The fascists believed that you have to destroy to create,
and this is what a second Trump administration would do.
Project 2025 is a plan for an authoritarian takeover of the United States that goes by a deceptively neutral name.
It preserves Trumpism’s original radical intent in its goals to “[d]ismantle the administrative state” and “decentralize and privatize as much as possible,” allowing the American people to “live freely.”
“[T]he Trump administration, with the best of intentions, simply got a slow start,” Heritage Foundation head #Kevin#Roberts told The New York Times in January. “And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.”
The solution to this “slow start”
—code for the restraints imposed by operating in a democracy
—is counterrevolution.
The plan promises the abolition of the Department of Education and other federal agencies.
The intent here is to destroy the legal and governance cultures of liberal democracy and create new bureaucratic structures,
staffed by new politically vetted cadres,
to support autocratic rule.
So new agencies could appear to manage parents’ and family rights, Christian affairs, and other pillars of the new order.
🔥The Department of Health and Human Services is poised to have a central role in governance, 👉😱given the priorities Trumpism places on policing sexuality, weaponizing motherhood, persecuting transgender people and LGBTQ communities, and criminalizing abortion.
Greg Olear continues his valuable reporting on the coterie of hard-right Catholics who have such influence on our federal government and who control the Supreme Court as a bloc. The coterie includes Leonard Leo, who is the kingmaker for the court, Kevin Roberts of Heritage Foundation, and Robert P. George of the Federalist Society.