Project 2025 is a playbook to establish the United States as a rightwing authoritarian state. This is not hyperbole. This is a real thing. Included in their agenda are actions such as “defunding the Department of Justice, dismantling the FBI, breaking up the Department of Homeland Security and eliminating the Departments of Education and Commerce.” (From the 30th chapter of Project 2025, a Mandate for Leadership).
If you’re not scared, you should be. In this “plan” the president would have complete power over quasi-independent agencies such as the FCC, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies. Think the end of free speech, diverse communication and independent news. The loss of free speech and independent news outlets is a foundation of the playbook for biased and one-sided communication to stifle opposing opinions to the authoritarian agenda of the next Republican president, regardless of who it is.
Project 2025 offers proposals to deregulate targeted industries, privatize government functions and help American corporations make more money at the expense of American workers, the middle class and everyone except the oligarchs and the one percent. Advances in environmental protection, rights for women and LGBTQI persons will disappear. Science will become the enemy and the planet will suffer in ways that are not sustainable.
The brainchild of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank funded by dark money, Project 2025 will end democracy as we know it. The constitution will be gutted, and free elections will be a thing of the past.
Far right conservatives and the Heritage Foundation have an extensive enemies list that includes “welfare recipients, lazy and liberal civil servants, anti-business regulators, environmentalists, union bosses, scientist, woke bureaucrats and educators, woke diplomats, generals and admirals and who don’t indulge the Republican presidents every whim.” (From the Far Right Has a Plan to Remake America)
According to Michiganadvance.com “America is at an inflection point, vacillating on a knife’s edge because of Trump, who has tapped into a deep reservoir of grievance, hatred and resentment…Trump’s incendiary rhetoric—mirroring Hitler and Mussolini—is convincing observers that he’s a fascist, to add to his authoritarian bent.”
In addition, a number of critics charge, during “Trump’s Revenge Tour,” he and his allies are determined to establish a rightwing, authoritarian theocratic white nationalist government.
This should be a cause for deep concern. Free and fair elections will be a thing of the past, there will be no peaceful transfer of power and the United States will be subject to a sexist, racist, white nationalist agenda for the foreseeable future. Author and legal analyst James Zirin said in an op-ed in The Hill on November 13 “Trump wants to terminate the Constitution to restore himself to power, an insurrectionary act in and of itself. That would be in the hands of the president with neither checks nor balances.”
Alex Aronson, executive director of Court Accountability, a nonpartisan judicial research and advocacy organization, said “Americans should be working assiduously and in concert to confront, disrupt and obliterate this insidious plot. Project 2025 is a plan to destroy the US government. It’s an enormous problem, a huge problem the U.S. government isn’t standing up to this moment. It’s complicated and speaks to some tensions on the Left.”
If you have never heard of Project 2025, you need to educate yourself immediately and take the advice of trusted centrist leaders who can guide us out of this quicksand. If we get into it, there will be no way out.
The Irreverent Reverend 
Hi, Pat. Great post. I had read about this a couple of months ago and was, of course, shocked and dismayed. Amazed that a plan emanating from the Heritage Foundation could have gotten this far without there being tons of public awareness and uproar. What gives with that? Where’s the communication from the center – or the left? From mainstream media?
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