"A Democratic operative who has seen private polling on how a number of issues could move the 2024 presidential election — like health care, the economy and immigration — told NOTUS that, improbably, no issue was benefiting Democrats more than Project 2025. And, predictably, Democrats are capitalizing on the unpopular plan.”
Project 2025 is merely the logical result of the GOP allowing MAGA to completely take over the party.
Project 2025 is what you end up with when people in power are allowed to just arbitrarily ban things they don’t like. Then, when asked about the problems that come up with banning something, they double down and enact more bans. And then they do it again when even more problems creep up, leading to an endless circle of needless problems and more bans, leading to things like Hank Aaron’s biography and books by Judy friggin Blume being banned. When Superfudge! ends up on your radar for being inappropriate, I think it’s safe to say you’ve long since lost the plot.
Project 2025 is what you end up with when you answer cruelty with more cruelty, because anything else is capitulation and weakness. It’s what happens when you go all the way down the anti-abortion rabbit hole to the point where you’re defending forcing 10 year old children to give birth to their rapist’s children. It’s what you get when doctors are forced to tell women they can’t get care because they’re not dying hard enough yet. All because some old men who will never have to worry about this stuff won’t get it through their heads that maybe, just maybe, abortions may actually be necessary once in a while.
Project 2025 is what you end up with when the GOP sees these campaigns working, very successfully, at a grass-roots level. It’s what you get when the GOP sees school boards taken over by MAGA Republicans who use everything from intimidation to violence to force their way onto schoolboards and city councils. It’s what you get when you see schools and colleges with enormous dumpsters nearby, filled with books put on some banlist somewhere by these people. It’s what you get when openly corrupt judges like Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Aileen Cannon continue to act with impunity. It’s the logical answer to the question of “If these tactics have been successful up and down our government at various points, shouldn’t we just be doing it everywhere?”
Project 2025 is what you end up with when 74 million people, including 12 million people who did not vote for Trump in 2016, saw what he did over 4 years, and said “Yes! I want more of that!” in 2020. It’s what happens when the most well known people in congress are a QAnon crossfit trainer, a disgraced college football coach, and a woman most well known for copping a feel at a Beetlejuice play, while watching career politicians who stick to actual policy issues (even if they are issues I disagree with) being forced out of Congress entirely. It’s what you end up with when these people start taking the masks off and aren’t immediately ousted. It’s what happens when it takes six fucking months to eject George Santos even when their own oversight committees couldn’t even verify his identity. It’s what happens when everybody just starts asking “Why are we even bothering to keep the masks on? It’s not like anyone is gonna do anything about it anyway.”
And it’s what you end up with when the whole lot of them are being led by a dime-store Hitler wannabe who’s own hubris will not let him learn that even the most extreme people have their limits, and even his former staunch supporters are slamming on the brakes and saying “Hol’ up, here…”
I loved every moment of reading that.
Good comment, but just wanted to point out, that was almost entirely astroturfing.