For anyone unaware, Project 2025 was/is a comprehensive conservative policy blueprint developed by The Heritage Foundation and supported by an alliance of over 100 conservative organizations. It provides a detailed roadmap for transforming the federal government and implementing conservative policies in a Republican presidential administration.
That's copied off a website; my shorter version would call it a fucking batshit scary set of changes that will supercharge the reshaping of the US into a fascist, and even more divided, nation. Here's the key themes, if you're interested:
| Area | Key Proposals / Changes |
|---|
| Executive Power & Bureaucracy | Maximize presidential control over all executive branch agencies; reclassify many civil-service roles as political appointments; diminish agency independence. |
| Immigration & DHS | Abolish the Department of Homeland Security and reconstitute it as a stricter, more centralized immigration agency; broaden powers to detain, deport, enforce; privatize some border controls. |
| Social & Cultural Issues | Eliminate protections for LGBTQ+ identities; restrict or repeal abortion rights entirely, including via executive orders; dismantle “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs; enforce a more conservative definition of family. |
| Education & Research | Close federal Department of Education; move federal roles to states; purge “critical race theory” and “gender ideology” from curricula; restrict funding for climate science, social science, and research seen as ideologically biased. |
| Health & Welfare | Slash Medicaid, Medicare and welfare funding; cut or cap federal health programs; restructure NIH and HHS to remove DEI and expand the ability to fire staff; reject gender-affirming care. |
| Environment & Energy | Dismantle or shrink EPA; end climate regulation; withdraw from international climate commitments; favor fossil fuel expansion. |
| National Security & Military | Expand nuclear arsenal, accelerate missile programs; treat foreign aid more cautiously; take a hardline stance on China; further integrate national security with executive oversight. |
Not everything listed there is
completely mental, but most is, imo.
When this was published a while ago, Trump the rapist denied all knowledge not only of the document but of the people who put it together. Said there was no chance of his governement, if they got in, of enacting such fairy tales. Then, he appointed Russell Voght to lead their Office of Management and Budget, and Brendan Carr to lead the FCC; both of course contributed bigly to this blueprint. Rightio then.
Anyway, to the point. Is any of this batshit crazy stuff ever actually going to happen?
Well, we're 270 days in and they've managed to implement a lot. There's a tracker website that estimates a staggering
48% of it has been done so far. So much for it being a load of pie-in-the-sky right-wing bullshit.
Of course the tracker will no doubt have some bias and shoogly reasoning within it, so it's to be taken with a pinch of salt; however it's still a good resource for drilling down into the objectives here and what is actually being done to meet them, if you're interested:
