Will the Right be able to implement these radical plans? Is Trump on board? What happened to traditional conservatism? Let’s tackle some of the key questions surrounding “Project 2025”
Stop The Coup 2025 is a nonpartisan campaign is educating the public and tracking the fight against Project 2025 w easy-to-grasp breakdowns of the key attacks in every gov department and more . Plus resources, strategies to fight back. Www.stopthecoup2025.org. - ac
This needs to be translated i to Spanish and designated far and wide! Do you have an audience on threads, Insta? We need Spanish speakers because they r the ones being targeted the most at this time. Great article!
Trump is the useful idiot to bring along the base vote and the militias waiting in the wings if the rest of us resist our new "Christian" nation. My crazy theory is that once the useful idiot is in power, they (Heritage Foundation, etc) will find a way to get rid of him permanently with some plausible cover accident in order to put a hand picked VP in the top dog spot. The Supreme Court is ready and willing to put a theocracy in place and that theocracy will be radical Catholic in its workings. Yet, Americans go on an on about the radical fundamentalist evangelicals. The evangelicals are the useful idiots of the radical Catholics. These are all my guesses and I hope to God I am wrong on all accounts. I'm glad people are finally paying attention to religious radicals of all stripes. My fear is that we are about ten years too late to this fight.....I'm following any and all people dissecting Project 2025. Better to face reality now than get hit upside the head with it later unaware.
Thank you, Tom, for another excellent piece laying out what's at stake in the upcoming presidential election. You're a Dorothy Thompson for the new millennium!
Like you, I live in DC. As a federal employee, I fear that (much as in 2016) my otherwise very smart and socially conscious colleagues and friends have no idea of the threat that Trump poses, not only to the world, but to their own families, careers, and livelihoods. The naivete, largely instilled by privileged upbringings, scares the shit out me.
I’ve been in panic mode since first learning about Project 2025. After readings the entire published plan and many articles and Op-Ed pieces. I an getting the “we are fuc..ed nightmares.
The first thing, I noticed is that many of the components will directly and more severely impact, the poor, people of color, single parents, recent immigrants, people who live in poorer rural areas, the LGBTQ community, and people who for some reason wind up on a “hit list.”
The financial social services will be easiest to implement as local, state and federal programs will lose a significant portion of their budgets. Deny them food, rent subsidies, medical care, employment and training opportunities and you can. Bringing people to their knees pretty damn fast? And that control makes people desperate and easier to conquer. Add in eligibility restrictions related to race, marital status, and religious requirements and people will be standing in line begging.
Our country will be devastated as good people will be sharing what they have with those who have not. Conditions will feel like during the peak of the pandemic. These actions won’t need Trump’s ok, but will help him segregate our citizen and immigrant populations. Easier to ship the “undesirable” to “work camp” aka concentration camps.
Our legal system is sagging now because of the bias right judiciary. Finding relief through the courts will be a long bard, crapshoot. SCOTUS will be able to keep their bribe commitments.
I could rant for hours but my belief’s are in a nutshell.
The general population will be gobbedsmacked as they will be uninformed and deluded.
Many of the people throughout levels of government will be in agreement.
Only bits and pieces of the plan need to be working immediately to destabilize the country.
Our military and police have already been infiltrated by the various hate groups i.e. MAGA.
Once Trump’s new evil advisors will be able to point out the advantages for him personally.
Evangelical churches will continue to be weaponized.
MSM will be taken over (or surrendered?).
Resources will become government property (water, electricity, etc.) under the guise of “protecting” it.
I sure sound dark and without hope. But America is not without experience in the horrible ways Fascism and Authoritarianism works. We even imprisoned Japanese Americans by one of the best presidents ever. The racism of the south will rear its ugly head and “Northerners” be divided by it.
This could be possible and we must not let the Plan divide us any more to “normalize, evil.
Good people will stand up and there is a lot of us.
Is Donald Trump on board? Trump doesn't need to be on board with anything. He is merely a useful distraction (who came about by chance) for this plan, a plan Paul Weyrich clearly laid out back in 2001. "Project 2025" in its current iteration is not new. It is 24 years old. The problem is that people who should know more about the real game being played do not know. In attempting to maintain their Establishment credentials, they think the system is still viable. The American political system is broken, and it has been broken by design by both political parties.
What anti-Christian bias? When has a Christian ever been denied a job or housing or a loan because of their religion? When have they been illegally surveilled in their churches? When have they been barred from flights because they have a "Christian-sounding" name? When have they been targeted with harassment and violence just because they happen to "look Christian"? What laws have been passed to keep any and all aspects of "Biblical law" from becoming part of juris prudence?
What bias are they actually experiencing? How can they even make that claim, and so strongly that they engage in histrionics of this level?
Thank you Professor Zimmer, absolutely the best breakdown of the 2025 Plan I’ve read yet. I’m grateful for your thoughtful insights. It’s helped me solidify my plans to get the Dem vote out in November.
Though I read this good essay in its entirety, it is a bit long and repetitive. The word “reactionary” was used 14 times, by my rough count. What is described here is better termed “American Fascism v2.0”. It has been the fever dream going back 100 years as v1.0, back when the KKK held strong political influence in the South and even in major northern cities such as New York and even where I live, Denver.
Nowhere in this essay is the word “fascism” used, nor is “racism” charged. Nor is “bigotry” mentioned. Finally, it would be helpful as describing the Project 2025 movement as one to enhance oligarchy and wealth concentration via militant use of rightwing culture wars. The working class white conservatives are fooled into voting against their interests in this manner.
In that light, swing voters could see this essay as a clarion call and warning that America is lurching toward an autocratic fascist state, one that should make every reasonable American shudder. Trumpism turned into Fascism is what’s in store for the second half of the 2020’s and beyond, unless the swing voters in swing states prevent it.
The only hope I hold out is that republicans are incapable of agreeing on almost everything except tax cuts and abortion. After they have been completely incapable of governing.
Trump will do only what’s good for Trump, aka revenge and revenue replenishment
Whew! It's exhausting but necessary to discus this. Project 2025 is something we absolutely have to stand against as, at its core, it's anti-democratic. US democracy is not perfect, it is insufficient since it doesn't really include everyone, but we have to work to make it broader and stronger. Keep fighting the good fight with your essays.
Stop The Coup 2025 is a nonpartisan campaign is educating the public and tracking the fight against Project 2025 w easy-to-grasp breakdowns of the key attacks in every gov department and more . Plus resources, strategies to fight back. Www.stopthecoup2025.org. - ac
Did no one ever teach him not to point. Mom
Told us that when we were children.
This needs to be translated i to Spanish and designated far and wide! Do you have an audience on threads, Insta? We need Spanish speakers because they r the ones being targeted the most at this time. Great article!
Trump is the useful idiot to bring along the base vote and the militias waiting in the wings if the rest of us resist our new "Christian" nation. My crazy theory is that once the useful idiot is in power, they (Heritage Foundation, etc) will find a way to get rid of him permanently with some plausible cover accident in order to put a hand picked VP in the top dog spot. The Supreme Court is ready and willing to put a theocracy in place and that theocracy will be radical Catholic in its workings. Yet, Americans go on an on about the radical fundamentalist evangelicals. The evangelicals are the useful idiots of the radical Catholics. These are all my guesses and I hope to God I am wrong on all accounts. I'm glad people are finally paying attention to religious radicals of all stripes. My fear is that we are about ten years too late to this fight.....I'm following any and all people dissecting Project 2025. Better to face reality now than get hit upside the head with it later unaware.
Thank you, Tom, for another excellent piece laying out what's at stake in the upcoming presidential election. You're a Dorothy Thompson for the new millennium!
Like you, I live in DC. As a federal employee, I fear that (much as in 2016) my otherwise very smart and socially conscious colleagues and friends have no idea of the threat that Trump poses, not only to the world, but to their own families, careers, and livelihoods. The naivete, largely instilled by privileged upbringings, scares the shit out me.
I’ve been in panic mode since first learning about Project 2025. After readings the entire published plan and many articles and Op-Ed pieces. I an getting the “we are fuc..ed nightmares.
The first thing, I noticed is that many of the components will directly and more severely impact, the poor, people of color, single parents, recent immigrants, people who live in poorer rural areas, the LGBTQ community, and people who for some reason wind up on a “hit list.”
The financial social services will be easiest to implement as local, state and federal programs will lose a significant portion of their budgets. Deny them food, rent subsidies, medical care, employment and training opportunities and you can. Bringing people to their knees pretty damn fast? And that control makes people desperate and easier to conquer. Add in eligibility restrictions related to race, marital status, and religious requirements and people will be standing in line begging.
Our country will be devastated as good people will be sharing what they have with those who have not. Conditions will feel like during the peak of the pandemic. These actions won’t need Trump’s ok, but will help him segregate our citizen and immigrant populations. Easier to ship the “undesirable” to “work camp” aka concentration camps.
Our legal system is sagging now because of the bias right judiciary. Finding relief through the courts will be a long bard, crapshoot. SCOTUS will be able to keep their bribe commitments.
I could rant for hours but my belief’s are in a nutshell.
The general population will be gobbedsmacked as they will be uninformed and deluded.
Many of the people throughout levels of government will be in agreement.
Only bits and pieces of the plan need to be working immediately to destabilize the country.
Our military and police have already been infiltrated by the various hate groups i.e. MAGA.
Once Trump’s new evil advisors will be able to point out the advantages for him personally.
Evangelical churches will continue to be weaponized.
MSM will be taken over (or surrendered?).
Resources will become government property (water, electricity, etc.) under the guise of “protecting” it.
I sure sound dark and without hope. But America is not without experience in the horrible ways Fascism and Authoritarianism works. We even imprisoned Japanese Americans by one of the best presidents ever. The racism of the south will rear its ugly head and “Northerners” be divided by it.
This could be possible and we must not let the Plan divide us any more to “normalize, evil.
Good people will stand up and there is a lot of us.
Is Donald Trump on board? Trump doesn't need to be on board with anything. He is merely a useful distraction (who came about by chance) for this plan, a plan Paul Weyrich clearly laid out back in 2001. "Project 2025" in its current iteration is not new. It is 24 years old. The problem is that people who should know more about the real game being played do not know. In attempting to maintain their Establishment credentials, they think the system is still viable. The American political system is broken, and it has been broken by design by both political parties.
What anti-Christian bias? When has a Christian ever been denied a job or housing or a loan because of their religion? When have they been illegally surveilled in their churches? When have they been barred from flights because they have a "Christian-sounding" name? When have they been targeted with harassment and violence just because they happen to "look Christian"? What laws have been passed to keep any and all aspects of "Biblical law" from becoming part of juris prudence?
What bias are they actually experiencing? How can they even make that claim, and so strongly that they engage in histrionics of this level?
I just...I just don't get it.
Thank you Professor Zimmer, absolutely the best breakdown of the 2025 Plan I’ve read yet. I’m grateful for your thoughtful insights. It’s helped me solidify my plans to get the Dem vote out in November.
Another excellent article. Thank you!
Though I read this good essay in its entirety, it is a bit long and repetitive. The word “reactionary” was used 14 times, by my rough count. What is described here is better termed “American Fascism v2.0”. It has been the fever dream going back 100 years as v1.0, back when the KKK held strong political influence in the South and even in major northern cities such as New York and even where I live, Denver.
Nowhere in this essay is the word “fascism” used, nor is “racism” charged. Nor is “bigotry” mentioned. Finally, it would be helpful as describing the Project 2025 movement as one to enhance oligarchy and wealth concentration via militant use of rightwing culture wars. The working class white conservatives are fooled into voting against their interests in this manner.
In that light, swing voters could see this essay as a clarion call and warning that America is lurching toward an autocratic fascist state, one that should make every reasonable American shudder. Trumpism turned into Fascism is what’s in store for the second half of the 2020’s and beyond, unless the swing voters in swing states prevent it.
The only hope I hold out is that republicans are incapable of agreeing on almost everything except tax cuts and abortion. After they have been completely incapable of governing.
Trump will do only what’s good for Trump, aka revenge and revenue replenishment
Whew! It's exhausting but necessary to discus this. Project 2025 is something we absolutely have to stand against as, at its core, it's anti-democratic. US democracy is not perfect, it is insufficient since it doesn't really include everyone, but we have to work to make it broader and stronger. Keep fighting the good fight with your essays.