If you don’t want to read Project 2025, we summarized the key themes in our coverage of the Heritage Foundation’s “Policy Fest” at the Republican National Convention in July. Here is Michael Schaffer at Politico: Whenever Vice President Kamala Harris […]
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Trump on the policy proposals in Project 2025: “They are extreme, I mean they are seriously extreme”
If you want to a get a sense of The Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025,” check out our coverage of last Monday’s “Policy Fest,” a Heritage event held in conjunction with the Republican National Convention. The following organizations serve on the […]
Covering the Heritage Foundation’s “Policy Fest”
The Heritage Foundation, the organizing responsible for Project 2025, is hosting a “Policy Fest” today at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. You can watch here. The opening video shows Biden stumbling over his words at the recent presidential debate. […]
What is Project 2025?
In Steve Bannon’s recent interview with David Brooks, Bannon referenced something called Project 2025. What is Project 2025? James Goodwin explains at Boston Review. Here is a taste: The week after taking office in 2017, Donald Trump announced his administration’s […]
Trump’s 3-fold plan to undermine American democracy
Here is Georgetown University public policy professor Donald P. Moynihan at The New York Times: Donald Trump, the former president and current candidate, puts it in apocalyptic terms: “Either the deep state destroys America or we destroy the deep state.” This […]
The Heritage Foundation is leading $22 million project that includes the promotion of Christian nationalism
I have mixed feelings about all the attention Christian nationalism is getting these days. As someone who first used the term back in 2011, well before most of the contemporary commentators, I resist efforts to turn all Christian political activity […]
Ronald Reagan in 1975: “Why don’t we try reverse psychology and make it harder to vote?”
I am reading Rick Perlstein’s Reaganland and was struck by this passage (p.93-94): Look what happened after President Carter, on March 22, sent a letter to Congress recommending a package of electoral reforms. The president was concerned that America ranked […]