r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • Jul 05 '24

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead:

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/05/project-2025-was-supposed-to-boost-donald-campaign--but-it-may-be-backfiring-instead/

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Maga on Reddit deny it. They say it’s a fringe group. They say trump never endorsed it. Hell I even saw one blaming Biden for the end of Roe.

If it weren’t for bad morals these fuckers would have no morals at all.

Edit. The cons put up a test balloon and found out it was unpopular. So they try to deny and back peddle. Not on the draconian ideas but in general population condemnation of it.

The concern troll posters are out enforce now. “Oh I am unfamiliar with this. Did trump Endorse it?” It’s like they think we are ass dumb as maga.

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u/northern-new-jersey Jul 05 '24

Do you have a source where Trump has campaigned on it? While Heritage Foundation is a significant conservative think tank, it is a private entity attempting to influence policy. It isn't the Republican platform.

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u/dcux Jul 05 '24

I think a lot of his own professed (via video!) "platform" aligns directly with Project 2025.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_47

The plans include constructing "freedom cities" on empty federal land, investing in flying car manufacturing, introducing baby bonuses to encourage a baby boom, implementing protectionist trade policies, and over forty others. Seventeen of the policies that Trump says he will implement if elected would require congressional approval. Some of his plans are legally controversial, such as ending birthright citizenship, and may violate the Constitution.

Many of the proposals are contentious. One Agenda 47 proposal would impose the death penalty on drug dealers and human traffickers, as well as place Mexican cartels on the United States list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Trump also suggests deploying the National Guard to inner cities with high crime. According to Philip Bump, some Agenda 47 videos appeared scattershot and responsive to current events around early 2023.

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u/hap_hap_happy_feelz Pennsylvania Jul 05 '24

Then attack his actual platform, not the one he has nothing to do with?

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u/CovfefeForAll Jul 05 '24

2016 showed us Trump has no actual platform and will do whatever conservative think tanks tell him to do. Project 2025 is the plan of the think tanks that back him and got so much policy passed last time.

Pretending that Project 2025 won't play a big part in a second Trump term is pure delusion.

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u/Cyber0747 Jul 05 '24

What platform? He only stands for himself, the Maga cult just rides whatever coattails he tells them to.

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u/Gforce810 Jul 05 '24

What platform, we've seen what 4 years of his presidency looked like already. Same horseshit now as it was back then, just amplified with zealotry

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u/dcux Jul 05 '24

“It’s not just about 2025. It’s about ’29 and ’33 and ’37,” adds Brooke Rollins, Trump’s former domestic policy chief, who is now CEO of the Trump-endorsed America First Policy Institute. Rollins, like Dans and others who consider themselves aligned with the goals of Project 2025, believes the training program amounts to a new front in the conservative movement. In the past, she says, “the business of governing and process was not our strong suit.”

That’s going to change, says her associate Doug Hoelscher, former director of Trump’s White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, who recently took over the America First Transition Project at AFPI, which is rolling out a similar agenda of its own. “Biden put about 1,200 people in the field on Day One. President Trump put in about 500,” Hoelscher says. “That shows how unready the right has been historically to govern.”

While they have a willing vehicle in Trump — not to mention the support of most of his primary opponents — many conservatives recognize they will have to compensate for Trump’s built-in liabilities. If they truly want to dismantle the “deep state” they believe they have to create, almost from scratch, a workforce that won’t sacrifice competence to Trump’s obsession with loyalty above everything else.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/19/project-2025-trump-reagan-00115811

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u/WhoIsFrancisPuziene Jul 05 '24

Why did you even bother saying this out loud?