#Project2025 Is Dead. Long Live Project 2025.

#Trump, #Vance and the #hateful horizons of “#TradFuturism.”

by Sarah Riccardi-Swartz July 31, 2024
Published in #InTheseTimes

Excerpt: "When news came several weeks ago that Trump had chosen Ohio Sen. #JDVance as his running mate for the 2024 presidential election, my X (formerly Twitter) feed was abuzz with commentary about the selection. Out of the various comments, criticism and praise heaped upon the Hillbilly Elegy author and onetime ​'#NeverTrumper' was the assessment of #DarrellScott, pastor of a Cleveland Heights, Ohio, church ministry and one of Trump’s former spiritual advisors.

" 'JD Vance is not only the pick for today, but also for the future,' Scott proclaimed. ​'He will be the presumptive nominee for President in 2028, and will keep the #MAGA movement going, retaining Trump as an advisor/​consigleri [sic]. Rubio, Haley, Burgum, Carson, etc wouldn’t.'

"Scott’s emphasis on MAGA’s future vitality caught my eye as a prime example of a phenomenon I call trad futurism, with the Trump campaign’s selection of Vance serving as part of a world-building project aimed at creating a future for the United States that is not founded on the principles of democracy and freedom but rather on #Identitarian politics and the policing of people and bodies that don’t conform to so-called #TraditionalValues.
Trad futurism is a moral project that unites ideologically disparate #RightWing groups to craft a world in opposition to secular progressive democracy.

"What is trad futurism? Trad is shorthand for #traditionalist / #​traditionalism. Recently, there has been broad discussion of far-right groups like ​'trad wives' on TikTok or ​'#RadTrad' young Catholics. Trad futurism is part of that conversation, but it’s not just about a return to the simple life or a Latin Mass. Rather it’s a moral project that unites ideologically disparate right-wing groups to craft a world in opposition to secular progressive #democracy.

"Right-wing writer #RodDreher’s 2017 book #TheBenedictOption, which urged Christians to withdraw from a corrupted world into cloistered purist communities of the faithful, is one type of trad future: small and local. But some trad futurist projects are far more expansive, aimed at creating a ​'#moral' future for America, in which laws and social policies reflect the ​'traditional values' of conservative Christianity. Throughout the United States, various groups of traditionalists are doing their part to build that world.

"#ChristianNationalists position their values as American values. Institutions, including the massive #Heritage Foundation and countless otherconservative lobbying groups, are courting right-wing leaders and crafting manifestos for their ideal vision of the country’s future."

Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/project-2025-trump-vance-traditionalist-republican

#USPol #Gilead #TradWives #MakeAmericaHateAgain #ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascism