If elected, former president Donald Trump has promised to implement mass deportations, target journalists, and carry out other unprecedented actions. How could he pull it off? Project 2025, a radical plan to reshape the government under Trump, highlights the key to his sweeping agenda: Schedule F, a policy that would expose federal workers to political interference and give the president broad leeway to govern through fear.
Today on Lever Time, senior podcast producer Arjun Singh unpacks this radical strategy for Trump’s second term — and explores the religious fundamentalism and free-market ideology driving the creators of Project 2025, the right-wing think tank called The Heritage Foundation.
In the early 1980s, the Heritage Foundation became the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement and today wields huge influence over the Republican party. Unlike other conservative think tanks, the Heritage Foundation was unique in blending the principles of free market capitalism with Christian nationalism, creating a blueprint for conservative politics that has now become the status quo. Over the past four years, a brain trust within the foundation has been drawing up Project 2025, laying the groundwork for how Trump could warp the tools of government and deliver ineradicable changes.
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How would you know what I think? Stop this fear-mongering BS about P2025. It's the basically the same crap Heritage has been pushing since Ronald Reagan and very little of it has been implemented except for the parts the Democrats helped implement like the ACA. This happens every 4 years - some supposedly scary think to terrify the base. Nor should Trump's campaign rhetoric be taken seriously at face value. Did he build the wall and get Mexico to pay for it? And he's not even full in on P2025.
Ridiculous Blindness to the Facts. I can see what you're "thinking" from your comment and I actually don't think you're thinking. Get the blinders off please. Neither party has anything to offer relating to democracy and aren't listening or caring about the people of the country whom they serve or give lip service to. Our own governing bodies are selling off our assets at an accelerating rate to the biggest profit makers (the largest investment companies and pocketing most of the money! Democrats and Republicans are deeply implicated. Pay serious attention unless you don't know how!
LOL! What blinders? Maybe YOU should start paying attention to what I actually said and attempt some "thinking". I was commenting on the hyperpartisanship and inflated fear-mongering of this article. Nothing I said in any way suggests the two parties aren't BOTH corrupt and owned by Wall Street, They are also both filled with neocons and huge war-mongers. Pay better attention unless you don't know how!