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.

Book By "Project 2025" Architect Delayed Until After Election

 

Having seen what an unmitigated disaster their Christofascist blueprint for taking over America -- "Project 2025"-- was, the Heritage Foundation is opting to delay publication of another frothing fascist tome by the Obergruppenführer  overseer of "Project 2025," Kevin Roberts.  We believe this is called "trying to hide the ball":

The publication date for a book by the president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, which oversees the controversial Project 2025, has been delayed until after the November election.

"Dawn’s Early Light," written by Kevin D. Roberts, had been scheduled to be published Sept. 24. But following a public uproar over Project 2025’s policy proposals for a future Republican administration, Roberts said in a statement that he will postpone the book until after Election Day. 

“There’s a time for writing, reading, and book tours — and a time to put down the books and go fight like hell to take back our country,” he said. RealClearPolitics was first to report the news. 

The announcement follows a challenging two-week stretch for Donald Trump, which, as the former president sought to distance himself from Project 2025, included increased scrutiny of a foreword of Roberts’ book, written by Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio. 

Project 2025 has provided ample fodder for Democratic attacks on Trump, linking him to its most incendiary policy proposals and ideas to remake the federal government. The group, which is led by former Trump administration personnel and policy aides, collaborated with more than 100 conservative groups, some with ties to Trump, to put forth its governing agenda... (our emphasis)

There's no doubt more of the Christofascist MAGAt fever dream of ending American democracy in Roberts' book, which is why they don't want us to see it before November.  (All we need is one copy to be spirited away from the publisher... please!)

The toxicity of "Project 2025," the neo- fascist Heritage Foundation, and its Obergruppenführer president Roberts has dawned in the dim, feral "brain" of the Malignant Loser, who has denied knowledge of it and of Roberts:

“I have no idea who is behind it,” he said early last month. Later in the month, he said any association between him and the project was “disinformation.” 

And at a stop at a manufacturing center in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, Vance distanced the Trump campaign from Project 2025. 

"Disinformation."  Here are the receipts:

Unearthed photo: Trump flew on a private jet with Kevin Roberts, the leader of his Project 2025, despite claiming he has “no idea who is in charge of it.”

He then said his Project 2025 architects will “lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.” pic.twitter.com/DVnyOn7kbu

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 7, 2024

 

They can run, but they can't hide... the ball.

Yes, "Project 2025" Is Still Trump's Christofascist Plan, Cont.

 

Don't let anyone tell you that the Christofascist plan for another racist convicted felon Malignant Loser administration isn't "Project 2025." We just quoted Timothy Snyder's warning on the Malignant Loser's situational distancing himself from the Christofascist roadmap (see QOTD, below).  

But one of its feral fascist architects, Russell Vought, helpfully steps forward to say the quiet part loud:

Russell Vought sounds like a general marshaling troops for combat when he talks about taming a “woke and weaponized” federal government.

He recently described political opposition as “enemy fire that’s coming over the target,” while urging allies to be “fearless at the point of attack” and calling his policy proposals “battle plans.”

If former President Donald Trump wins a second term in November, Vought may get the opportunity to go on the offensive.

A chief architect of Project 2025 — the controversial conservative blueprint to remake the federal government — Vought is likely to be appointed to a high-ranking post in a second Trump administration. And he’s been drafting a so-far secret “180-Day Transition Playbook” to speed the plan’s implementation to avoid a repeat of the chaotic start that dogged Trump’s first term.

Among the small cadre of Trump advisers who has a mechanic’s understanding of how Washington operates, Vought has advised influential conservative lawmakers on Capitol Hill, held a top post in the Trump White House and later established his own pro-Trump think tank. Now, he’s being mentioned as a candidate to be Trump’s White House chief of staff, one of the most powerful positions in government. [snip]

Led by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, Project 2025 is a detailed 920-page handbook for governing under the next Republican administration. A whirlwind of hard-right ambitions, its proposals range from ousting thousands of civil servants and replacing them with Trump loyalists to reversing the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of medications used in abortions. Democrats for months have been using Project 2025 to hammer Trump and other Republicans, arguing to voters that it represents the former president’s true — and extreme — agenda...  (our emphasis)

Charitably speaking, that's the most anodyne description of the plan. Once again, Democracy Docket lays out the agenda's overarching goals:

1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.
   
2. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.
   
3. Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.
   
4. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution calls “the Blessings of Liberty.”

The rest of the document sketches out, in detail, how the next Republican administration can execute their goals on these four fronts. That includes comprehensive outlines on what the White House and every single federal agency should do to overhaul its goals and day-to-day operations — from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Defense, Small Business Administration and Financial Regulatory Agencies. Every sector of the executive branch has a detailed plan in Project 2025 that explains how it can carry out an ultra-conservative agenda. 

Thus, this primary document

... lays out what is essentially a “Christian nationalist vision of the United States, one in which married heterosexuality is the only valid form of sexual expression and identity; all pregnancies would be carried to term, even if that requires coercion or death; and transgender and gender-nonconforming people do not exist.”

The Malignant Loser's cowardly disclaimers notwithstanding, Vought and others in the Christofascist biosphere fully intend to implement "Project 2025" should their cult leader Malignant Loser return to the Oval Office.  What electoral considerations would restrain him then, as they do now?  After all, he promised his Christofascist followers they wouldn't have to vote anymore because everything would be fixed. You know, through "Project 2025" following the suspension of elections in America.  

We, along with many others, keep bringing up the danger of this Christofascist plan for governance because the truth, often repeated, is the best disinfectant.  The Malignant Loser and his Christofascist "Project 2025" plan need to be taken seriously and literally.

(Photo: Vought / AP file )

QOTD: "The Shift Is Basically A Scam"

Yale history professor and expert of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder was interviewed on the Malignant Loser's dishonest attempt to distance himself from Project 2025's extremist agenda, which dozens of his own former staff wrote so that he could implement his fascist vision of Government starting the day of his inauguration. From MSNBC (quote begins at 2:43):

"He's trusting that his people will believe him, no matter what he says. That is part of an authoritarian dynamic where you can lie to your own people and then you can say something completely different the next time and they nod their heads and say, ‘Oh yes, I knew it all along.’ That’s part of what it means to belong to that sort of thing. The shift is basically a scam.

He doesn’t have another transition team besides the people who are involved in writing Project 2025 and he doesn’t have another transition plan asides what’s written down in Agenda 47 and Project 25. That is it. That is the thing. There is no other thing. He can try to relabel it but as you say, what it stands for is quite clear. You're going to wreck the Federal Government, replace anybody who has any sense of responsibility with political appointees, allow what they call the 'administrative state' to cease to exist, which means that the Federal Government can't do anything for anybody. That means children won't get food assistance. It means Medicare deteriorates. It means pretty much everything the Federal Government does no longer works."

Of course, in the Malignant Loser's sick mind the Federal Government will work under Project 2025: for his personal interests, and for his retribution. It's a model of Government more suited to the regimes in Germany, Italy and Spain in the 1930s.

"Aftermath"

 

No, it's not about the Rolling Stones' album.  The folks at The Lincoln Project have a new video out about the aftermath of a Malignant Loser victory, and implementation of his fascistic "Project 2025" agenda.  Is this the America we want for ourselves?  Please share!

Poll: Opposition To "Project 2025" Grows With Knowledge

 

Turns out the more voters know about "Project 2025," the MAGAt cult's fascist agenda for governance, the less they like it (click to enlarge):

That's why it's important to keep hammering the MAGAt Republican Party and their cult leader on the sheer un- American extremism of it, however much they seek to deny authorship.  Get up to speed on it (go to link above).  Explain to people what it means for them in their lives, and how its economic and social policies would devastate them and those around them.

There are two sides in this election: one that stands for democracy and one that doesn't.  It's on every one of us to make sure democracy wins that fight.

Malignant Loser Asks "What's Project 2025"?

As November grows nearer, the Malignant Loser, who works a con like few others, is trying to fuzz up his cult's position on women's reproductive choice, eliminating anti-abortion zealots from the RNC platform committee. He knows their position and his despicable lead in eliminating Roe v. Wade are toxic to the majority of Americans. 

Now the slippery grifter has heard a lot of people recoiling in horror at the Heritage Foundation's neo-fascist document, "Project 2025," which lays out a far-right fever dream of a totalitarian America that would be implemented on day one -- violently if necessary -- if the Malignant Loser is elected. It would level the Federal Government and make the remaining people servants of the Malignant Loser, among other plans. He realizes that more publicity about those plans being his blueprint for destroying democracy will lose votes among independent voters, so he's lying that he knows nothing about it. The Washington Post:

"The plan from the Heritage Foundation, known as Project 2025, pitches a sweeping overhaul of the federal government should Trump win a second term, including far more power for the executive branch. Many people involved in the effort are former Trump administration officials, and Trump publicly allied himself with the think tank as president.

Despite that, Trump said on his Truth Social platform that he knows 'nothing about Project 2025.'

'I have no idea who is behind it,' he wrote Friday. 'I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.'”  (our emphasis)

Unsurprisingly, he's lying through his veneered teeth, and demonstrating that his core principles are negotiable. The "Project 2025" document has been ballyhooed throughout MAGAworld and the right-wing ecosphere for months and months, with the common refrain that it would allow the Malignant Loser to "hit the ground running" and avoid the long start up time in his first term.

As he sees President Biden in political trouble, the Malignant Loser is counting on his slavish cult members to stick with him as he cons independents into thinking his positions have moderated....at least until January 20, 2025.

(photo: Associated Press)