Are you ready for Project 2025 and a “second American Revolution”?
This is how the Heritage Foundation’s Kevin Robert’s stridently introduces Project 2025: “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Project 2025 is the second American Revolution. It is a far-reaching plan to gut or end popular programs and usher in a new gilded age, or Gilead, or worse — if people of good will acquiesce.
How do they plan to accomplish this remaking of America?
Step 1: By having President Donald Trump issue an executive order to activate a human resources procedure called Schedule F, eliminate civil service protections and establish a federal workforce answerable only to President Trump’s retrograde whims and fancies.
Step 2: Begin the revolution by infusing the precepts of Christian nationalism in government and public life, including eliminating all abortions, same-sex marriage and in vitro fertilization; privatize Medicare and significantly cut Medicaid rolls; eliminate or abolish federal agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department of Education; end all government activities associated with fighting climate change; and provide billions in tax cuts for the wealthy.
This list barely scratches the surface of Project 2025 public policy proposals.
Trump now says this of Project 2025: “I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying.”
The truth is this: If you turn to Project 2025’s table of contents, you will find many chapters written by former Trump administrators, including Ken Cuccinelli, Russell Vought, Rick Dearborn, Paul Dans, Roger Severino, Ben Carson, Peter Navarro and others.
Trump is asking you to believe that, even though members of his cabinet and sub-cabinet wrote subject-matter chapters in Project 2025, he has “no idea who is behind it.”
Recently, a friend of mine reminded me of this famous Thomas Paine quote found in his essay “The Crisis,” written during the first American Revolution: “These are the times that try men’s souls.” Indeed. Paine went on to ask that his compatriots not “shrink from service of their country.”
No “sunshine patriot” here, I plan to work harder than ever to elect patriotic Democrats committed to the precepts of the first American Revolution.
Mike Anthony
Westhampton
Anthony is a former chair of the Southampton Democratic Committee — Ed.
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