Project 2025 rebranded as a ‘transition project’, but it’s the same right-wing fantasy as before

Ever hear of Project 2025?  If not, per­haps that’s not unusu­al con­sid­er­ing that those who for­mu­lat­ed the doc­u­ment have been, and are, try­ing des­per­ate­ly to keep it and its con­tents out of the pub­lic view.

Project 2025 is a 922-page doc­u­ment more pre­cise­ly titled the 2025 Presidential Transition Project.  It is a doc­u­ment put togeth­er by ultra-right-wingers and fund­ed large­ly by the Federalists Society and the Heritage Foundation. The doc­u­ment out­lines poli­cies that should guide the next elect­ed con­ser­v­a­tive President and his admin­is­tra­tion.  Obviously, since it is labeled Project 2025, the back­ers of it are hop­ing that Trump will be the per­son imple­ment­ing its policies.

And unless you think sug­gest­ing that this doc­u­ment is put togeth­er by “ultra-right-wingers” too extreme, con­sid­er some of the pro­pos­als in it.

• Allow gov­ern­ment agen­cies to privatize
• Audit the bud­get of the VA (like­ly mak­ing it hard­er for vet­er­ans to qual­i­fy for benefits)
• Eliminate the Department of Education (Trump’s appointee, Betsy DeVos would have been hap­py to accom­plish this and the Heritage Foundation is push­ing for pub­lic fund­ing for char­ter schools across the country)
• Strict fed­er­al abor­tion ban, includ­ing access to Mifepristone (isn’t this in strict con­tra­dic­tion to Trump’s per­pet­u­al claim that abor­tion pol­i­cy is best left to the states/)
• Make con­tra­cep­tion and birth con­trol ille­gal and enforce the Comstock Act to pros­e­cute those who send or receive con­tra­cep­tives through the mail
• Allow place­ment of chil­dren in adop­tion if their home doesn’t have bio­log­i­cal father and moth­er who con­ceived them
• Eliminate Head Start Program
• Allow schools to treat black and white stu­dents dif­fer­ent­ly for the same offense
• Prevent schools from teach­ing CRT
• Allow work­place discrimination
• Strip author­i­ty from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Shrink or elim­i­nate the Department of Homeland Security
• Remove any lim­i­ta­tions for ICE to detain and export “aliens” (includ­ing those from oth­er planets?)
• Allow states to opt out of the NLRB to weak­en unions
• Consider all DEI ini­tia­tives to be discrimination
• Cut Medicare and Medicaid
• Stop fed­er­al fund­ing for embry­on­ic stem cell research
• Alter cli­mate change reg­u­la­tions to favor fos­sil fuels (drill, baby, drill)
• Take par­ti­san con­trol of the DOJ, FBI, FCC and FTC
• Deploy the mil­i­tary for domes­tic law enforce­ment (typ­i­cal third-world activity)

The Trump cam­paign has made efforts to dis­as­so­ci­ate itself from Project 2025, but it is plain­ly obvi­ous that only a con­ser­v­a­tive­ly run gov­ern­ment would ever be recep­tive to most of the rec­om­men­da­tions con­tained in this trea­tise.  In fact, some of those involved in fab­ri­cat­ing Project 2025 were mem­bers of the Trump admin­is­tra­tion.  It’s entire­ly like­ly that they could be brought back into anoth­er one.

If you have the time and incli­na­tion to read a 922-page doc­u­ment, you might find a good many oth­er pro­pos­als as rad­i­cal as these.  Then you could decide if this is the type of gov­ern­ment you want for this country.