Project 2025 is a roadmap for Trump’s radical-Republican administration to remove the guardrails on capitalism. It will eviscerate government as we know it.
Here are the fun bullet points:
- Federal Restructuring: Aimed at dismantling what is termed the “administrative state,” the plan seeks to consolidate executive power (the authoritarian strongman model). It proposes significant agency overhauls, potentially eliminating or slashing several federal departments (welcome to Argentina). The strategy includes making civil service roles more politically aligned through the “Schedule F” initiative, which would reclassify federal employees as at-will workers, removing their job protections (all government employees are now Trump employees).
- Immigration Policy: The document calls for extensive measures, including mass deportations and bolstering border enforcement (the ICEman cometh!). We will see private detention centers and concentration camps built to hold “targets,” separate families, and create life-threatening emergencies for the “illegals” – with massive government contracts with the private sector to build, operate and manage detention facilities (the American Gulag). It describes one of the largest deportation operations in U.S. history and promotes measures to curtail asylum options, while also focusing on the construction of more border barriers. (We are now free to pick our own produce, build our own houses, and fix our own highways… yay, freedom).
- Deregulation and Energy: Project 2025 will roll back environmental regulations to promote fossil fuel powered energy independence, ramping up dirty fuel (coal, oil, gas) production and reducing the regulatory footprint of agencies like the EPA (if the agency survives at all). It advocates for opening federal lands to more energy extraction and minimizing climate-related oversight (bye, fresh air and clean water!)
- Education Reform: The plan pushes for greater state control over education policy, aiming to reduce federal oversight and promote school choice, including charter schools and vouchers. Books will be banned. Guns will be part of the teacher’s toolkit. Let’s accelerate the dumbing down of society (bye, science!).
- Judicial and Legislative Strategy: New right-wing judicial appointments will cement long-term policy gains and steamroll Republican-controlled Congress legislation (women, watch out).
In short, we can kiss democracy goodbye. We will replace the bureaucratic deep state with Trump’s deep state.
How do we resist this descent into trumpfuckery?
Stay tuned.