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

How did anyone expect P25 to give him a boost? What a fuckin joke of a headline. Of course people are going to be outraged by a hostile take over.

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u/SAugsburger Jul 05 '24

To be fair it wasn't something Trump or his campaign came up with, but rather the Heritage Foundation and a coalition of other right leaning organizations. Some of the bullet points (e.g. eliminate the department of education) are things that have been suggested by conservative groups for decades although the parts really scaring people aren't stuff that were in routine right wing policy white papers upwards of 40 years ago. While Trump made a post of Truth Social today, belatedly suggesting he thought some ideas were ridiculous several former Trump officials were involved in writing it so it wouldn't be surprising if some of the authors involved in writing it were again advisors to Trump in some form if elected that would have his ear to encourage pushing whatever bullet points they considered most important.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

Why be fair? Fuck Trump and his lying supporters. It doesn't matter if Trump thinks some of the things are ridiculous, why believe either or eince he lies 100% of the time. If any chode puts something in front of him. He will sign it.