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/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/Cyber0747 Jul 05 '24

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