The head of of the Heritage Foundation, who organized Project 2025, is calling it a part of a “Second American Revolution” that will be
“bloodless if the Left allows it.” How promising. That is not the rhetoric of standard, run of the mill politics.
To summarize Project 2025 as just “hey, they just want to make conservative appointments” is a total and gross misrepresentation—and that should be obvious, because if that’s all it was, they wouldn’t need a 1000 page manual or any type of unified Project to do it, would they?
Right now, only about 4000 federal positions are at-will, meaning they can easily be fired and changed from administration to administration—Trump plans to reinstate his previous executive order called
Schedule F, which he signed in Oct 2020 but never got to implement due to losing the election. Schedule F vastly expands the number of fireable federal employees to something like 50,000+. The key here is not appointing “conservatives,” generically, but rather
Trump loyalists.
—I shouldn’t have to remind people that history has plenty of examples of times a government was solely loyal to one man, and this typically does not go well, to say the least.
This plan includes such “highlights” as completely gutting the DOJ, install loyalists, remove its independence, and grant it expansive new powers. Also “re-examining” (cough) the tradition of providing work space for the White House Press Corps (i.e., eliminating press oversight), gutting all D, E, and I programs, gutting anything to do with LGBTQ people….
Nothing about this is normal. Nothing about this is run of the mill. For those who say “durr fascism could never happen here,” it certainly can, and this is how it starts.