Resist MAGA Takeover Plans - Project 2025
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Have you heard of Project 2025, the collection of MAGA policy proposals and power grabs crafted by the Heritage Foundation, other right-wing organizations, and Trump advisors? They intend to reshape the federal government and quickly impose these MAGA policy proposals as soon as Trump takes office.
The president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, hailed the Supreme Court decision in Trump v. U.S. that conferred immunity on the president for “official acts.” He boasted that that decision and Project 2025 are leading to a “second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” a clear threat to anyone who dares oppose it. Roberts is closely affiliated with Hungary’s authoritarian leader, Viktor Orban, who is a Putin ally.
Trump says that he wants to be a dictator on day 1. Project 2025 is the blueprint for him to do so.
**Many thanks to Mary Chaffin for her research on this important topic.
Here are just a few of Project 2025’s lowlights:
Trump would overturn the civil service system, put in place over 100 years ago to stop corruption and cronyism, by reclassifying tens of thousands of merit-based federal civil service workers as political appointees. Trump would exact “retribution” against apolitical federal employees, who would be replaced by cronies willing to implement Trump’s demands, even if they are illegal! Trump already tried to do this in 2020, but his executive order was overturned by Biden when he took office. This time Trump would succeed.
The Heritage Foundation has already created a database of potential replacement employees and has established a training program to guarantee that these new employees will be loyal to the president and adhere totally to the program’s objectives and goals.
Trump could take partisan control of Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This together with the Supreme Court immunity decision would enable Trump to implement an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan to transform the United States into an autocracy, infusing the government with the tenets of Christianity.
Project 2025 would expand the use of the Insurrection Act of 1807, which authorizes the president to use the military for domestic law enforcement purposes.
Trump could direct the now-subservient DOJ to misapply the zombie Comstock Act, which bans the transmission of “obscene” materials through the mails, to prohibit the delivery of abortion medication by mail.
Project 2025 proposes sharply reducing environmental and climate change regulations to favor fossil fuel production even though the US is energy self-sufficient. Funding for climate research would be cut.
It calls for more tax cuts to benefit the wealthiest while cutting social, programs, including the VA.
It would cut Social Security by raising the retirement age and adjusting downward cost of living adjustments.
Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act would also be on the chopping block.
Project 2025 is larded throughout with divisive culture war language like “woke agenda,” “climate fanaticism,” “radical Left,” and “flyover country.”
It would abolish the Department of Education for purely ideological reasons and divert taxpayer funds to support private religious schools.
It would remove legal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and terminate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, as well as affirmative action.
It would abolish the Federal Reserve.
Responding to recent harsh criticism of the extremist Project 2025, Trump has recently tried to disavow it. But his own allies and advisors participated in creating it, and it closely tracks his past statements. We can’t believe Trump because he lies about everything. Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer refused to answer a question about her position on Project 2025 at her so-called tele town hall on June 25.
Our democracy is now at great risk. We are under attack by forces allied with authoritarian Orban and dictator Putin. We cannot put in power those who would destroy it.
To learn more about Project 2025, read about it here and help spread the word!
Inside Project 2025 - Boston Review
Project 2025 Is A Blueprint For Business Disaster (forbes.com)
Project 2025 | Presidential Transition Project
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