Project 2025: The GOP Blueprint for Killing Democracy

Since Donald Trump’s shocking victory in 2016, we’ve become weary of hearing that each election is “the most important of our lifetimes.” But in 2024, democracy itself is truly on the ballot. If Trump is elected this time, the results will be much worse.

Trump’s first term was limited by his incompetence and government officials who valued the rule of law. This time, Trump’s minions are feverishly preparing to “hit the ground running” with the goal of holding power permanently. Project 2025 documents their goals and is backed by a who’s who of ultra-right organizations.

As its Wikipedia entry puts it,

Project 2025 seeks to place the entire Executive Branch of the U.S. federal government under direct presidential control, eliminating the independence of the DOJ, the FBI, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and other agencies … Project 2025 proposes that all Department of State employees in leadership roles should be dismissed by the end of the day on January 20, 2025. It calls for installing senior State Department leaders in “acting” roles that do not require Senate confirmation.

Additionally, Project 2025 hopes to replace tens of thousands of civil service employees. To this end, it is compiling a personnel database of thousands individuals who have been vetted for ideological purity and loyalty.

Here’s an excerpt from the Chicago Sun-Times article Project 2025 is Trump’s blueprint to get rid of democracy and the rule of law:

In a second term, there won’t be any officials who place the rule of law above Trumpism.

The agenda proposed in Project 2025 is grisly:

  • Dismantling the foundations of immigration policy, tearing families apart, turning away desperate refugees and stripping away protections for Dreamers
  • Undermining climate change mitigation, environmental justice and the transition to clean energy
  • Eliminating racial justice initiatives and preserving advantages for white Americans, even perverting the Justice Department’s civil rights division to “investigate and prosecute all state and local governments, institutions of higher education, corporations and any other private employers” with diversity, equity, and inclusion policies
  • Gutting public education, wiping out Head Start and other support for low-income students and withdrawing federal oversight of public schools
  • Slashing health care insurance, putting 18 million Americans at risk of losing coverage entirely, killing the drug price provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act and Affordable Care Act’s protections for preexisting conditions.
  • Shutting down access to safe abortions, contraception and other reproductive health care, putting women’s lives at risk
  • Deleting “sexual orientation and gender identity” from all federal rules, reinstating a transgender military ban and limiting LGBTQ workplace discrimination protections

As disturbing as this agenda is, the most alarming and repellent policy proposal contained within Project 2025 is the restructuring of the federal government, eliminating the kind of public servants who stopped Trump from completely disassembling the Department of Veterans Affairs, overcame his resistance to expelling Russian spies, deterred him from shooting racial justice protesters, derailed his plan to deploy the military against migrants and kick undocumented children out of schools and deflected his suggestion to drop nuclear bombs into the eyes of hurricanes.

Trump has recently tried to distance himself from Project 2025, but this is a deception. He has his own plan, “Agenda 47”, which is essentially identical to Project 2025. Here’s a comparison:

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  • The Road to Tyranny – Project 2025, July 11, 2024 -7-8:30 p.m. Learn what’s in Project 2025, where we are, who is working to counter it, resources, and actions you can take.  Registration link events.democrats.org/event/636728

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