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At this point, 'Republican" is just the name on the label, right there next to the yellow sticker with the skull and crossbones.
A well-funded coalition wants to put the Bible ahead of the Constitution.
If this fanatical “Project 2025” if implemented would be the end of democracy and freedom in this country too?!!
You may have noticed, but you probably didn't, that here in the shebeen we have started to refer to the current right-wing politicians as conservatives rather than Republicans. "Republican" is just the name on the label, right there next to the yellow sticker with the skull and crossbones, indicating that there is poison within. American conservatism, in virtually all its manifestations, is the poison.
It's why I have limited patience for many of our Never Trump allies. (Except for Stuart Stevens, who seems to take much the same long view that I do that many of them contributed not only to the ratfucking and nasty politics they so deplore now, but also to a series of godawful policies beginning with the narcotic fantasy of supply-side economics that has led them into the dark intellectual woods in which they now reside. It is the prion disease that always waxes and never wanes, that exists in a state of permanent relapse.
The Associated Press put together a precise prediction of the future course of the disease. It is not a promising diagnosis.
Led by the long-established Heritage Foundation think tank and fueled by former Trump administration officials, the far-reaching effort is essentially a government-in-waiting for the former president’s return — or any candidate who aligns with their ideals and can defeat President Joe Biden in 2024. With a nearly 1,000-page “Project 2025” handbook and an “army” of Americans, the idea is to have the civic infrastructure in place on Day One to commandeer, reshape and do away with what Republicans deride as the “deep state” bureaucracy, in part by firing as many as 50,000 federal workers. “We need to flood the zone with conservatives,” said Paul Dans, director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project and a former Trump administration official who speaks with historical flourish about the undertaking. “This is a clarion call to come to Washington,” he said. “People need to lay down their tools, and step aside from their professional life and say, ‘This is my lifetime moment to serve.’”
The unprecedented effort is being orchestrated with dozens of right-flank organizations, many new to Washington, and represents a changed approach from conservatives, who traditionally have sought to limit the federal government by cutting federal taxes and slashing federal spending. Instead, Trump-era conservatives want to gut the “administrative state” from within, by ousting federal employees they believe are standing in the way of the president’s agenda and replacing them with like-minded officials more eager to fulfill a new executive’s approach to governing.
Sounds promising. But that first sentence is the key. This authoritarian wet dream is shared by enough elements of American conservatism that it is a perfect demonstration of what American conservatism is all about in 2023 CE. It isn't Trump. And it isn't a fluke change in our politics. It is what modern conservatism always has been— a vehicle to shove the nation's wealth upwards and to recreate an America run by inherited privilege and white skin.
“The president Day One will be a wrecking ball for the administrative state,” said Russ Vought, a former Trump administration official involved in the effort who is now president at the conservative Center for Renewing America. Much of the new president’s agenda would be accomplished by reinstating what’s called Schedule F — a Trump-era executive order that would reclassify tens of thousands of the 2 million federal employees as essentially at-will workers who could more easily be fired. Biden had rescinded the executive order upon taking office in 2021, but Trump — and other presidential hopefuls — now vow to reinstate it.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a44948964/conservatives-trump-2025-project/
Instituting “biblically based” policies, saving souls and inducing Sabbath observance constitute a direct attack on religious freedom, a freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, which keeps the government out of religion. Guthrie Graves Fitzsimmons
A well-funded coalition wants to put the Bible ahead of the Constitution.
If this fanatical “Project 2025” if implemented would be the end of democracy and freedom in this country too?!!
You may have noticed, but you probably didn't, that here in the shebeen we have started to refer to the current right-wing politicians as conservatives rather than Republicans. "Republican" is just the name on the label, right there next to the yellow sticker with the skull and crossbones, indicating that there is poison within. American conservatism, in virtually all its manifestations, is the poison.
It's why I have limited patience for many of our Never Trump allies. (Except for Stuart Stevens, who seems to take much the same long view that I do that many of them contributed not only to the ratfucking and nasty politics they so deplore now, but also to a series of godawful policies beginning with the narcotic fantasy of supply-side economics that has led them into the dark intellectual woods in which they now reside. It is the prion disease that always waxes and never wanes, that exists in a state of permanent relapse.
The Associated Press put together a precise prediction of the future course of the disease. It is not a promising diagnosis.
Led by the long-established Heritage Foundation think tank and fueled by former Trump administration officials, the far-reaching effort is essentially a government-in-waiting for the former president’s return — or any candidate who aligns with their ideals and can defeat President Joe Biden in 2024. With a nearly 1,000-page “Project 2025” handbook and an “army” of Americans, the idea is to have the civic infrastructure in place on Day One to commandeer, reshape and do away with what Republicans deride as the “deep state” bureaucracy, in part by firing as many as 50,000 federal workers. “We need to flood the zone with conservatives,” said Paul Dans, director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project and a former Trump administration official who speaks with historical flourish about the undertaking. “This is a clarion call to come to Washington,” he said. “People need to lay down their tools, and step aside from their professional life and say, ‘This is my lifetime moment to serve.’”
The unprecedented effort is being orchestrated with dozens of right-flank organizations, many new to Washington, and represents a changed approach from conservatives, who traditionally have sought to limit the federal government by cutting federal taxes and slashing federal spending. Instead, Trump-era conservatives want to gut the “administrative state” from within, by ousting federal employees they believe are standing in the way of the president’s agenda and replacing them with like-minded officials more eager to fulfill a new executive’s approach to governing.
Sounds promising. But that first sentence is the key. This authoritarian wet dream is shared by enough elements of American conservatism that it is a perfect demonstration of what American conservatism is all about in 2023 CE. It isn't Trump. And it isn't a fluke change in our politics. It is what modern conservatism always has been— a vehicle to shove the nation's wealth upwards and to recreate an America run by inherited privilege and white skin.
“The president Day One will be a wrecking ball for the administrative state,” said Russ Vought, a former Trump administration official involved in the effort who is now president at the conservative Center for Renewing America. Much of the new president’s agenda would be accomplished by reinstating what’s called Schedule F — a Trump-era executive order that would reclassify tens of thousands of the 2 million federal employees as essentially at-will workers who could more easily be fired. Biden had rescinded the executive order upon taking office in 2021, but Trump — and other presidential hopefuls — now vow to reinstate it.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a44948964/conservatives-trump-2025-project/
Instituting “biblically based” policies, saving souls and inducing Sabbath observance constitute a direct attack on religious freedom, a freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, which keeps the government out of religion. Guthrie Graves Fitzsimmons
