The public interest group Common Cause described Project 2025 as “a dangerous policy playbook for the next Republican president. It could threaten basic freedoms by gutting checks and balances and consolidating power in the office of the president, like other authoritarian governments.”
Spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, the $22-million-dollar Project 2025’s authors and partners draw heavily from the Trump administration. More than two-thirds of its “partner organizations” are funded, at least in part, by the Koch network of right-wing financiers, or the activist Leonard Leo, whose organization has placed six Republican partisans on the Supreme Court—along with hundreds of other federal judges nationwide.
Voting Rights and Civil Rights
Perhaps the most dangerous change of Project 2025 would be the disenfranchisement of millions of voters by rolling back key provisions of the Voting Rights Act, thus eliminating the hard-won opportunities African Americans have achieved to vote—and have their votes counted. With that as a first step, the Heritage Foundation plan would, ultimately, bring about Donald Trump’s goal, enunciated to a “Believers Summit” organized by the white supremacist group Turning Point Action, that 2024 will be the last election Americans will see. The event took place in West Palm Beach, FL, on July 26. Trump’s full closing comments were:
“We have to win this election, most important election ever. We want a landslide that’s too big to rig. If you want to save America, get your friends, get your family, get everyone you know and vote. Vote early, vote absentee, vote on Election Day. I don’t care how, but you have to get out and vote. And again, Christians, get out and vote just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote…
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