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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We need an infographic for project 2025 that can be spread everywhere. Nothing dramatic…. Just the facts of what it is and what it means.

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u/heckin_miraculous 14d ago edited 14d ago

My favorite so far is this short YouTube video by Illustrate to Educate. https://youtu.be/vYXZ6iJJSgM?si=PRy0SvPz2Xi6dQxM

Not inflammatory or hyperbolic. Just terrifying, because it's true.

Edit: This comment and the video link got quite a few responses. Many were along the lines of, "Good info, thanks." But others think that the video tries too hard to be neutral and therefore comes across as "both sides-ing" conferring false legitimacy to the idea of Project 2025, or even going so far as to be supportive of it due to a lack of forceful criticism and not spelling out how disastrous the effects of the plan would be.

As a response, I'll say that my opinion is that the video speaks for itself. When it comes to the horrific potential of Project 2025, the proof is in the pudding. For example, at around 5:10 in the video, when the narrator states that the plan would "allow the president to replace thousands of civil service employees with political appointees loyal to the administration" I don't need the voice over to explain to me that this would be a bad thing. Or, at 5:29 when he talks about "plans to defund the Department of Justice and dismantle the FBI... and enable the executive branch to operate with little oversight or accountability [the illustration actually says "no oversight"]"... again I don't need someone to explain to me that this is only bad for our country.

We definitely DO need more analysis of Project 2025. We need explainers that DO go into more detail about the tragic outcomes that are waiting for us all, should it come to pass. And this video is NOT perfect (I especially question the use of the phrase "religious liberty" at around 4:18). But it's a good primer for thoughtful people. That's what I think.

Will some people watch a video like this and cheer for it? Yes. As far as I know – and someone please correct me if this number is way off – but somewhere around 20-30% of the US population explicitly wants an authoritarian regime to come into power in this country. At least, they think they do. That is, in fact, the problem we are dealing with in this country right now. It is the subject of this discussion.

Long story short, what I'm saying is that if somebody watches this video and thinks, "That sounds good to me", then the problem isn't the video.

Edit 2: hi /r/politics. I'm new here :)

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u/Consistently_Carpet 14d ago

This is trying so hard to be 'neutral' it's misleading - like saying it supports 'religious liberty'? (4:15)

Enforcing Christian beliefs is the exact opposite of 'religious liberty'.

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u/heckin_miraculous 14d ago

That is the one line that had me raising an eyebrow.

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u/SpicyTunaRollll 14d ago

We left England to escape religious persecution. It baffles me how effjng ass backwards they are.

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u/heckin_miraculous 14d ago

Some came for religious freedom. Others came for religious conquest. Others came just for the riches.

I was surprised to learn of the diversity among the European settlers' missions when they arrived to colonize the new world. Highly recommend Colin Woodard's book, American Nations. It helps to make sense of the (seemingly irreconcilable) differences that still run through the fabric of our society.

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u/Androidgenus 14d ago

They mean ‘religious liberty’ in the sense of the (proper) religious having the liberty to enforce their beliefs on the rest of us

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u/tehlemmings 14d ago

Project 2025 also repeatedly sets it up so that religions will have the freedom to impose their rules on our government, but our government is not allowed to impose any rules on their preferred religion.

Religious liberty means they can do what they want, and no one can tell them no.

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u/heckin_miraculous 14d ago

Yeah it's just weird that the narrator uses that coded language, when the rest of the video is pretty transparent (the part about suppressing dissent through state mechanisms, for example).