Trump Has A Plan To Destroy Democracy. Why Haven't People Heard of It? 🇺🇸 [View all]

Daily Kos, June 19, '24. Ed (231 Rec, 112 Cmt).

Donald Trump's "Project 2025" is a blueprint of right-wing grievances geared toward dismantling or coopting every aspect of the federal government and trampling over the rights of everyone they despise in the process.

For a nation that still prides itself on its exceptionalism, Americans are exceptionally indifferent to the workings of their own government. One explanation for that complacency is that, at least in recent times, our government’s powers have rarely been wielded specifically for the purpose of intimidating and harming American citizens in the manner of less benign societies, such as dictatorships and autocracies.

Republicans now aim to change that, and they are convinced that if Trump is elected in November, he will provide them their moment.

While all Republican administrations since Reagan’s have taken advantage of their stewardship of government to gorge themselves at the public trough, Trump’s first term might have been the most egregious in history. But even Trump’s record of craven political corruption was apparently not enough for the people who now dominate the GOP. While draining public funds through corporate tax cuts and exploiting the country’s surfeit of natural resources is still the GOP’s paramount goal, the opportunity to transform the tools of government into a weapon to attack their political opponents now appears irresistible, particularly if those tools are handed to them by an administration that simply does not care how they are used.

So they’ve created “Project 2025,” a manifesto supported by 100 right-leaning organizations that satisfies those aims while enriching themselves in the process. They know that they have a uniquely clueless and mercurial vessel in Trump. One who is profoundly uninterested in governing, whose only real aim has always been to line his own pockets. So they assume with a reanimated, vengeful Trump in charge they’ll be given free rein to run amok, as long as Trump’s needs are met. That 920-page tome, prepared by the Heritage Foundation, is a blueprint of right-wing grievances geared toward dismantling or coopting every aspect of the federal government and trampling over the rights of everyone they despise in the process.

That includes women, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and just about anyone opposing their white supremacist and Christian nationalist agenda. It’s written broadly to apply to any Republican administration, but most particularly one under Trump, whose name is referenced in the document some 300 times.
Unsurprisingly, few American voters are even aware of the existence of Project 2025, let alone what it portends for their future. It’s a recipe for the total destruction of U.S. democracy through the imposition of a virulent, white, Christian nationalist regime, answerable only to Trump. A poll conducted last month by Global Strategy Group for its Navigator Project indicates fewer than one in four registered voters in this country has heard of Project 2025...More + Comments,
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