Embracing Crazy, Part II

I FIRST HEARD ABOUT somethng called "The 2025 Project some time ago, but didn't think much about it. I dismissed it as unimportant. From what I heard, it sounded like some screwball conservative conspiracy and plan on how to defeat the forces of evil (progressivism) and restore true conservative values to America, or something like that. Finally, I decided to do a little reading about it, and learn something. What I learned is that the 2025 Project is essentially what I thought it to be; a wild conservative plan based on a conspiracy theory. In other words, nonsense. The idea was hatched in 2022, and put together in detail on paper by the Heritage Foundation, that infamous right wing "think" tank. It is a plan, consisting of four fundamental "pillars", as to what might happen if Trump is elected this year. It is based on the wild, false conspiracy theory, popular among the far right, that the roughly two million bureaucrats who work for the federal government are a subversive, left wing organization, overflowing with leftist radicals, who constitute a shadow government, what they call "the deep state". The Deep State, it seems, is out to get Trump, and thus must be destroyed. Needless to say this is all pcychotic, fabricated nonsense, but, hey, isn't that basically what modern American conservatism is all about? On inauguration day, hundreds of thousands of chosen MAGA conservatives will march into Washington, a veritable mob (here we go again), and be appointed by newly inaugurated President Trump to replace all the deep state people, who will be summarily fired. An entire federal bureaucracy, thrust into office in one day, devotedly, faithful to Trump, exclusively. The 2025 Project supports the legal theory that the U.S. President has sole, complete power over the entire executive branch, including te Department of Justice. Under Trump, that theory would be put into effect. The cabinet would be filled with Trump worshipping sycophants, again, as it was the first time around, with disastrous results. The federal regularoty agencies, and there are many of them, would essentially be eliminated or stripped of real power. The EPA, for example, would be eliminated, and the government would offer no resistance to renewed fossil fuel use, and would cease and desist all activities and projects related to fighting climate change. In other words,The 2025 Project would be suicidal, globally. The Departments of Education,Commerce, and Energy would be eliminated. Paving the way for a society with a weak central government, corporate control, and neoliberal capitalism. There is a strong Christian Nationalism component to The 2025 Project. The plan would be to insinuate the Christian religion into every corner of government and society, making it,in essence, the offical religion of these United States. An abortion ban would be enacted into federal law. Their would be a much flatter tax code, with only two brackets, neither giving the poor a break nor taxing the wealthy meaningfully. Also, all of these crazy school related initiatives already in place in conservative states, such as eliminating inclusion studies, racial history, and LGTBQ culture entirely from public education, would remain intact, and spread to the entire country. The 2025 Project would reverse at least fifty or one hundred years of progress, and attempt to return America to its less compassionate, more socially rigid, dogmatic past. It wouldn't take much time for everyone, including conservatives, to suffer under the impact of this insanity.