Project 2025 has been in the news and it’s very unpopular. It is a manifesto to recreate the US government and morph it into a Christian conservative state. The goal of Project 2025 would be to disavow the Constitution and the current republican, representative democracy. According to its authors, our democracy is too messy and now perhaps obsolete, and we would be better served by people in our government who could pass a loyalty test to Donald Trump and the people who want to control him should he return to the presidency.
They talk openly about a post-constitutional America. Hence it’s unpopular to people who have read about their blatant arrogant and authoritarian goals, which is why Trump is now disavowing the project and pretending he doesn’t know anything about it.
This deflection, of course, is part of Trump’s evil genius. He can say two contradictory things at once and never really be called out about them. In August 2017, he said there were “very fine people” on both sides of a white supremacist rally but then subsequently denounced the rally so that his supporters could cling to some sort of defense for him and allow themselves to be gaslit. ….more
