The HORSE RACE is horses**t. The STAKES are increasingly stark, important and urgent. The three paragraphs below are from an AP news story dateline in August 2023.
WASHINGTON (AP) — With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump, recruiting thousands of Americans to come to Washington on a mission to dismantle the federal government and replace it with a vision closer to his own.
Led by the long-established Heritage Foundation think tank and fueled by former Trump administration officials, the far-reaching effort is essentially a government-in-waiting for the former president’s return — or any candidate who aligns with their ideals and can defeat President Joe Biden in 2024.
With a nearly 1,000-page “Project 2025” handbook and an “army” of Americans, the idea is to have the civic infrastructure in place on Day One to commandeer, reshape and do away with what Republicans deride as the “deep state” bureaucracy, in part by firing as many as 50,000 federal workers.
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Demand your local news enterprises cover the STAKES and either not cover or at least deemphasize the horse race.
And LIVE from New York... oh, wait, that's not where I am. Anyway, HAPPY THANKSGIVING. And wishing all of you who will be with your larger families, fruitful, productive and kind dialogue.
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