It's cute the way trump (and apparently Vance) are now trying to distance themselves from Project 2025. On this board when the subject was first broached, it was some of the biggest Trumpers on the board who raved about Project 2025. The President of Heritage (Kevin Roberts) basically encapsulated the driving pirit of Project 2025 in his forthcoming new release
Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America, And JD Vance wrote the forward and a positive review on Amazon...
"Vance also left an editorial review on
Amazon, writing: "
"Never before has a figure with Roberts's depth and stature within the American Right tried to articulate a genuinely new future for conservatism... We are now all realizing that it's time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon."
Of course he is free to love the book, write glowing reviews and he did so in June before being tapped to join Trump's weird team. But he was also the Heritaqge preferred VP choice,and for Trump to pretend he didn't know any of that is laughable. Of course Trump's a massive liar and only very gullible people swallow his nonsensical claims. But the point is they know that most of what is in Project 2025 is anathema to a majority of US voters, so they are now pretending they aren't entrenched in it's policies/ objectives...
Basically to me P2025 in it's essence boils down to the silly right wing concept of making the POTUS omnipotent and breaking down the separation of powers and checks/balances on Presidentail power. The concept of replacing (non-partisan) civil servants with party lackeys, is directly attributable to Trump not having a compliant DOJ willing to rubber stamp his Big Lie theories in 2020.
It springs from the wacky Unitarian theory of Executive power which Trump,Alito,Thomas,Kavanaugh and others all ascribe to. That's why both the Federalist society and Heritage foundation provided Trump with a check list of acceptable SCOTUS choices... To be fair, Trump would likely not be a proponent unless he or a crony were POTUS and he personally benefited. That's how self-centered he is.
But the others are true believers who believe the POTUS should be a strong figure who controls the Executive Branch with basically unchecked authority. I'm going to attribute that belief to the knowledge that they know they are a shrinking minority. The Pubs have only won the popular vote (which indicates how most voters actually feel, regaqrdless of where they live,) only once this century. But they have an EC advantage and their goal seems to be to get an acceptable choice into the oval office and fundamentally change various aspects of American governance that would last for generations and be very difficult to undo.
Again that's "fine" as long as they are open and willing to embrace their goals,not hide them from the voting public. But for Trump to pretend he's not a bigger part of that objective is a joke. Several members of his Administration are up to their eyebrows in P2025, the Heritage Foundation was hugely supportive to Trump financially, and he has appeared before conventions/meetings numerous times.
Trump called in to Fox/Fiends this am, and said he only heard about Project 2025 "last week". But you'll notice at arond 9 mins of this video Roberts, who was introduced by Trump at the NRB Convention is openly discussing Project 2025 wih Trump literally on the stage.
Like I said, you really have to be gullible to buy Trump's disavowal of any knowledge of Project 2025