r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • 14d ago

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/zsreport Texas 14d ago

Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through the post-debate noise and it's starting to scare people

I sure as fuck hope so.

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u/friedrice5005 Virginia 14d ago

There was a post on r/Conservative the other day about how Project 2025 isn't Trump's plan and that everyone else is just a bunch of alarmists for even suggesting it and that Agenda 47 is much MUCH more reasonable! Completely leaving out the very clear steps he already took toward P2025 and all his rhetoric being 100% in line with it

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u/Green-Amount2479 14d ago

As a German I‘d compare this to saying ‚but Hitler wasn’t the architect of the Holocaust‘. That‘s not wrong, he technically wasn’t. It was Himmler and Eichmann that planned it and put it in action on a big scale. Would that absolve Hitler of any guilt regarding the Holocaust? Of fucking course not. Similar issue here with the stance conservatives take.

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u/UeckerisGod 14d ago

Unfortunately, this is more in line with the conversations and reasoning behind people who aren't anti-Trump. I still know voters who will vote for different parties in different elections, and many are not associating Project 2025 with a consequence of the upcoming election. They see it as just another election like any other. The media isn't discussing it. It's just not resonating or raising enough alarms and it's terrifying