Project 2025

[John Thomas8]

From Reddit user u/StellerDay:

EVERYONE should know about "Project 2025 - Mandate For Leadership, the Conservative Promise," available at www.project2025.org, the literal Republican playbook, put together by the Heritage Foundation and 45 other conservative entities like Alliance Defending Freedom, Claremont Institute, and Moms For Liberty. It was first handed to Reagan, who merely enacted the policy within it. Same with Trump - they are two heads of the same snake. Their vision for a Christofascist theocracy and just how they intend to implement it are painstakingly detailed.

Their plan is to dismantle the federal government and remove our rights, TO BEGIN WITH. It's fucking chilling and you should at least read the foreword, a dense 17 pages of GOP philosophy that outlines their mission. Fossil fuels are a big part of it. God and guns and nothing else for everyone. Sealed borders. Everyone will be free to live "as our creator ordained," in those words. If that doesn't terrify you idk what will.

From the about page at the link:

The 2025 Presidential Transition Project is being organized by The Heritage Foundation and builds off Heritage’s longstanding “Mandate for Leadership,” which has been highly influential for presidential administrations since the Reagan era. Most recently, the Trump administration relied heavily on Heritage’s “Mandate” for policy guidance, embracing nearly two-thirds of Heritage’s proposals within just one year in office.

Paul Dans, former chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) during the Trump administration, serves as the director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. Spencer Chretien, former special assistant to the president and associate director of Presidential Personnel, serves as associate director of the project.

Seems to be about as anti-American as anything I've seen in my 62 years.

[GlimDropper]

I've never seen a video by Leeja Miller before this one but she gives a good overview on Project 2025. I wish I could dismiss this all as some sort of liberal fear porn but this is the unitary executive theory on steroids in service of a christofascist agenda. Very frightening stuff.

[Flatpoint High]

I'm currently reading the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 materials. one is from 1992 and is apparentlly a DIA paper and the 2nd is "mandate for leadership - the conservative promise" haven't started on that as of yet. anyone interested in discussing and figuring out how to counter it with more than keyboard warrioring?

https://ia800905.us.archive.org/27/item ... ct2025.pdf

https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

[John Thomas8]

viewtopic.php?p=220790&hilit=project+2025#p220790

[p0rtia]

Holy cow.

Kevin Roberts, head of the Heritage Foundation, is on The Weekend Show (MSNBC) discussing Project 2025. Simone Sanders, Micheal Steele, and Alicia Menendez are tag-teaming him to extremely good effect.

Roberts is spewing racism, autocracy, hate, twisted information, cherry-picking, threats, and did I say racism and h ate?

This is the most chilling thing I have heard on TV this year. And I am so damn glad they have him on to get it on the record what this Nazi is planning. 50,000 civil servants canned, "And more than that" if they can. Donating to a democrat is grounds for removal. Get your deportation camps ready for millions. He uses the name of a girl murdered by an immigrant; Steele points out that crime rates in TX are much, much lower for immigrants: "Tell that to her parents," Roberts says. "You're blaming 11 million for the bad acts of a few," says Steele (paraphrase). And on and on. And abortion (oy oy oy). And on and on.

He claimed that 2020 was stolen. He claimed huge lists of illegal votes. Saunders pops up with a Heritage Foundation doc saying there were some 1,000 proven cases of illegal voting since _1980_. "Well, they're hard to prove," says Roberts. JHK.

Steele wraps up by talking about extremism when it comes to rights and liberties. He's good, but he's underestimating the power of that interview.

Wow.

Must see TV.

And here it is:

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-vi ... 3497413811

ETA: Twitter comments (happy to see so many as shocked and pleased as I was):

https://x.com/SymoneDSanders/status/1804542695739723933

[AndyinPA]

We should have had a topic on this by now. Thanks for starting it. I will have to check out the link.

[pipistrelle]

The “conservative” Heritage Foundation is nonpartisan. Huh.

[northland10]

IIRC, the ACA (Obamacare) was essentially drawn from Heritage's suggested alternative to HilaryCare. Now the fight hates it. Sort of makes them bi-partisan, I guess.

I assume they are against their own proposal now.

[W. Kevin Vicklund]

IIRC, the ACA (Obamacare) was essentially drawn from Heritage's suggested alternative to HilaryCare. Now the fight hates it. Sort of makes them bi-partisan, I guess.

I assume they are against their own proposal now.

As implemented by Republican Governor Romney (RomneyCare).

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[AndyinPA]

[raison de arizona]

Somebunny should link the John Oliver explainer here, it is really quite well done. I fergit which thread I saw it in.

[John Thomas8]

This one is from yesterday:

[raison de arizona]

From the horse's mouth.

To my conservative friends in the Republican Party:

This is the President of the Heritage Foundation.

He made it clear this morning that a priority of a second Trump term is to essentially eliminate the Republican Party — and instead transform the entire GOP into MAGA.

They don’t want to go back to the Reagans, the Bushes, the Cheneys, & they certainly don’t want the Haleys & the Romneys.

“By institutionalizing Trumpism, what we’re saying is that even though we are known as Ronald Reagan’s think tank … that’s 40 years ago.”

“Right now, Donald Trump, whether someone likes it or not, I happen to like it, is the standard bearer for conservatism.” 1/

Moar at link.

ALSO, FULLER 12 MINUTE CLIP: https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/1804516454727057607

[raison de arizona]

Somebunny should link the John Oliver explainer here, it is really quite well done. I fergit which thread I saw it in.

Watch this video delivered by John Oliver. Show it to every person you know. Project 2025 straight up ends democracy. Your most important contacts- swing states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin. Please share!

[raison de arizona]

A few highlights.

[raison de arizona]

Another good explainer at the link.
https://x.com/GalvinAlmanza/status/1807195762192724403

You may have heard the term “Project 2025” floating around, and you may even have cracked open the 900+ page document yourself, only to see a lot of kind of bland, policy-wonk text. So let me crack through the policy-speak and tell you WTF is in this document.

This is, um, a long thread. But if you want a lot of info about Project 2025, all in one place, you've come to the right place.

[raison de arizona]

People aren't sleeping on this. We are woke. Keep it up!

Preach @TarajiPHenson!

Project 2025 is a REAL threat to all of us. Every part of it is a wrecking ball for our lives, our families, and our rights. #BETAwards

[Suranis]

It's basically the John Birch Society.

And they have gotten the left distracted with the abortion (and possibly trans) crap that they don't care about, and are sneaking the other stuff under the radar. And when they have gotten what they wanted, I suspect they will magnanimously allow you to get your "Abortion rights" back, tell their Influencers to hell that you have won and saved America, and then chuckle hard as you look confused at the millstone that's still just as heavy around your neck.

[raison de arizona]

Trump's Project 2025 leader: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be”