This horrific document has been getting a lot of attention recently with the concern that Biden may not be reelected. I haven't read the entire 900 page tome, but I've read several sections, and yes, it's just as bad as they say.
However, a lot of this is just standard Republican fantasy. Trump will probably invoke Schedule F and replace around 50,000 federal employees involved in policy with the hacks the Heritage Foundation is interviewing right now. However, many of the Project 2025 proposals would require a constitutional amendment, or the cooperation of both houses of Congress, or reversals from courts that have already declared parts of it to be unconstitutional. The briefs challenging it are already being written.
Trump has claimed no involvement with it despite the contributions of several of his former staff members like Ken Cuccinelli and Ben Carson, and the document's mention of him several times. A different plan, Agenda 47, is Trump's own policy proposal. It includes hilarity like funding for the development of flying cars and "freedom cities" to be established in undeveloped areas. It also includes idiocy like forbidding most trade with China, declaring Mexican drug cartels to be foreign terrorist organizations, and sending the National Guard to quell unrest in cities (doesn't that happen already?), and straight-up bigotry like making it a crime to discuss gender with a minor.
If anyone is worried that Trump's reelection will mean there won't ever be free elections in America again, there's no need to panic. There are simply too many entrenched interests in the current system for the country to turn into a dictatorship in four years, especially with an incompetent fool like Trump at the helm.
If it sounds like I'm resigned to a Trump victory, I kind of am at this point. I don't see any way for Biden to turn this around or for some white knight to ride in and save the day. It's simply too late for anyone else to spin up a campaign in the time remaining. I would advise the DNC to concentrate on House and Senate races and to look ahead to increasing the Democratic congressional majority in 2026 with an eye to recapturing the White House in 2028 when, one way or another, Trump will no longer be a factor.
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I'm sure there are some people here who will agree with some of those policies. Personally, I don't like DEI programs. But are you ok with ALL of those things? And are you ok with a dictatorship, so that if some of these policies turn out really bad, we won't be able to overturn them?
@BohemianBabe A second Trump term will do a lot of damage, but I don't think he has the initiative or intelligence to pull off most of this, much less turn the US into a dictatorship. There are too many interests to allow that, even on the Republican side.
@BohemianBabe One thing I'll give Trump credit for is destroying DeSatan's future political career. I don't think Rhonda could win a Senate seat in Florida.
He also won't be Trump's VP since they're from the same state and it's too much of a risk in case the election comes down to Florida and the delegates can only vote for one of them.
@LeopoldBloom It probably won't be DeSantis, but if they're able to destroy the administrative state, they could replace Trump with anyone. It would be unconstitutional to replace him with someone other than the veep, but so what? The people in charge of upholding the Constitution will be far-right Republicans who don't care about checks and balances.
@LeopoldBloom We'll see. Fascism has a long history of entrenched Conservatives going along with the Fascists, while the entrenched Liberals do nothing outside of campaigning to win democratically against people destroying the democratic institution.
