There is a manifesto that is circulating which is alarming to us and should be to you as well. Project 2025 is a 900-plus-page master plan financed by the Heritage Foundation. In it, more than 100 extreme right-wing organizations are openly calling for dismantling our federal government and giving “supreme” powers to a Republican president.
Donald Trump has indicated his willingness to implement this radical GOP platform. Where chaos defined Trump’s first term, the next GOP presidency will be a disciplined, coordinated implementation of a dystopia that should be feared. We have already heard the words “retribution.”
The project is currently identifying and training 20,000 Trump loyalists to take over the reins of government. Recruits include private lawyers and legal firms who are among a projected “army” of devotees being vetted to join the next administration and defend its radical proposals.
Project 2025 would place the entire Executive Branch under presidential control in the attempt to erase departmental independence and actually eliminate some departments. It plans on removing or redeploying some 50,000 career civil service employees, including the FBI and the DOJ. Can you spell dictator?
It plans to federally criminalize abortion, eliminate climate change mitigation, decimate worker’s rights, use the military to repress protests, remove health care safety nets and much more.
U.S. economists and business leaders are weighing in, warning about the many dangers that could result from replacing experienced professionals with partisan appointees with limited experience.
Why would we not want our research and work done by experts? An entire government beholden to one person? This is scary.
We must not let this GOP platform become the reality for our country. Be informed. Fight back. Make a plan to vote this November. Check your registration status atmvp.sos.ga.gov.
V. Johnson, A. Koppelmann, B. Gilkison, B. Hamilton, R. Pandina, C. Hamilton Greensboro