Project 2025 is an out-in-the-open scheme to steer the US toward far-right autocracy...
There is an authoritarian danger that threatens American democracy. It is a separate peril from Donald Trump and his tens of millions of rabid supports. It is the right-wing infrastructure that is publicly plotting to undermine the checks and balances of our constitutional order and concentrate unprecedented power in the presidency. Its efforts, if successful and coupled with a Trump (or other GOP) victory in 2024, would place the nation on a path to autocracy.
Project 2025 is a plan initiated by the Trump allies are pitching a "system overhaul" for the U.S. government in plan called Project 2025 David Corn explains (msnbc.com), a conservative U.S. think tank. It aims to reshape the Executive Branch of the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 United States presidential election. The project is built on four pillars:
Policy Agenda: A comprehensive policy guide for the incoming presidential Administration, offering specific proposals for every major issue facing the country.
Personnel Database: Identifying conservatives from all walks of life to serve in the next conservative Administration.
Training: Turning this talent pool into effective conservative administrators through workshops, seminars, online videos, and mentorship.
180-Day Playbook: A playbook of actions to be taken in the first 180 days of the new Administration to bring quick relief to Americans suffering from the Left’s policies.
The project seeks to recruit thousands to come to Washington, D.C., to replace existing employees and restructure the Executive Branch of the federal government as to further the agenda and policies of Donald Trump. The plan would perform a quick takeover of the entire U.S. federal government under a maximalist version of the unitary executive theory. This theory proposes that the president of the United States should have absolute power over the executive branch.
There’s much more in Project 2025 than eviscerating the civil service. It, too, calls for curbing the independence of the Justice Department and proposes revved-up prosecutions of persons providing or distributing abortion pills by mail. The project urges rolling back environmental regulations, reversing actions to address climate change, and abolishing the Pentagon’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. One chapter that focuses on the Department of Health and Human Services calls on the next president to “maintain a biblically based, social science–reinforced definition of marriage and family.” In other words, the next chief executive should wage a war on marriage equality.
Dozens of conservative outfits—led by the Heritage Foundation—have banded together to produce what they call Project 2025, which has released a 1,000-page report, Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, which provides a blueprint for a wannabe-White-House-autocrat. Their proposals include removing protections for federal employees so perhaps as many as 50,000 could be fired and replaced with Trump (or Republican) loyalists. This would be done under the banner of annihilating the supposed “deep state” bureaucracy and smashing the “administrative state.”
Watch the MSNBC segment discussing Project 2025.
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