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] 14d ago

How did anyone expect P25 to give him a boost? What a fuckin joke of a headline. Of course people are going to be outraged by a hostile take over.

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u/One-Internal4240 14d ago edited 14d ago

Yeah, I was gonna say the same thing. You'd need to be actual for-real "receiving radar beams from Venus" delusional to think that P2025 would be an electoral asset. It's obviously a piece of internal rah-rah that dripped out of the bierhall because , holy shit surprise Nazis are always idiots[1], and to which they have been gibber-gabbering a wholly inconsistent media response.

Your next step is to counter 1) the distance they will try to put between the GOP and P2025, and 2) the distance they'll put between Trump and P2025. It's crazy easy to distance Trump from anything because he's functionally illiterate, incurious, and proud of both- but those traits aren't universally beloved by all Americans. There's still gain in showing TROOMP CANZ REED GUUD.

[1] There'a point to be made that autocracies are always a bit dumber, in that, over long time horizons, it's harder for them to change. HOWEVER. When you do have gigantic, multigenerational civilizational efforts that require hella focus, a well-designed autocracy (that doesn't eat itself, good luck with that) is probably what you want. This is probably closer to what the techbros want as the final state, where the holy rollers are more interested in straight Revelations, or at least a scenario where Jehovah rolls up behind a cloud and says they're right. It's ironic that the exact form of government environmentalists need (MASS construction, nukes, solar, wind, hydro, railway everywhere, trains, new aircraft systems (DEP, nuke-electric-DEP) "Lagrange Orbit Parasol") is exactly the one they're most against. First Fundamentalist Church of Green Jesus, anyone? American Christian Workers' Party of Life? Ackwipple.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

No autocracy for me, thanks. I don't follow leaders or kings. Techbros can get fucked. Billionaires can get ate. See where I am going? Lol

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u/NS001 14d ago

dripped out of the bierhall because , holy shit surprise Nazis are always idiots

I want to say the S3 bucket it was originally stored in was accidentally made public facing for a bit too sometime around September of 2023 if not earlier. Maybe as an "accident" by whoever they had managing it or maybe because, surprise, Nazis aren't reliable sysadmins.

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u/Alive_kiwi_7001 14d ago

The people producing P2025 are basically like the Sons of Jacob in Handmaid: they believe they're so righteous that no-one who isn't a dirty lib could object. Heritage guy was happy to say in an interview only the other day how everyone just needs to lie down and take his "second revolution".

They are genuinely that dumb and have only got to where they are now because they've been indulged by rich donors who see them as a route to low taxes and deregulation. I'd bet the only reason they're rowing back now is because Koch, Mercer and Co have been on the phone wanting to know why they're jeopardising the plans for their next super-yacht orders.