job to make sure that happens.

Vote. Protest. Volunteer. Run for office. It all matters! It all counts!

[FoggyLake]

13. There it is. Tech bros are gonna get their city-states where they can be kings

[PatSeg]

14. Whoa, that sounds like what Rick Snyder did in Michigan

some years back. He just eliminated local government of some towns and installed managers. Elections meant nothing. It seemed terribly extreme at the time, but now I can see it happening in a lot of states under this administration.

[eppur_se_muova]

21. My first thoughts too. Yes, same basic playbook, only the names differ. nt

[PatSeg]

28. Yes, another way to destroy democracy

I couldn't believe what all Snyder got away with back then, but now it's happening again.

[Sogo]

17. Is that something like what then-Governor Snyder did to Detroit in MI?

nt

[GiqueCee]

19. Evil of this magnitude...

... has to be stopped. By whatever means necessary. And the response from those we should have been able to trust was... crickets.

[LS0999]

22. Why is fascism/nazism considered common sense?

When will the mainstream media and the s***** social media companies call them out for it? Their sick viewpoint ostracized and demonized, not be branded as common sense.

[Initech]

23. Sorry, assholes, but I don't want to live in North Korea, ok?

[BadgerKid]

25. "Districts": how Hunger Games of them. Nt

[JustAnotherGen]

26. This will trigger

Violence. He says two cities in Red States -

But every single day Blue State average citizens are getting angrier and angrier.

NJ is a trifecta state, receive the least back for what we pay in, and even Trenton can't get us to give up Home Rule.

If - no WHEN the magapub Regime implements this by executive order - our Governor, Sens and Assembly members won't be able to stop what happens.

[Aristus]

29. Common sense would say that city dwellers have right to govern themselves

according to their own principles, and not those of rural hole-dwellers and others who don’t live in the cities.

Once again, the term ”common sense” is casually bandied about by people who have none of their own…