Sunday, September 8, 2024

What Project 2025 Is and Isn't

A search doesn't find where I've written about Project 2025 in any detail. Let's be clear about what it is and is not. 

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, gathered a group of quite conservative thinkers to put together what amounts to a conservative "wish list." The result was Project 2025. 

A Democrat equivalent would be to get the progressive "squad" consisting of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, etc. together with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and ask them to construct a wish list of the socialist things they'd ideally like our government to do.

Blaming the whole Democrat Party for the squad's wish list would be no more fair than blaming Trump for Project 2025. The squad doesn't represent the entire D party. Project 2025 doesn't represent the whole GOP. In each case the subgroup is the party's most "out there," impractically radical members.

Life is filled with unintended consequences. Heritage did Trump no favor by releasing their wish list when they did.