Those "Project 2025" Training Videos

 

ProPublica has 23 of the training videos that were created to facilitate the implementation of the deeply unpopular "Project 2025" plan for the Christofascist re- making of America under a second Trump regime.  You needn't see all of them to get the flavor of the radical, un- American nature of the movement to install a permanent Christofascist regime in America;  some descriptive text should do for the moment:

Project 2025, the controversial playbook and policy agenda for a right-wing presidential administration, has lost its director and faced scathing criticism from both Democratic groups and former President Donald Trump. But Project 2025’s plan to train an army of political appointees who could battle against the so-called deep state government bureaucracy on behalf of a future Trump administration remains on track.

One centerpiece of that program is dozens of never-before-published videos created for Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy. The vast majority of these videos — 23 in all, totaling more than 14 hours of content — were provided to ProPublica and Documented by a person who had access to them.

The Project 2025 videos coach future appointees on everything from the nuts and bolts of governing to how to outwit bureaucrats. There are strategies for avoiding embarrassing Freedom of Information Act disclosures and ensuring that conservative policies aren’t struck down by “left-wing judges.” Some of the content is routine advice that any incoming political appointee might be told. Other segments of the training offer guidance on radically changing how the federal government works and what it does.

In one video, Bethany Kozma, a conservative activist and former deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development in the Trump administration, downplays the seriousness of climate change and says the movement to combat it is really part of a ploy to “control people.”

“If the American people elect a conservative president, his administration will have to eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere,” Kozma says...

Here's a clip from that Kozma vid:

Lest there be any doubt these are MAGAt Trumpers:

A review of the training videos shows that 29 of the 36 speakers have worked for Trump in some capacity — on his 2016-17 transition team, in the administration or on his 2024 reelection campaign. The videos appear to have been recorded before the resignation two weeks ago of Paul Dans, the leader of the 2025 project, and they are referenced on the project’s website. The Heritage Foundation said in a statement at the time of Dans’ resignation that it would end Project 2025’s policy-related work, but that its “collective efforts to build a personnel apparatus for policymakers of all levels — federal, state, and local — will continue.”...

All of the vids can be seen here, interspersed with commentary.

We have to end with this screenshot of Trump Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security Alexei Woltornist, no doubt fresh from his morning flagellation, in one of the videos telling us how they plan to only focus on feeding propaganda to right- wing media to facilitate their Christofascist agenda:

"Rasputin called.  He wants his cassock and cross back."

These are some of the bizarre, key people who plan to impose their dystopian vision of culture, religion, and politics on our country should their Golden Calf Trump be returned to office.  Believe them when they tell you who they are, and vote accordingly.