In fresh weeks, not bad news has been reported from outside the ocean – at least until this text was written and First presidential debate. We found that Donald Trump was considered guilty of breaking laws on the financing of electoral campaigns was affected by his quotations: for the first time in many months in a nationwide survey led by Joe Biden.
Although it was surely information alternatively better than worse, this 1 swallow of spring does not make – Trump has long led in key states where the consequence is not predestined and which is why they usually decide the result of the election. So it is inactive rather likely that Trump will win in October – the reactions after Thursday's debate surely did not dispel any doubts. And if he wins, his next word is simply a nightmare.
We already have a taste. The Conservative-dominated ultimate Court He took women's right to abortion (and any judges of this erstwhile noble body have already sharpened their teeth on single-sex marriages or access to contraception), for this they legalized the sale of firearm caps that turn semi-automatic weapons into de facto automatic. Trump himself, in turn, announces revenge on all those who are presently dragging him in court, and his political opponents He's going to put you behind bars.. People with a better memory will callback that as early as during the 2016 campaign, he promised that Hillary Clinton would go to jail – and nothing came of it.
However, there is simply a large difference between Trump's first word of office and what could happen as early as January 2025. This difference can be summarised in 2 words: Project 2025.
To realize what it is Project 2025, you must first realize why Trump's first word did not end in disaster. First, in 2017, erstwhile Trump took over, Republican Party She inactive kept her level as such. An example is that the overwhelming majority of the members of both parties legislature fundamentally prevented Trump from abolishing sanctions against Russia for attempting to manipulate the elections in 2016.
Since then, however, much has changed. Of Trump's critics in Congress, it was fundamentally Mitt Romney, and the others either left politics like Liz Cheney, or come back on their knees like Lindsey Graham whether (sometimes utilized as Trump's Vice President) Nikki Haley. Secondly and more importantly, Trump's deficiency of preparation to take over in 2017 was visible to the bare eye. A short bench, which was supplemented with disletants, and frequent shifts in positions made it hard to implement any plan, if any.
When individual more experienced was hired, it turned out that they were alleged adults in the area who either explained to Trump that certain things could not be done, or simply did not follow his instructions in the hope that he would forget them. There were others like General John Kelly, 1 of the White home chiefs of staff who worked for Trump out of a sense of patriotic duty: he felt that the president of the United States was not denied, but that not for the President, but for the country. Trump himself complained about opposition within his own administration.
This mixture of incompetence, a staff carousel, and logs thrown at Trump's feet by people inside the White home made him mourn. effects of Trump's first term They were limited in range. The same besides caused that supporters Jesus of Cheeto concluded that the election promise of MAGA, i.e. restoring America to its erstwhile glory, failed to implement due to the fact that deep country It welded into the trough and sabotaged all the exchanges.
This is how we scope an initiative that has all this political imposibilism to break through and at the same time prepare a detailed governance plan. Project 2025 This is simply a multimillion-dollar strategy for coalitions of right-wing organizations united under the banner of Heritage Foundation.
There is no Trump in the task – only the "new Conservative President" is mentioned – but erstwhile collaborators of the Republican leader are involved. As the authors say, the axiom behind the full thought is "personnel is policy" – the most crucial in politics are the right people, or, as in Stalin's celebrated statement, that it is "kads who decide everything". manager Project 2025 Dan Paul statedthat its aim is to prepare “a fresh army of well-groomed, trained and adequately armed conservatives who will stand up to a deep state.
The task so creates a database of possible denominations whose ideological orientation guarantees loyalty and who will not so pronounce themselves by any procedures, conventions or laws. Selected people will have access to the “Presidential Academy”, which is online and stationary courses, in which lecturers associated with the task teach how Washington works and how to last in this viper nest, or how to usage social media and communicate with journalists to advance policies introduced by the President.
The task besides includes a part called a handbook, which clarifies how to take power from Biden, so as not to repeat the mistakes made in 2017. This plan boils down to the exchange of administrative staff where possible, and so to focus all executive power in the hands of the president by eliminating the independency of institutions specified as the Department of Justice or the national Trade Commission – we will come back to that.
All this is intended to enable the “new conservative president” to heal America. What kind of illness is the United States? There are respective correct statements in the diagnosis, but most are litany of typical right-wing obsession with shuria. Let's give the level to Kevin Roberts, Head of the Heritage Foundation and spiritus movens the full project. "Look at America's current ruling and cultural elites: inflation ravages household budgets, the number of deaths caused by drug overdose continues to rise, and children endure from toxic transgenderism in the form of drag queen invasions and pornography on school libraries" — Roberts' thunders in the introduction of a 9 hundred-page brick titled Mandate of leadership, or an ideological imagination behind the full venture.
It refers to the "long march of cultural Marxism by institutions", a behemoth in the form of a national government, utilized "in the war against American citizens and conservative values, which puts freedom at hazard as never before" (burning lily slavery or concentration camps for nipponese Americans of origin).
There were besides mentions of the "totalist communist dictatorship in Beijing" and "globalist elites in Washington" (of course in 1 sentence) or about ‘totalitarian cult’ woke in the US (two sentences further). "The most alarming thing is that the moral foundations of our society themselves are at risk," Roberts concludes. In another words, through all this levitation America is simply a country of heat and rigor, a rotten moral and a fall of value.
And the cure? To begin with, these are the ulterior slogans: Let us reconstruct the family's rightful place, defend the children, give power to the people and defend the sovereignty of the United States against global threats – and safe the "God-given" right to enjoy the "blessings of liberty." Even a brief reading is adequate to note that behind these wordings lies a fundamentalistic nightmare from Cache Tales. Protection of the household and children is an intensification of cultural wars, further attacks on the rights of trans persons, a complete ban on abortion (“Dobbs This is only the beginning) and the fight against sex idealology and all non-discrimination, equality and diversity. From here besides close to the ban on divorce (this is not even a guess: Republicans are already trying to figure out how effectively make it hard to solve marriages by agreement of the parties).
Under the pretext of fighting the administrative behemoth authors Mandate of Leadership request that the Education Department, or the central institution, be liquidated, which is liable for financial support for frequently inefficient education budgets at state level. Under parental freedom slogans, they request a national ban on the usage of pronouns another than those corresponding to the sex attributed at birth.
For the same reason, authors want teachers and librarians, who will teach about transgenderity, to be punished like rapists (because it's actually an ideology of transgenderism, or sexualizing child-addicting pornography just as drugs) and to throw out critical racial explanation from educational institutions (because it's racist and spreads anti-American lies).
The obsession with schools should not surprise, due to the fact that it is part of the long-tested strategy of the right, not only in the US. It consists of starving or otherwise destroying the public sector in order to push parents into a private marketplace where they will be decently profiled by ideological schools. erstwhile this happens, the restoration of public education with its mission to reduce inequality will take decades – with the optimistic presumption that it will be possible at all.
W Mandat There could be no shortage of positions specified as the fight against "green extremism", the return to almost unlimited fossil fuel usage or the cut-off of the backing of the Environmental Protection Agency. So there is simply a chance that the introduction of Gilead in the United States will fail, due to the fact that the climate disaster will happen sooner.
Note besides the rhetorical layer Mandate. It is simply a language of war and mobilization to fight, which under the appearance of uncompromising serves to smuggle conspiracy theories and wink an eye to the far right. Tales of globalistic elites aligned with global institutions are references to the nonsense of the fresh planet Order and attempts to make a planet government above the heads of nations. Poorly veiled suggestions that control deep state elites sneakyly sexualize children, it's a script almost word for word taken from QAnon conspiracy theories.
The liberal elites in question evidently hatred the actual America, because, Roberts says, “nearly all top university rector present or hedge fund manager on Wall Street has more in common with the socialist head of the European state than parents watching a advanced school American football match in Waco, Texas.”
For the Polish reader, the mention to Waco may seem random, due to the fact that the name mainly associates with David Koresh and the highly inept assault of national law enforcement authorities on the seat of his sect in Waco, which ended with a fire and consumed 86 victims.
In the U.S., this mention is beautiful dark, due to the fact that to the far right, Waco is next to Ruby Ridge the most crucial symbol of bloody repression by the national government. Among another things, the violent scenes from Waco radicalized Timothy McVeigh and pushed him to make the second largest next to September 11, 2001 a terrorist attack in the United States. This mention is simply a clear signal for 3 Percent, Proud Boy and another armed cryptofascists (and not always even crypto) who on January 6, 2021 They invaded the Capitol.. These people know that they were the ones who were blinked at.
For the mobilisation of armed militants authoritarian urges of authors Mandate They do not halt because, as already mentioned, the full strategy is to aid focus power in the hands of the President. The doctrinal foundation of this thought is "unified executive theory", which, like many bad things in the US, is the work of Ronald Reagan. Reagan, a lover of the free marketplace (although not necessarily freedom itself) during his deregulation mania struggled with independent control and regulatory institutions that tempered his urges. Although these institutions functioned within the executive authority, they were established under legislature laws, whose provisions in different ways guaranteed independency from the President. Reagan and the company didn't like it, so they started saying that no 1 should be able to argue the president as part of the execution.
The argument was simple: since according to Article 2. The U.S. Constitution holds executive power, it is the existence of independent institutions within the administration – that is, executions – that is, is incompatible with the Constitution. Of course, he was sucked from his finger, but for lovers of returning to the good old days he sounded attractive: the chief was to be only one.
Ideas of Heritage Foundation and another creators Project 2025 It's Reagan's ideology on steroids. According to them, the president would not only be the actual head of all regulators, but could besides direct the full administration. This means the end of professional civilian service and replacing it with denominations from political broadcasting. As part of the centralisation of power, it is besides planned to depart from the regulation of independency of the Justice Department, which would enable the president to usage law enforcement against political opponents. This standard was established after the Watergate affair, erstwhile president Nixon had just done so and lost his position (because the Republicans then had a spine and persuaded him to leave).
In the explanation of the Heritage Foundation, the president would besides have the right to unilaterally suspend backing for programmes or institutions that he does not like, even if legislature allocates funds to it in the budget. In the American system, the alleged bag power, or constitutionally guaranteed control of the budget, is the largest weapon of legislature against usurpation by executive authority. Allowing the president to ignore budget laws and regulations in practice means that legislature is losing this weapon. In the optimistic version, this will affect judicial trials of competence and paralysis of power. In a pessimistic version, this would mean a real systemic change from the presidential strategy to the authoritarian gutter of plebiscitarism.
Can this wet Confederate dream and nightmare of anyone who has any contact with reality come true? Let's keep 2 things in mind. First, fresh Mandateleadership is not the first specified publication of the Heritage Foundation; past shows that right-wing politicians enjoy the recommendations contained therein. The first edition appeared just after the election of Reagan as president (did I mention that many bad things in the United States have a beginning in Reagan's governments?) and caused the Heritage Foundation to become an crucial institution creating the direction of public policies. It is said that 60 percent of the about 2 1000 proposals contained in the first Mandat Reagan realized or at least tried to implement.
After the 2016 election, the eighth edition Trump reportedly executed or attempted to accomplish 64%. Recalling the first edition, current authors claim that Reagan and conservative activists outside the administration began to talk the same language. In practice, this means that Mandate provides the basis for the President's accounting for the implementation of very concrete demands and solutions.
The second crucial thing is that the erstwhile editions were not accompanied by a akin effort to recruit possible denominations for public administration, which would include Mandat The imagination has undertaken to implement. The strategy of pushing its people into crucial positions is of course not new; the national Society, for years, has implemented it in the case of the judiciary and so effectively that Trump has delegated to them the process of selecting denominations for vacancy in national courts. Thanks to this, all six conservative ultimate Court judges, including 3 Trump nominees, These are people associated with the Federalist Society.
Heritage Foundation and its partners plan to apply the same maneuver to fill the full administration, as Trump and his men have drawn from the first term, may succeed. To those who don't want to be disillusioned, I propose you get ready to ride without holding.
