Via David Sea: Regarding Project 2025, “a group called Stop the Coup 2025 has analyzed the nearly 900 page Project 2025, and in a scathing 15 page report, shows how the Project uses rhetoric as a "hidden in plain sight" propaganda tool to serve the next Conservative President. The over-arching principle the authors forewarn is an "Us vs. Them" mindset. A must-read.” #Project2025#Politics https://www.stopthecoup2025.org/unpacking-the-propaganda
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨We’re in a war, we’re the enemy, & unless we’re white & not woke, our lives are being threatened by “true patriots”. Only Americans who support #TFG will survive the civil war that his loyalists have declared, acc to one of TFG’s billionaire backers. We should fear TFG’s financiers & enablers because they’re on the warpath.
Watch this disturbing video & amplify the danger these Rs pose. TFG posted the “Trump Virtues” video on Truth Social Saturday.
Rich Republicans back #TFG despite his deadly coup attempt, #Project2025, retribution promises...
"I don’t put the sophisticated, ultra-wealthy people who attended this campaign fundraiser in the same category as average Americans who've been conned by TFG -I suspect this elite group of backers knows exactly what's going on with him. A few wks ago -Paulson: “Pleased to support TFG *policies on the economy, energy, immigration & foreign policy will be very beneficial-". https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/07/opinions/trump-2024-palm-beach-fundraiser-rich-donors-obeidallah
Jason Sattler says that if you don't want to read the 920-page prescription of policies Project 2025 informs us Republicans will enact if given control of the federal government again, then read just one sentence, which sums up the whole project:
"'But the Dobbs decision is just the beginning.'
That would be the governing philosophy of a second Trump regime."
Thomas Zimmer on what's at stake in the 2024 election"
"This isn't actually about Biden versus Trump. It's basically a referendum on whether or not an effort at achieving a democratic pluralistic multiracial society should be continued or abolished altogether. It's basically thumbs up or down on, on democratic self government and the civil rights order."
How do we know that this is what the 2024 election is about? Because the Republican party has put its agenda right out there on the internet in Project 2025 for all of us to see it:
"The overriding concern is to impose this sort of reactionary white Christian patriarchal order on society. And again, they do that by dismantling some parts of government, but also mobilizing and weaponizing others."
And this is not a MAGA agenda: it's an establishment Republican agenda:
"Project 2025 is not coming from Trump. It's not coming from the Trump campaign. This is as conservative establishment as it's as it gets, right? So this is not the MAGA fringe. This is not the Trump weirdos. And so we're looking as a kind of a fusion between those forces in a very dangerous, very threatening way."
If Dems improve their messaging & targeted ads, they should win more Congressional seats, & others down ballot. The Republicans' agenda, esp. cutting the social safety net, including beloved programs, & enforcing even part of #Project2025, would likely ensure Dems the US House. Senate: more difficult. New Survey:
#TFG succeeds with racism & xenophobia. Most LE support him, as was the case in MI when some endorsed him.
"Why LE provides TFG cover... #Project2025 agenda to enlist the local police & to employ red state NG troops to blue cities to round up migrants & send them to deportation camps🚨is undoubtedly a huge hit with the faithful. He made the promise in MI, declaring that "we have to get the law & order back" as soon as he stood in front of the LE officers who applauded-." https://www.salon.com/2024/04/03/why-the-police-are-providing-cover-for-jan-6/
Lisa Needham notes that Republicans pushing Project 2025 are now out and proud about their plan to make Trump president for life:
"Republicans want to permanently enshrine their minority policies into law despite the fact that what they want is broadly unpopular. … Project 25 is all about enacting minority rule in America immediately upon Trump’s election."
The 2nd to last bullet point on page 214 of the PDF that basically is the project 2025 playbook would have made George H.W. Bush’s terms as VP and President impossible.
That’s 16 years of gop in powerful positions they want to never have happen (because they haven’t thought things through).
Not only is #project2025 undemocratic, destructive and without merit or saving grace, it is also deeply shortsighted, thoughtless and foolish.
If Donald Trump returns to the White House, close allies want to dramatically change the government's interpretation of #Civil#Rights-era laws to💥 focus on "anti-white racism" 💥rather than discrimination against people of color.
Trump's Justice Department would push to #eliminate or #upend programs in government and corporate America that are designed to counter racism that has favored whites.
Targets would range from decades-old policies aimed at giving minorities economic opportunities, to more recent programs that began in response to the pandemic and the killing of George Floyd.
Trump campaign spokesperson #Steven#Cheung told Axios: "As President Trump has said, all staff, offices, and initiatives connected to Biden's un-American policy will be immediately #terminated."
Longtime aides and allies preparing for a potential second Trump administration have been laying legal groundwork with a flurry of lawsuits and legal complaints — some of which have been successful.
A central vehicle for the effort has been #America#First#Legal, founded by former Trump aide #Stephen#Miller, who has called the group conservatives' "long-awaited answer to the ACLU."
America First cited the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in February in a lawsuit against CBS and Paramount Global for what the group argued was discrimination against a white, straight man who was a writer for the show "Seal Team" in 2017.
In February, the group filed a civil rights complaint against the NFL over its "Rooney Rule."
The rule — named for Dan #Rooney, late owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers — was instituted in 2003 and expanded in 2022.
It requires NFL teams to interview at least two minority candidates for vacant general manager, head coach and coordinator positions.
American First argued that "given the limited time frame to hire executives and coaches after the season, this results in fewer opportunities for similarly situated, well-qualified candidates who are not minorities."
In 2021, Miller's group successfully sued to block the implementation of a $29 billion pandemic-era program for women- and minority-owned restaurants, saying it discriminated against white-owned businesses.
"This ruling is the first, but crucial, step towards ending government-sponsored racial discrimination," Miller said then.
Other Trump-aligned groups are preparing for a future Trump Justice Department to implement — or challenge — policies on a broader scale.
The #Heritage#Foundation's well-funded "#Project2025" envisions a second Trump administration ending what it calls "affirmative discrimination."
Part of the plan, written by former Trump Justice Department official #Gene#Hamilton, argues that "advancing the interests of certain segments of American society ... comes at the expense of other Americans — and in nearly all cases violates longstanding federal law."
Hamilton is America First Legal's general counsel.
Such groups have gained momentum with the #Supreme#Court's turn to the right
— most notably its recent rejection of affirmative action in college admissions.
The court ruled that programs designed to benefit people of color and address past injustices discriminate against white and Asian Americans.
In 2021, a federal judge blocked a $4 billion program to help Black farmers
#TFG is "impune". He/ #Project2025 promise Christian Nationalists (& others) power.
"Trump’s announcement: now peddling something called the “God Bless the USA Bible” drew outrage from some religious figures, but one group that’s been conspicuously quiet about it lately is evangelical leaders. He's begun making subtle promises to them that we absolutely must not ignore. There're unsettling new ways he's signaling a 2nd term shaped around ideals of #ChristianNationalism. https://newrepublic.com/article/180287/trumps-weird-usa-bible-scam-takes-dark-unsettling-turn
Via Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast
3:50 PM · Mar 30, 2024
"I spent a lot of time reading about project 2025 and now honestly I’m kind of completely freaked out."
Via @rilkeanhearts (?)
7:43 PM · Mar 30, 2024
"I recommend at least reading the Wikipedia page. Share it with friends and family. There was a poll which found 80% of Americans were ignorant of Trumps authoritarian plans and intentions."
I wanted to find some discussion from #RuthBenGhiat regarding #Project2025. Here she does lay out the (violent authoritarian) plans but not using that specific term.