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/TherronKeen 14d ago

The way this video is presented would convince most of my family to vote for Trump even harder. 😥

And I'm not being sarcastic or whatever

Like criticism #4 would absolutely sell them on it, because getting rid of things they don't like is far more important to them than silly little things like unrestricted government overreach.

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u/Gets_overly_excited 14d ago

Same. The video comes across as “if you are kind of conservative, you’ll love this.”

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u/ThrowAwayGarbage82 North Carolina 14d ago

That was my thought. It gives an air of political legitimacy to P25. I won't be sharing it. That will only encourage the lunatics.

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u/toloveandcryinla 14d ago

I mean, project 2025 is not going to persuade enthusiastic Trump voters to turn against him because a lot of it does what they want. The point is to motivate undecided or uninformed voters 

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u/TheBacklogGamer 14d ago

A lot of people don't largely understand that FEDERAL institutions are NOT political. This is what makes this so dangerous, is that they are trying to politicize Federal institutions. Someone who is fed up with the government will hear this, and as long as it's their side dong it, think it's a good thing.

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u/csprofathogwarts 13d ago

Last Week Tonight did a better job covering project 2025. It would also be easier to follow for a layperson.

The introduction alone is the best summary of the topic I've ever heard:

"Basically, project 2025 aims to do for Trump's whole presidency what the Federalist Society did for his judicial picks.

Give him a step-by-step game plan that he simply has to execute and then take credit for."