For you who are unfamiliar with Project 2025 — get your head out of the sand — Wikipedia defines the Project this way:
Project 2025 (also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project) is a political initiative to reshape the federal government of the United States and consolidate executive power in favor of right-wing policies. The plan was published in April 2023 by The Heritage Foundation, an American conservative think tank, in anticipation of Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election.
The ninth iteration of the Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership series, Project 2025 is based on a controversial interpretation of the unitary executive theory that states that the entire executive branch is under the complete control of the president. The project’s proponents say it would dismantle a government bureaucracy that is unaccountable and mostly liberal. Critics have called it an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan that would steer the U.S. toward autocracy. Some legal experts say it would undermine the rule of law, the separation of powers, the separation of church and state, and civil liberties.
The project calls for the replacement of merit-based federal civil service workers by people loyal to Trump and to take partisan control of key government agencies, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Commerce(DOC), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Other agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security(DHS) and the Department of Education (ED), would be dismantled. It calls for reducing environmental regulations to favor fossil fuels and proposes making the National Institutes of Health (NIH) less independent while defunding its stem cell research. The blueprint seeks to reduce taxes on corporations, institute a flat income tax on individuals, cut Medicare and Medicaid, and reverse as many of President Joe Biden’s policies as possible. It proposes criminalizing pornography, removing legal protections against anti-LGBT discrimination, and ending diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs while having the DOJ prosecute anti-white racism instead. The project recommends the arrest, detention, and mass deportation of illegal immigrants, and deploying the U.S. Armed Forces for domestic law enforcement. The plan also proposes enacting laws supported by the Christian right, such as criminalizing those who send and receive abortion and birth control medications and eliminating coverage of emergency contraception.
Most of Project 2025’s writers and contributors worked in either Trump’s first administration (2017−2021) or his 2024 election campaign. Several Trump campaign officials maintained contact with Project 2025, seeing its goals as aligned with their Agenda 47 program. Trump later attempted to distance himself from the plan. After he won the 2024 election, he nominated several of the plan’s architects and supporters to positions in his second administration. Four days into his second term, analysis by Time found that nearly two-thirds of Trump’s executive actions “mirror or partially mirror” proposals from Project 2025.
Trump denies knowing anything about Project 2025. He, of course, is lying. Same goes for Trump’s cabinet members. They know, and have always known, about Project 2025. It’s official, libertarian theocrats have taken over the country. Their goal is to dismantle the federal government and cause untold harm to state and local governments.
If you want to keep abreast of Project 2025, please check out the Project 2025 Tracker.
The MAGA Trojan horse has been wheeled through the front door of the federal government. I am left to wonder if there is anyone left in Washington to defend our Republic from invasion and destruction.
Bruce Gerencser, 68, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 47 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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I don’t think there are many in government willing to or able to go against this. The House of Representatives under GOP leadership is more than happy to abdicate their jobs and let the MAGA Christian Nationalists and broligarchs dismantle government agencies while Congress fights over 10 trans athletes in college sports. The GOP controlled Senate seems to be just about as willing to abdicate their power too. Some judges are willing to fight, but where’s the enforcement? SCOTUS is willing to be complicit in making the executive branch supreme, abdicating their power as well.
Unless there is huge backlash from the people, change in the House and Senate electing people willing to stand up for balance of power, we are well and truly fucked.
I am sorry for writing so much, but you have given me a place to transmit to someone else my past and my fears for the future. Everyone else says I have a pessimistic outlook and they no longer want to listen.
I agree with you. I was born in 1960, and my father did a teacher exchange with a teacher in Bavaria Germany when I was 5 years old so I went to kindergarten in Germany, learning German at the same time. This has given me a very different perspective on life. At that time, kids just knew somehow you did not ask whose relatives had been pro Nazi.
We kept returning with groups of students in the summers. I saw Dachau concentration camp for the first time when I was 9 years old, To me it looks like we are headed down the fascist trail. We are kicking out immigrants the same way Nazis were putting jews or anyone who disagreed with them in concentration camps. It will be me next. I cannot just shut up.
Republicans also want all federal administrative employees to just be loyal to Trump, nothing about skills etc.
I also have serious medical problems which cost the medicare advantage plan a lot of money. I look fine when you just look at me, but the health problems are there inside.
I wish I had never been born,
Barbara, I have never met you (unless you count this blog and Facebook) but I am glad you are here.
You are so right about where we’re headed. And, as OC points out, everyone who has the power to oppose the MAGA cult is abdicating it–just as members of the Reichstag either did nothing or actively abetted Hitler’s rise to power.
I guess in one way the Fake Tan Fuhrer is telling the truth: According to some who worked with him during his first administration, he doesn’t read anything. So, in that sense, he can claim not to know about Project 2025–except for what his current advisors spoon-feed him.
Thank you for noticing my comment and wriiting back. This is what I need is a place where I can express my needs and fears. If you have any other places on the web I could do this please let me know jacksobl12@gmail.com