Donald Trump's supporters celebrated their plans to implement Project 2025 after months claiming they had nothing to do with the former president.
Summary
Following Donald Trump’s election victory, Republicans are now openly embracing Project 2025, a policy agenda from The Heritage Foundation that outlines sweeping conservative reforms.
Despite Trump’s attempts to distance himself from the project during his campaign due to its extreme proposals—including expanded executive powers, a national abortion ban, stricter contraception limits, harsh immigration policies, and the elimination of agencies like the Department of Education—his allies quickly began celebrating its implementation.
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and commentator Matt Walsh publicly affirmed the agenda, signaling the GOP's commitment to enacting these controversial policies in Trump’s second term.
I've been listening to interviews and most people think Trump won't do what he says he will, much less something that he says he won't. It's unbelievable.
Either they run into the filibuster in the senate and it stops most of this, or we finally do away with the filibuster and when the democrats come in to clean up after 2/4 years of disaster, we don't have the filibuster stopping all the good ideas the democrats are suppose to support.
They’ll blame Barack Harris for the crumbling of the US while the republicans dismantle it actively in front of them, while they point at the democrats for letting it happen.
Once she gets her benefits slashed be sure to talk about how great the Republicans are and isn't she glad she got what she wanted with her vote? Thank goodness trump got rid of that pesky public assistance, that was costing the rich real money.
I plan on reminding every family member, at every opportunity, when they complain about some benefit they've lost, "tough shit, you specifically voted for this"
They know they can't win if people know who they are and what they want. Maybe this will teach a small fraction of their supporters who they really are.
Have you seen none of the flyers/banners that popped up this election? The fact that he's a felon is celebrated. The fact that he's a rapist is celebrated. The fact that he openly speaks against overtime pay is celebrated. Fuck, even his divorces are celebrated. He could literally shoot someone in the face at a rally, and it would just boost his support.
They don't care to understand the details or the nuance. They don't need to. The team they are cheering on has told them what to do and they enjoy obeying their masters.
Honestly, I think they should do it and Democrats need to get on board or step aside. This is what the people, including the 15 million Democrats, independents, and progressives that didn't vote this election, wanted this election.
Let's say you're right and they get 50 percent of it done...I can't even imagine what the world will look like in 4 years...it'll be whatever fox tells me to believe I guess.
To be fair, I have heard a lot of vague fear mongering around the project with very little clear statements of exactly what it's proposing, until this thread. None of this is to suggest it's not as bad as people were making it out to be - it seems fucking horrific and regressive - but I won't attack someone for wanting to know the specifics.
Mind you, I'm Canadian. If I were American, I suspect I'd have read at least parts of the primary text, because that's what I tend to do.
EDIT: Okay, I decided to start reading about it right after making this post. It's fucked. You all are fucked. Welcome to a White Christian Nationalist Ethnostate.
"Yes, because the reduced happiness of others elevates mine in comparison. This is because I believe in a rigid social hierarchy where happiness is zero-sum, and it's the only way I'm able to climb the ladder. Once the short-lived boost in happiness inevitably wears off due to the world not actually working in that way, I will further look to enable suffering to forever chase the high in the only way I know. I will never truly feel deep satisfaction and inner peace, and I will slowly decline into old age feeling ever more isolated and bitter.