The Evangelicals and ultra-rightwing conservatives are planning a repressive take-over of the country reminiscent of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. We’re talking pure unadulterated misogyny and a totalitarian state. Women will become second-class citizens who are there to serve their husbands, look after the home and churn out babies. Forget education and careers. We’re back into the Taliban territory of the Old Testament.
No contraception, no abortions and a rigid sexual morality straight out of nomadic Arab culture. Like ISIS but more stringent. They’ll make Muslims look positively moderate.
Worse than that they are planning on ousting all moderates and taking over the whole mechanism of democracy, putting their people in charge and removing all checks and balances. They are after setting up an authoritarian regime, controlling the media, using education as a propaganda machine and creating a tyranny that makes Stalin and Mao look amateur.
That’s my definition of a fascist state.
Read it for yourself:
Among its numerous recommendations, it calls for the following (in no particular order):
- Changing how the FBI operates. According to the plan, the agency is “completely out of control,” and the next conservative administration should restore its reputation by stopping investigations that are supposedly “unlawful or contrary to the national interest.” Also, the document calls for legislation that would eliminate term limits for the FBI’s director and require that person to answer to the president.
- Eliminating the Department of Education. The plan explicitly proposes, “Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.” The report also calls for bans on so-called “critical race theory” (CRT) and “gender ideology” lessons in public schools, asking for legislation that would require educators who share such material to register as sex offenders and be imprisoned.
- Defunding the Department of Justice. Additionally, the document proposes prosecuting federal election-related charges as criminal, not civil, cases. Otherwise, the document says, “[Voter] registration fraud and unlawful ballot correction will remain federal election offenses that are never appropriately investigated and prosecuted.”
- Reversing Biden-era policies attempting to reduce climate change. The document’s authors call for increasing the country’s reliance on fossil fuels and withdrawing from efforts to address the climate crisis — such as “offices, programs, and directives designed to advance the Paris Climate Agreement.”
- Stopping cybersecurity efforts to combat mis- and disinformation. The document recommends the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to stop its efforts to curtail online propaganda campaigns, arguing the federal government should not make judgment calls on what’s true and what isn’t.
- Changing immigration policies. Authors want the federal government to deprioritize DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), the program that temporarily delays the deportation of immigrants without documentation who came to the U.S. as children; phase out temporary work-visa programs that allow seasonal employers to hire foreign workers; impose financial punishments on so-called “sanctuary cities” that do not follow federal immigration laws, and divert tax dollars toward security at America’s border with Mexico. (While the Biden campaign claims Project 2025 calls for “ripping mothers away from their children” at the border, there’s no explicit mention of separating families. Rather, it calls for stronger enforcement of laws governing the detainment of immigrants with criminal records and restricting an existing program that tracks people in deportation proceedings instead of incarcerating them. In some cases, those changes could possibly play a role in border control agents detaining a parent while their child continues with immigration proceedings.)
- Restricting access to abortion. The plan wants the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop promoting abortion as health care. Additionally, Project 2025 recommends the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to stop promoting, and approving, requests for manufacturing abortion pills. “Alternative options to abortion, especially adoption, should receive federal and state support,” the document states.
- Removing LGBTQ+ protections. The plan calls for abolishing the Gender Policy Council, a Biden-created department within the White House that aims to “advance equity in government policy for those who face discrimination.” Also, the proposal wants the federal government to remove terms such as “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” from records and policies, as well as rescind policies that prohibit discrimination on the basis of “sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, and sex characteristics.”
- Cutting ties completely with China. For instance, the document advocates for restricting people’s access to TikTok because of its China-based parent company; prohibiting Confucius Institutes, cultural institutions at colleges and universities funded by the Chinese government, and blocking other Chinese entities from partnering with U.S. companies.
- Reversing protections against discrimination in housing. The Biden campaign emails reference a portion of the document that calls for repealing a decades-old policy—strengthened under Biden—that attempts to prevent discrimination and reduce racial disparities in housing. Project 2025 also recommends making it easier to sell off homes used for public housing — a benefit to real estate developers — but result in fewer cheap housing options for poor and low-income families.
Here’s a PDF of the full report:
(www.project2025.org)
Changing Federal Job Classifications
To execute the above-listed objectives, the roughly 1,000-page document calls for a federal government operated by political appointees equipped to “carry out the President’s desires.”
Put another way, Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, said in a July 2023 interview with The New York Times that Project 2025 leaders want to dismantle independent federal agencies that do not answer to the president. Then, they want to fill positions with people who subscribe to conservative politics — including jobs that are currently merit-based hires, not politically appointed.
Under the current system, the federal government’s administrative sector is made up of two employee groups: political appointees and career civil servants. When a new administration takes over the Oval Office, it selects similarly minded people to fill high-ranking positions (political appointees), and those people leave the jobs when a new president takes over. According to the Brookings Institution, a public policy think tank, around 4,000 political appointees run the executive branch.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of positions that run day-to-day operations are hired through a merit-based system — that is, a hiring process that is designed to prioritize applicants’ specialized expertise or experience, not their personal beliefs or affiliations. Those people are career civil servants.
Project 2025 proposes turning up to 50,000 career civil servant jobs into politically appointed positions.
To do that, Project 2025 wants the president to reissue Schedule F, a Trump-era executive order that Biden rescinded when he became president. Generally speaking, the order would recategorize career civil servants into at-will employees, giving higher-level workers the ability to terminate employment for any reason without warning and fill those jobs with new people.
Additionally, Project 2025 recommends revamping the existing appeals process for employee dismissals, arguing the current system prevents managers from firing or hiring the right employees.
The plan also proposes a freeze on hiring top-career civil service positions at the beginning of the administration. By doing so, the plan argues, the new administration will prevent today’s administration’s leaders (later on “outgoing” political appointees) from “burrowing-in”— that is, hiring left-leaning career bureaucrats across federal agencies for the purpose of undermining the next president.
