Project 2025 is the Trump agenda, Republicans are gleefully declaring
Donald Trump and his presidential campaign have repeatedly denied any connection to Project 2025, a radical blueprint created by the far-right Heritage Foundation to entirely rebuild the executive branch of the federal government on a Christian nationalist foundation. But now that the election is over and Trump has won the White House, several far-right influencers allege that Project 2025 is Trump’s agenda.
Project 2025 is so toxic its creator, Paul Dans, was eliminated from the project. Public opinion gives Project 2025 a single-digit approval rating, according to NBC News:
"It was the least popular of all the subjects tested in the September NBC News poll — a battery that included socialism, capitalism, both presidential and vice presidential candidates, the Republican and Democratic parties, Taylor Swift and Elon Musk."
The Project 2025 blueprint, a 900-page "manifesto," according to The Guardian, "describes an America poisoned by 'wokeness' and overtaken by lawlessness and chaos, where conservatives need to seize power immediately – and for as long as possible – to right a sinking ship."
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Project 2025 would effectively make abortion and contraception extremely difficult to obtain, would make pornography illegal, and elevate Christian nationalism throughout the government. It would eliminate the Dept. of Education. It would create a massive forced deportation program, removing possibly millions of undocumented immigrants from the U.S. And it would reduce efforts to improve diversity, while restricting and reducing LGBTQ rights and protections.
"Republicans are now comfortable openly admitting that Project 2025 was the plan all along," Rolling Stone reports after Trump won the election. "Sure enough, less than 24 hours after the election was called for Trump, his allies, advisers, and prominent supporters were celebrating the now-open road to Project 2025’s implementation."
Mother Jones notes that after Trump won the White House, some of his "favorite fans finally felt comfortable joking about what the next president has long denied: Project 2025 has always been the plan for a second Trump term."
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Matt Walsh, the far-right podcaster with millions of followers on several platforms, wrote: "Now that the election is over I think we can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda. Lol."
The New Republic reports, "Project 2025 has begun. And Donald Trump’s allies are now openly celebrating it."
"Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who was recently released from prison, responded on his live War Room podcast with one word: 'Fabulous,'" TNR added. "Later during the livestream, Bannon could be seen holding a hard copy of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 'Mandate For Leadership' up to the camera in celebration. On election night, Bannon had vowed to eliminate Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, MSNBC, and the Justice Department in an unhinged rant."
“Now, you’re going to pay the price,” Bannon said.
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