There are people MUCH smarter than I am (political scientists, historians, and attorneys) who have MUCH more to say about what's in the 900+ page document, and how it would change our country than I can. Therefore, I'm not the one who will expound the detail therein.
The Arizona Eagletarian will, however, point to some of those who can clarify the issues for you and me.
As of today, here's some of them.
Snopes has a run down on quite a bit of Project 2025, with plenty of links to verify.
Here's the bottom line for me.
This moment in the context of American History boils down to the 2024 presidential election campaign is fundamentally a choice between the best US president in my (our) lifetime and the end of the American democratic republic as we have known it.
You may or may not agree with me. I'm not interested in bickering with you about this point.
I am completely and emphatically "Ridin' with Biden."
Worst case scenario, in my opinion, is that IF President Biden cannot, for any reason, finish a second term, we already KNOW who will succeed him. That's not the case with the presumptive Republican nominee.
Two salient substack essays posted in the last day or so were written by former US attorney for Northern Alabama, Joyce Vance, and Yale political scientist/historian Timothy Snyder.
I recommend Arizona Eagletarian readers read both essays (by Vance and Snyder).
Here are pertinent excerpts:
Trump claims he’s not connected to Project 2025. That seems like a convenient fiction that the Heritage Foundation, which is behind Project 2025, maintains as well. According to the website, they’re just working on an agenda for whichever Republican president—nudge, nudge, wink, wink—comes along next. Axios reports that, “Trump himself spends little time plotting governing plans. But he is well aware of a [the] highly coordinated campaign to be ready to jam government offices with loyalists willing to stretch traditional boundaries.” And then, there are the personal connections.
I have questions based on Trump’s post itself. How do you “know nothing” about the Project and have no idea who is behind it, but also know that you disagree with some of the things they’re saying?From Snyder:
Those who wish to preserve the American constitutional republic should also recall the past. A good start would be just to recall the five basic political lessons of 1933. [...]
5. Citizens should not obey in advance. Much of fascism is a bluff — look at our loyal cult, listen to our outrageous language, heed our threats of violence, we are inevitable! Hitler was good at that sort of propaganda. [btw, so is Trump] Yet to gain power he needed luck and the errors of others. American fascism, likewise, is far from inevitable. It too is largely bluff, most of it digital. The internet is much more fascist than real life, which is discouraging. But we vote in the real world. The crucial thing is the individual decision to act, along with others, for four months, a little something each day, regardless of the atmospherics and the polls and the media and the moods.
It’s simple: recalling history, we act in the present, for a future that can and will be much better.
Be prepared. Think things through well ahead of time. We are four months away from the general election.
Don't be distracted by the political polling industry. It hasn't been correct since before 2016.
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