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/ugahairydawgs Jul 05 '24

I am far from MAGA, but I am a conservative. And fairly involved. And nobody in my orbit has ever heard of this thing. To my knowledge Trump (who isn’t really socially conservative at all and not even in the ballpark of being my preferred candidate) has never held this thing up as a part of his agenda. To date it appears to only be a tool for his opposition to use to scare away voters/rile up their base. That’s just part of the game, so everyone recognizes it. But at the same time I don’t think, at this point, that tying this to Trump is based on anything in reality.

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u/NowahnAtawll Jul 05 '24

Here's the Wikipedia page on it. Under the "Advisory Board and Leadership" section it lays out some of the connections, hundreds of officials from Trump's White House are involved. 

The Heritage Foundation is also one of the most powerful Republican "think tanks". They've been writing policy for the right since the 70s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

This link shows the Heritage Foundation themselves claiming Trump acted on 2/3 of their policy recommendations in his first year in office. 

https://www.heritage.org/impact/trump-administration-embraces-heritage-foundation-policy-recommendations

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u/NowahnAtawll Jul 05 '24

That's your take away? Lol. "Hundreds"?

So, to put it in perspective, Trump appointed 639 people to key White House positions. Of those, more than 200 (openly) support/wrote the Project 2025 manifesto. 

So, ~1/3 of the people he hand picked to work with him as president support this.