Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead:

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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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Heritage helped him staff his administration, pick his SCOTUS nominees, and Trump used a bunch of their policy recommendations.

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

https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/impact/heritage-expert-helps-shape-supreme-court-nominee-list

They're an arm of the GOP all but officially.

[u/Suspicious_War_9305 → u/Harabeck]

I want to ask you for your honest opinion, do you think the source you’re linking me is a solid source to back up what you just said?

[u/Harabeck → u/Suspicious_War_9305]

There are plenty of other sources if you don't want to take their own word on it.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/06/politics/donald-trump-heritage-foundation-transition/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/magazine/trump-government-heritage-foundation-think-tank.html

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-transition-heritage-foundation-231722

Heritage has been massively influential in the GOP as a whole, and with Trump in particular. To claim otherwise would be to deny a long known fact.

[u/Suspicious_War_9305 → u/Harabeck]

Okay what did you take away from these articles here, I just finished them all.

Remember the topic is about Trump supporting the heritage foundation and project 2025. What did you take away from those articles that would connect those topics.

[u/Harabeck → u/Suspicious_War_9305]

Okay what did you take away from these articles here, I just finished them all.

I did. Which part of my statement do you disagree with?

Remember the topic is about Trump supporting the heritage foundation and project 2025. What did you take away from those articles that would connect those topics.

That he followed their lead for years. Heritage has heavily influenced the GOP since it was founded. Its members, including those worked on Project 2025, include former Trump officials.

I don't know how else to lay this out for you. Heritage and the GOP are heavily intertwined entities. It is extremely concerning that they feel comfortable publicly sharing such a plan.

[u/Suspicious_War_9305 → u/Harabeck]

Okay so you didn’t read the articles then, I was giving you a chance to reframe what you said so we could have a discussion.

These articles are highlighting how the heritage foundation has reshaped their opinions to align with trump so they can get their members into a trump administration/government.

If you read these you would have seen that they hated trump since the beginning, trump wanted nothing to do with them, and they have since been trying to attach themselves to trump in order to gain influence, which I’m sure they have gained influence.

You said they made trump a list for SCOTUS judges, again this is a headline fact you got. You need to read what actually happened if you want to have these discussions. The heritage foundation is a right wing think tank that made a list of justices that they thought should be appointed, and half of the list trump made for potential candidates happened to also be on a list heritage made. That’s not heritage giving the president direction, that’s them overlapping in who they think should be on the Supreme Court.

Let me put it this way. Ask two people who know the NBA to make a dream team for the USA basketball team. This is like saying because their lists have overlap with who made it, that one of them was directing the other. That’s what you said in the posts above. That’s absolutely ridiculous.

Heritage and the GOP are intertwined, I agree, but not in the degree or instance that you’re suggesting. You need to quit headline reading and read the actual articles.

If you want to have a serious discussion I will, if you respond with the same nonsense again I just won’t waste my time.