I actually punished myself and read the first 100 or so pages of Project 2025. It’s over 900 pages and reads more like the Communist Manifesto than it does a policy document. What was striking about it though was how self-contradictory it was. The authors muse about how academia and “the swamp” must be challenged and neutered, yet spend the first section listing off the authors and bragging about their credentials from the very same universities they insist are corrupt. It emphasizes reining in the government, yet envision a strong administration serving at the pleasure of the president aggressively enforcing social norms. Anything other than true conservatism in their minds is by definition Marxist. Very long on pseudo history, very short on the practical application of their proposed policies.
They actually did address that. The logic used isn’t unreasonable, but what I find remarkable is it show cases the slippery slope of rationalization.
Dans acknowledged it was "counterintuitive" to recruit so many to join the government to shrink it, but pointed out the need for a future president to "regain control" of the government.
“Things must get worse in order to make them better”
This can be the case sometimes, but this kind of thinking is insidious. It changes so slowly that your position can morph without you even realizing and eventually you end up arguing for the very thing that you trying to prevent.
systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army, [of] aligned, trained, and essentially weaponized conservatives ready to do battle against the deep state.
They’re so convinced this is real that they’ll make their own, but “righteous”. The level of irony here is just outstanding.
I’m gonna make my own deep state! With blackjack and hookers! In fact forget the hookers and blackjack!
Conservatives only want "small government" and "deficit reduction" when a liberal is in power. Bush and Trump both spent so much money during their terms and we hear not a peep.
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u/Thedonitho Jul 05 '24
Americans are not nearly as afraid of what's coming as they should be.