Truth is, in law, a complete defense to lies. In politics, it’s numbers, and boy howdy are we getting them. Normally, when I get hold of an active political topic, I can fit the results of a Google search into a story draft. Not this time. Project 2025 is suddenly the hottest topic in searches by far, way above Taylor Swift. We are no longer massively ignorant of what it says and what it means.
Us
THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION’S HISTORIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Biden Harris Issues
I don’t have anything like enough room here for this.
(Google results page 1) Vox, The Hill, WaPo, AP, CBS, Forbes, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Maother Jones, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, (page 2) BBC, CNN, NPR, Democracy Docket, Reuters, YouGov Today, (page 3) Bloomberg, WSJ… (30 pages before they break off, with multiple contributions from many sources).
Just MSNBC: Nicolle Wallace, Ari Melber, Joy Reid, Chris Hayes, Jen Psaki, Rachel Maddow, Alex Wagner, Lawrence O’Donnell, Stephanie Ruhle…
Polling
CAP=Center for American Progress.
Again we don’t have room for all of the portents of DOOM!! for Republicans from this meshugas, which keeps getting worse for them as The People and the campaigns and the Never-Trumpers get on it.
Heritage et al.
Wikipedia: Project 2025
Not to be confused with Donald Trump's package of proposals, Agenda 47.
Project 2025 promotes a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals published by the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican nominee, presumably Donald Trump, win the 2024 presidential election.[3][4] The Project asserts that the entire executive branch is under the direct control of the president under Article II of the U.S. Constitution and unitary executive theory.[5][6] It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with loyalists more willing to enable the next Republican president's policies.[7][8] In doing so, proponents argue that the change would dismantle what they view as a vast, unaccountable, and mostly liberal government bureaucracy.[9] The Project seeks to infuse the government and society with Christian values.[10][11] Critics have characterized Project 2025 as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan to steer the U.S. toward autocracy.[10][12] Many legal experts have said it would undermine the rule of law,[13] the separation of powers,[4] the separation of church and state,[14] and civil liberties.[4][13][15]
Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise (PDF)
Project 2025 Abolish, Eliminate, End, Outlaw, Remove, Shut Down, Privatize…
More than 300 quotes about everything
They Hates FOREVER!!!
This means you.
The Trump Campaign
Wikipedia: Agenda 47
Not to be confused with Project 2025 effort coordinated by the Heritage Foundation.
Agenda 47 is what Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign calls their formal policy plans.[1] According to the Trump campaign, it is "the only official comprehensive and detailed look at what President Trump will do if he returns to the White House".[2] It is presented on the campaign's website in a series of videos with Trump outlining each proposal.[3] According to Philip Bump, some Agenda 47 videos appeared scattershot and responsive to current events around early 2023.[4][5] The proposals appeared to be aimed towards Republican primary voters and slowed down once his primary lead grew in April 2023,[4] to the point where Philip Bump wrote in the Washington Post in June 2024 that neither Trump nor his campaign regularly brings up the plan.[4]
[APP Note: This platform was approved by Republican National Committee's platform committee on July 8, 2024 and released to the public as the final product. The platform is scheduled to be formally adopted at the Republican National Convention on July 15, 2024. Following approval at the Convention, this disclaimer will be removed.]
2024 GOP PLATFORM
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Dedication:
To the Forgotten Men and Women of America
Abraham Lincoln
Imagine
Lincoln at Cooper Union decrying, not the ills of chattel slavery in his time, but the ills of Dobbs enslaving women and girls, and everything else in Project 2025 and the rest in ours.
It’s easy if you try.
I am aware they have not, as yet, in terms, demanded the overthrow of our Free-State Constitutions. ✅ Yet those Constitutions declare the wrong of slavery ✅, with more solemn emphasis, than do all other sayings against it; and when all these other sayings shall have been silenced, the overthrow of these Constitutions will be demanded✅, and nothing be left to resist the demand. ✅ It is nothing to the contrary, that they do not demand the whole of this just now [or pretend to leave certain issues to the States]. Demanding what they do, and for the reason they do, they can voluntarily stop nowhere short of this consummation. ✅ Holding, as they do, that slavery is morally right 🤦, and socially elevating,🤦 they cannot cease to demand a full national recognition of it, as a legal right ,and a social blessing. 🤦
Nor can we justifiably withhold this, on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If ✅ slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away. ✅ If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality - its universality; ✅ if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension - its enlargement. All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; ✅ all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. ✅
Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full recognition, as being right; ✅ but, thinking it wrong, as we do, can we yield to them? ✅ Can we cast our votes with their view, and against our own? In view of our moral, social, and political responsibilities, can we do this? ✅
Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored — contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong,🤦vain as the search for a man who should be neither a living man nor a dead man 🤦— such as a policy of "don't care" on a question about which all true men do care — 🤦 such as Union appeals beseeching true Union men to yield to Disunionists,🤦reversing the divine rule,🤦and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous to repentance —🤦such as invocations to Washington, imploring men to unsay what Washington said,🤦and undo what Washington did.🤦
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by🤦false accusations against us,🤦nor frightened from it🤦by menaces of destruction to the Government,🤦nor of dungeons to ourselves.🤦
LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, ✅ AND IN THAT FAITH, LET US, TO THE END, DARE TO DO OUR DUTY AS WE UNDERSTAND IT. ✅