For your consideration if you haven’t yet voted in your state’s primary election. And even if you have.
The following post first appeared here on July 11, 2024. Nothing has changed in the interim. At least not for the better. Think about it. Much that’s happened in the last two years was part of the plan.
Your vote this year, in your state’s primary and in November’s general election, is your chance to stop Trump and stop Project 2025. By helping to elect Democratic majorities to both the House and the Senate, you can put a halt to the systematic, deliberate destruction of our democracy.
Last night Stephen Colbert talked about Project 2025 — humorously, of course. Nevertheless, in doing so he brought it to the attention of millions. And in that he did the nation a great service.
Never heard of Project 2025? Not sure what it’s all about? Then you need to do a little reading.
Check out The Guardian for several articles. I suggest you start with Robert Reich’s “We should all be terrified of Trump’s Project 2025.”
The New Republic calls Project 2025 “a remarkably detailed guide to turning the United States into a fascist’s paradise” and says “These 900 pages lay out a Christian nationalist vision of the United States, one in which married heterosexuality is the only valid form of sexual expression and identity; all pregnancies would be carried to term, even if that requires coercion or death; and transgender and gender-nonconforming people do not exist.”
The Associated Press reported last August:
… the idea is to have the civic infrastructure in place on Day One to commandeer, reshape and do away with what Republicans deride as the “deep state” bureaucracy, in part by firing as many as 50,000 federal workers.
Or get it straight from the source, the Heritiage Foundation. It’s their baby and Trump’s. It’s what the far right intends to do when Trump is reelected.
Trump denies any knowledge of the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025. He’s been trying to distance himself in order to appeal to more moderate voters in November. But don’t be fooled; his fingerprints are all over it. His ideas pervade every page. (If nothing else, it’s telling that his longtime policy advisor Stephen Miller is deeply involved.)
Wikipedia neatly sums up the Project’s main points. Or you could read the entire 922-page manifesto for yourself. Just don’t miss, on page 15 of the introduction:
“Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State.”
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Header image: Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg / Getty
Yep, they’re well on their way to deconstruction, too.
Bastards, all of ’em.
Don’t let these old men in.
We have to vote out the Trump supporters that are in there, and replace them with thoughtful, responsible people who support their constituents and the welfare of the nation over obeisance to Trump.
P.S. Happy Birthday!
so incredibily important!
It really is. I don’t know that we’ll have a country left if Trump is allowed to serve out the remainder of his term. He, his Supreme Court, and his lackeys everywhere need to be stopped.
And let’s not forget the Epstein Files.
Project 2025 is, in a word, Orwellian. It could have been more aptly titled “Project 1984.”
I couldn’t immediately distinguish “Orwellian” from “dystopian,” so did a brief bit of research. Came up with this quote from “1984” and thought it apropos:
“In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.”