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PROJECT 2025 HAS NOT BEEN ‘SHUT DOWN,’ IT IS NOW AGENDA 47 –
STILL A BLUEPRINT FOR FASCISM  
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Markos Moulitsas
July 30, 2024
Daily Kos
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_ Project 2025 is no renamed Agenda 47. The Heritage Foundation is
now pretending to shut down the project, and Trump is pretending that
the issue is going to go away. It’s not. The blue print for fascism
is out there. _

Image credit: Josie Ensor/The Times(UK),

 

As the political press obsessed over President Joe Biden’s
reelection plans earlier this summer, a curious phenomenon developed
on TikTok and other social media outlets. Fueled by a new generation
of online activists
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everyday people began poring over Project 2025, a then-obscure
document from conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation. 

Despite receiving almost no coverage from the mainstream press, the
extensive blueprint for an autocratic government produced by more than
140 current or former members of Donald Trump’s campaign and White
House staff 
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viral. The result: People were so terrified and the electorate found
Project 2025 so repulsive that Trump has spent the past two months
running away from it. 

The Heritage Foundation is now pretending to shut down the project
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and Trump is pretending that the issue is going to go away. It’s
not. 

The general public’s awareness of Project 2025 is remarkable. An
early July poll
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YouGov found that about one-half of U.S. adults had heard of it. Of
course, people lie to pollsters all the time about what they know or
don’t know, so even if the actual number is half that, we’d be
talking about one-quarter of the nation’s 260 million adults, or 65
million people. 

According to the YouGov poll, Project 2025 had a 13% favorable and 64%
unfavorable rating. Among independents, it was 7% favorable and 38%
unfavorable. Even among Republicans, 12% viewed it unfavorably.

Navigator has also polled it. At the end of June, the polling
firm found
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Project 2025 had a 10% favorable and 19% unfavorable rating. By
mid-July, that favorable number stayed steady at 11%, 43% while the
unfavorable rating jumped to 43%. 

Remember, that shift happened despite a dearth of coverage from the
traditional media. Though to be fair, it didn’t hurt when Trump gave
Project 2025 a boost via the “Streisand Effect
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His feigned ignorance of the plan and the people behind it only served
to bring more attention to the shady scheme.

Trump has repeatedly denied any connection to Project 2025, fully
sensing the damage it is doing to his campaign. 

But the widespread disdain seems to have gone beyond the substance of
the plan and morphed into much broader bad _vibes_. Anecdotally,
I’ve had several people mention how terrible Project 2025 is. But
when I ask them for specifics about what’s in it, they don’t know
any details beyond some of the obvious targets (e.g. abortion
restrictions) even though outlets as mainstream as People Magazine
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jumped into the fray to inform readers.

Voters don’t need to know exactly what’s in it: Project 2025 has
become a catch-all term for every horror that conservatives want to
inflict on our country, and quite frankly, they’re not wrong.
It _is_ a horror show
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Trump picked up on that fact as soon as it started to go viral. So
what to do? 

In what seems like an orchestrated effort, Project 2025 director Paul
Dans has reportedly stepped down
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and talk of “pressure” from the Trump campaign has prompted
political reporters like The Daily Beast’s Roger Sollenberger
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“This suggests Project 2025 will likely shut down.” 

 
Project 2025 director Paul Dans speaks at the National Conservative
Conference in Washington, D.C., on July 10, 2024.  (Middle East
Images (AFP  //  Daily Kos)
There are two problems with that. The first is that Project 2025
doesn’t consist of some guy sitting in an office at The Heritage
Foundation’s headquarters. It’s an extremely detailed blueprint,
and it has already been released. You don’t “shut down”
a blueprint. Trump and his extremist cronies have their roadmap for
the complete remaking of the federal government, and it’s ready to
go if Republicans retake the White House in November.

Secondly, there is a lesser-known component to Project 2025: a
database of 20,000 conservative minions ready to be hired and eager to
implement the blueprint’s tenets. And according to The Washington
Post
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that terrifying list isn’t getting “shut down.” 

Hilariously, the Trump campaign claims this news should put to rest
any and all further discussion about Project 2025. 

“President Trump’s campaign has been very clear for over a year
that Project 2025 had nothing to do with the campaign, did not speak
for the campaign, and should not be associated with the campaign or
the President in any way,” the Trump campaign said in a Tuesday
statement. “Reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly
welcomed and should serve as notice to anyone or any group trying to
misrepresent their influence with President Trump and his campaign —
it will not end well for you.”

These weird threats won’t do anything to hide the plain truth:
Trump’s cabal is the embodiment of Project 2025. Pretending to fire
the director and “close down” the project (while keeping that
creepy database alive) won’t change a thing. 

Conservatives were so cocky that they revealed their entire deranged
agenda in that 900-page blueprint. There’s no running away from it
now. 

_[MARKOS MOULITSAS ZÚNIGA is the founder of the Daily Kos political
blog. He is also the coauthor of Crashing the Gate: Netroots,
Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics and has appeared
frequently in the media.]_
 

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