I am not from America and lives in Europe. I am trying to understand what life and values the republicans in office right now wants for America. Is the 50’s America the kind of country they hope to go back to or is it somewhat of a new state we have never seen before?
I am genuinely wondering if they have some kind of “utopian” community in mind doing all these changes to the economy and values.
Read the Project 2025 (it’s a 900+page brick and expensive, but the PDF is freely downloadable), you will get a better understanding what they may want to achieve.
Saying that as an EU citizen, if this matters.
TL;DR: Project 2025 is a 920-page conservative blueprint created by the Heritage Foundation and 100+ organizations to radically reshape the federal government if Republicans win the presidency.
What is Project 2025?
Project 2025 is a comprehensive plan created by The Heritage Foundation along with over 100 conservative organizations to prepare for the next Republican presidential administration. The project aims to “assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State.” Wikipedia Heritage
The Four Pillars
Project 2025 is built on four main components:
Key Policy Proposals
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Trump Connection
Despite Trump’s public denials during the 2024 campaign, at least 140 people who worked on Project 2025 previously worked in Trump’s first administration. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts described the organization’s role as “institutionalizing Trumpism.” CBS News Wikipedia After winning the 2024 election, Trump nominated several Project 2025 architects to key positions, and analysis shows nearly two-thirds of his early executive actions mirror Project 2025 proposals. PBS ACLU
Timeline & Funding
Project 2025 was established in 2022 and represents an eight-figure investment from conservative organizations. Wikipedia The Heritage Foundation planned to have 20,000 vetted personnel in its database by 2024. Wikipedia
Bottom Line
Critics argue Project 2025 represents an unprecedented effort to rapidly implement far-right policies that could affect millions of Americans - from cutting overtime pay for 4.3 million workers to reducing food assistance for 40 million people. Democracy Forward Supporters see it as restoring conservative principles and rolling back decades of liberal policies, with some looking to reverse precedents from the 1960s Great Society, 1930s New Deal, and even 1880s civil service reforms. PBS
The plan’s comprehensive nature and rapid early implementation during Trump’s second term has made it one of the most significant policy frameworks in recent political history.
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Also check out BBC’s article. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c977njnvq2do
My concern as a citizen is the unfettered power of the president and loss of government institutions that were created to help and protect citizens. Our immigration process has been ducked for a long time but the anti immigration sentiment that is being stoked will have far reaching consequences that will impact families and our local economies from labor and tourism.
Imho, people should really read it and not just ask AI. Even more so US citizens.
It will impact far more than that, I’m afraid.
Once again, saying that as an EU-citizen witnessing the USA in the process of doing an almost perfect u-turn regarding its democratic-ideals (reading the Project 2025, one would get a much cleared idea why, beside the ‘conservative’ usual rhetoric), while our very own European and, in my case, French anti-immigration rhetoric are gaining a lot more traction… not all of them without any reason (as there are issues we should all be able to discuss freely and safely, no matter what we may think).
And that is not even the worst or most worrying thing that is happening. The worst being, as you rightfully pointed out already, the deconstruction of all institutions and at the same time the rapid erosion of the few ideals upon which said institutions were built. The same ideals and institutions that were supposed to prevent any grab of power by anyone, be they ‘us’ or ‘them’.