I printed out all 900-plus pgs of #Project2025 in Feb on my home printer, stacking the unwieldy chapters on my desk. Bit by bit, each evening, I read my way through the plans that seek to dramatically alter each #FederalAgency.
Most Americans who know about Project 2025 consume it in bite-size pieces, like Instagram infographics, or see the name on billboards. They hear politicians, like MVP #KamalaHarris, mention it on stage – or #Trump *disavow* it in TV interviews.

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These attempt to neatly distill all the ways the doc could upend the #USgovernment. For #Democrats, #Project2025 has become a buzzword for #election2024, a shorthand way to warn voters what could be ahead if #Trump wins again in Nov.

My own consumption of the project was not as piecemeal – I read the full *#conservative* manifesto by the #HeritageFoundation & its many #rightwing allies. Here’s what I learned from the document & all the controversy surrounding it.

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#Project2025’s #policy guide, Mandate for Leadership, describes an #America poisoned by “#wokeness” & overtaken by lawlessness & #chaos, where *#conservatives* need to SEIZE #power immediately–& FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE–to right a sinking ship.
The guide is just one part of the broader plan Project 2025 & #Heritage had in mind to dismantle the #government, recruit thousands of politically aligned people to staff an incoming #Trump admin, & quickly guide the next pres….

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#Trump has *claimed* he does not know what it is or who is involved, though he does indeed know many of the people involved. Perhaps more importantly, his #policy plans [more] often [than not] align w/what’s in the project.

By seeking to #influence Trump, #Project2025 – which counts >100 *#conservative* groups as supporters & contributors – probably poisoned #Heritage & its allies’ chances of forming part of Trump’s inner circle & potential next admin

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by claiming it could #influence a man who hates to see himself as influenced by others [but don’t count on that, it takes a few ass-kisses & flattering statements & #Trump will be totes cool to let you lick his boots]. Other thinktanks that kept their hands clean of the #power struggle could instead become more influential, though it would be difficult, or impossible, to staff thousands of political jobs w/people who have NO ties to #Heritage or #Project2025.

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#Democrats seized on it, tying #Trump directly to the plan by plastering #Project2025 on billboards & mentioning it in speeches as much as possible. They have been successful–tho the plan was released in 2023, the public’s knowledge of it has increased dramatically in the last 2 mos bc of this negative attn.

Could the ideas in Project 2025 actually happen? Not all of them, & not overnight. But a movement amasses #power that then can lead to massive social change….

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Some of the plans, like dismantling the Dept of #Education, have been on #conservative wishlists since the dept began. That doesn’t mean they couldn’t happen – it just means there is an eventual tipping point where they could. Take the fall of #RoeVWade, for instance.

One way the plan seeks to create more tipping points is by adding in more #PoliticalAppointees, a change #Trump has tried in the past in what’s known as #ScheduleF.

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It would classify thousands more positions in the #FederalGovernment as #political instead of #neutral #career #CivilServants. And the recent #SCOTUS ruling that made #accountability difficult if a president’s *official acts* break the #law certainly helps w/amassing #power in the #ExecutiveBranch, too.

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§ Dismantling #government & elevating #religion

As I have watched & covered #Project2025 & the backlash to it from #Democrats & #Trump’s circle, it has become clear that few have read the document itself. It is at times less aggressive than its detractors would have you believe & at others far more wide-reaching & consequential than a simplistic infographic [could impart].

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It doesn’t say [explicitly] to defund #SocialSecurity, for instance…. But it does say a whole lot else that would affect the daily lives of people in the #US & beyond.

Across multiple #FederalAgencies, it would make access to #abortion INFINITELY more difficult. It would change the name of the Federal #Health & Human Services Dept [#HHS] to the “Department of Life”.

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It would #criminalize #pornography. There would be #MassDeportations & curtailments of LEGAL #immigration programs, including #DACA. It would DISMANTLE the Dept of #Education.

Throughout the #Project2025 manifesto, authors also recommend ways to increase funding for #religious orgs by giving them more access to #government programs–largely through increased use of #school vouchers that could go to religious schools

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or by modifying programs like #SmallBusiness Admin #loans to make #religious groups eligible for funding.

In some parts, the project takes a more explicit #Christian worldview. In the chpt about the Dept of #Labor, the #Project2025 manifesto suggests a communal day of rest for society because “God ordained the Sabbath as a day of rest”.

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