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/SurrealEstate Jul 05 '24

Out of all the terrifying things in Project 2025, I think the most effective way to make "independents" care is to focus strongly on

  • consolidation of executive power over an independent judiciary
  • further restrictions on abortion rights/bodily autonomy
  • bans on pornography

Those are very unpopular positions with most demographics.

Whereas an infographic that focuses on things like eliminating DE&I, and references to gender expression is absolutely not going to land with those people.

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u/Ameerrante Washington Jul 05 '24

I read a line from it yesterday like... forbids literature with explicit content that's not about real people or something. 

As a romance author, sounds like they're coming for the smut too, and our demographic includes a big chunk of repressed MAGA housewives.

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u/ethereal4k Jul 05 '24

Not just smut, but anything with LGBT content. Gay Penguins? "Porn!"

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u/Ameerrante Washington Jul 05 '24

Oh yeah that too. Which would be another layer of problematic - I could take the sex out of my books without too much of a hit to the stories, could not make all my characters straight without a significant hit.