By John Q. Hosedrinker 
Despite initially disavowing Project 2025, Trump has appointed several key contributors to his administration, including Russell Vought, Peter Navarro, and Brendan Carr. Vought, who advocated for overhauling the executive branch and reducing federal agency funding, has directed the Office of Management and Budget and co-authored a memo bracing agencies for mass layoffs. Navarro, who proposed raising tariffs and holding China accountable, now serves as senior counselor for trade and manufacturing. Carr, who sought reforms at the FCC, including addressing TikTok and reining in big tech, has taken the helm as chairman of the agency.
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The key Project 2025 authors are now staffing the Trump administration. This wasn’t exactly a secret, you know? It’s like, anyone paying attention, and I mean *anyone*, could see this coming. It feels almost absurd that it’s even a headline now. It’s been out in the open, a plan laid bare. Project 2025 wasn’t just about some vague set of policies; it was a concerted staffing effort, a recruitment drive to fill the positions and make those policies a reality. That’s what made it truly concerning.
The public was made aware of Project 2025’s existence a while ago. It wasn’t some hidden master plan. It’s just a comprehensive compilation of everything the right wing has been pushing for what seems like forever, just repackaged under a new name. The scary part wasn’t the policies themselves – those have been around for decades – but the people, the *staffing*, the individuals hand-picked to implement these goals. It was and is, an attempt to reshape the country in their own image.
It’s really not a complex scheme; it’s a checklist of long-held conservative ambitions. The focus has to be on the staffing element, the people who will be wielding the power. Think about it: Trump was somewhat hampered last time because he couldn’t get his people into the positions he needed. Project 2025 was designed to solve that problem, to get the right folks in place. This is what’s really dangerous.
A lot of folks seem to have missed the forest for the trees. The staffing is the key issue! Trump himself even denied any involvement, but that was a lie. The media coverage seemed strangely muted, almost complicit. It’s almost as if it was intentionally downplayed, which is a major disservice to the public.
The Heritage Foundation is a central player here. Its president, Kevin D. Roberts, along with key figures like Derrick Morgan and Victoria Coates, are at the heart of this. They’ve got their fingers in many pies, and they’re pushing these ideas, these policies, with relentless determination. Many of the names associated with Heritage are actively involved with Project 2025. It’s really quite open when you examine who is doing what, but it seems it’s been ignored.
Other prominent figures at the Heritage Foundation are involved, like Hans von Spakovsky, deeply involved in election law reform, and Lindsey M. Burke, focused on education policy. The list goes on, a veritable who’s who of conservative thinkers and strategists who are all driving this agenda. They, and other groups, have laid out this whole agenda.
It’s critical to understand the historical context, too. The shift in the Republican party, with the embrace of abortion and other social issues, was a calculated move. It was a tool to galvanize a base and get them fired up. The Southern whites who left the Democratic party after the Civil Rights Act were searching for a cause that they could rally around, so the right-wing machine used abortion as a prime wedge issue, helping push this agenda forward.
Their ultimate goals are concerning, pushing for a version of Christian Sharia Law. We’re talking about a radical transformation, a rollback of civil rights and social progress, including things like restricting voting rights and political office for women, banning abortion and birth control, and dismantling LGBT rights, among many other things. These are scary ideas.
This isn’t a quick process, either. It’s a long game. They’re aiming for a long-term shift in the country, one where their vision of America is the only one that exists. They will do what they can, no matter the cost. And they will use any and all means necessary to achieve this, as they already have.