Red Caesar / Project 2025 / Agenda 47 / Oligarchy

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Vance (forward to above new book): “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.”
 
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Very informative site on the likely people manning the various topics in proj25, and those rejected.

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Project 2025

The Project 2025 Administration stands ready to execute a set of drastic, feasible, and specific plans that would remake America's federal government, and in turn, American life.
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Free article on Rupar's site -- he does a good job cataloging media coverage that crossed over into fawning editorializing in some cases.
 
I actually think it's highly likely that Trump doesn't really know what's in the Project 2025 mandate (and wasn't consulted about any of it before it was published). There's certainly no chance he would read more than a paragraph or two himself; he hates reading. I also think it's genuinely possible that when he found out or was told some of what was in it he was like "WTF? This isn't going to be popular." But as usual the main danger with Trump isn't really that he wants to implement all of those ideas, but that he can either (1) be convinced to implement many of them by the people around him manipulating him for their benefit - which includes the Project 2025 authors, some of whom were speakers at the RNC - or (2) let them be implemented by the people he appoints because he's too lazy to care about or pay attention to what they're doing. Trump doesn't really want to be the next Hitler - he uses the language of right-wing populism (because it works for him politically) and has authoritarian tendencies (in that he thinks he should be able to do whatever he wants as President without anyone stopping him from doing it) but not any actual right-wing political philosophy or goals - but can absolutely be made into that kind of figure by the Steve Bannons and Stephen Millers and Peter Navarros of the world who will populate and be the real driving policy force behind his administration.
 
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I actually think it's highly likely that Trump doesn't really know what's in the Project 2025 mandate (and wasn't consulted about any of it before it was published). There's certainly no chance he would read more than a paragraph or two himself; he hates reading. I also think it's genuinely possible that when he found out or was told some of what was in it he was like "WTF? This isn't going to be popular." But as usual the main danger with Trump isn't really that he wants to implement all of those ideas, but that he can either (1) be convinced to implement many of them by the people around him manipulating him for their benefit - which includes the Project 2025 authors, some of whom were speakers at the RNC - or (2) let them be implemented by the people he appoints because he's too lazy to care about or pay attention to what they're doing. Trump doesn't really want to be the next Hitler - he uses the language of right-wing populism (because it works for him politically) and has authoritarian tendencies (in that he thinks he should be able to do whatever he wants as President without anyone stopping him from doing it) but not any actual right-wing political philosophy or goals - but can absolutely be made into that kind of figure by the Steve Bannons and Stephen Millers and Peter Navarros of the world who will populate and be the real driving policy force behind his administration.
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I don't disagree -- it would be unlike Trump to even skim something like a 900-page policy tome. But the danger is he doesn't really care what's in it so long as they support him and don't hurt his election chances; then, after he's elected, no doubt he'd give them wide ranging opportunities to implement it so long as they keep flattering him and spend big bucks at his properties.
 

"... If Sen. JD Vance (Ohio), the Republican vice-presidential nominee, were to give Trump “one piece of advice,” he said in 2021, it would be “fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state. Replace them with our people.”

... “President Trump and Sen. JD Vance will take swift and unprecedented action to protect Americans from the out-of-control Deep State, fire rogue bureaucrats and career politicians, and return power back to the American people,” Karoline Leavitt, the Trump’s campaign national press secretary, said by email. She concluded with a Trump quote from a campaign video: “I will shatter the Deep State, and restore government that is controlled by the People.”

... Essentially calling federal employees swamp dwellers and deep state denizens defines Trump’s approach to the workforce. His Agenda47 outlines “my plan to dismantle the deep state and reclaim our democracy from Washington corruption once and for all. … I will immediately reissue my 2020 Executive Order restoring the President’s authority to remove rogue bureaucrats. And I will wield that power very aggressively.”

That controversial order, which was never fully implemented by the Trump administration and then was quickly revoked by President Biden, created “Schedule F,” a federal employment category with “an exception to the competitive hiring rules and examinations for career positions.” For workers in that category, the order also eliminated civil service protections, which allow feds due process procedures to appeal terminations and other disciplinary actions.

“The merit-based, civil service system appears not to align with the … loyalty viewed as necessary to fulfill a second Trump administration agenda,” Marcus L. Hill, president of the Senior Executives Association, said by email. ..."
 
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