Like you, I have heard a *lot* about Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's roadmap for the actions Trump should take if he wins. Given the Heritage Foundation's centrality to the American authoritarian project, it's about as awful and frightening as you might expect:
https://www.project2025.org/
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https://www.project2025.org/
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Project 2025 … and 1921, and 1973, and 1981
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When a wealthy person founds an intergenerational dynasty of wealth and power, this is merely a *hereditary* meritocracy: a *bloodline* infused with God's favor.
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https://twitter.com/fakedansavage/status/1805680183065854083
The constituency for "husbands you can't leave, pregnancies you can't prevent or terminate, politicians you can't vote out of office" is *very* small.
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Take the "libertarian" wing of the GOP: its members *do* favor personal liberty...it's just that they favor low taxes for *them* more than personal liberty *for you*.
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https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/29/jubilance/#tolerable-racism
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https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/09/turkeys-voting-for-christmas/#culture-wars
The right has assembled a lot of power. They did so by maintaining unity among people who have irreconcilable ethics and goals.
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This is quite an improbable coalition, and while I deplore its goals, I can't help but be impressed by its cohesion.
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Which brings me back to Project 2025 and its true significance. As Perlstein writes, Project 2025 is a *mess*.
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For example, Project 2025 calls for defunding government agencies *and* repurposing the *same agencies* to carry out various spectacular atrocities. Both actions are deplorable, but they're also *mutually exclusive*.
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Perlstein says that these conflicts, blank spots and contradictions are the *most* important parts of Project 2025.
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So far, we've lavished attention on the clearest and most emphatic proposals in Project 2025 - for understandable reasons. These are the things *they say they want to do*. It would be reckless to ignore them.
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Perlstein calls on us to dissect Project 2025, to cleave it at its joints. To do so, he says we need to understand its antecedents, like Nixon's "Malek Manual," a roadmap for destroying the lives of civil servants who failed to show sufficient loyalty to Nixon.
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https://www.google.com/books/edition/Final_Report_on_Violations_and_Abuses_of/0dRLO9vzQF0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22organization+of+a+political+personnel+office+and+program%22&pg=PA161&printsec=frontcover
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Final Report on Violations and Abuses of Merit Principles in Federal Employment, Together with Minority Views
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https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374605445/whentheclockbroke
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https://www.patreon.com/posts/when-clock-broke-106803105
Progressives are *also* an uneasy coalition that is easily splintered. As Naomi Klein argues in her essential *Doppelganger*, the liberal-left coalition is inherently unstable and contains the seeds of its own destruction:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not-that-naomi/#if-the-naomi-be-klein-youre-doing-just-fine
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https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/03/utopia-of-rules/#in-triplicate
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https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/20/judicial-equilibria/#pack-the-court
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Fuck it.
This isn't to argue for left seccession from the progressive coalition. As we just saw in France, splitting at this moment is an invitation to literal fascist takeover:
https://jacobin.com/2024/07/melenchon-macron-france-left-winner
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Mélenchon: Macron Is Wrong. France’s Election Had a Winner.
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https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/16/that-boy-aint-right/#dinos-rinos-and-dunnos
What's more, there's a *much* stronger natural coalition that the left can mobilize: workers. Being a worker - that is, paying your bills from *wages*, instead of *profits* - isn't an ideology you can change, it's a *fact*.
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https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/19/make-them-afraid/#fear-is-their-mind-killer
Reviving the role of workers in their unions, and of unions in the Democratic party, is the key to building the in-party power we need to drag the party to *real* solutions.
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The alternative to a worker-led Democratic Party is a Democratic Party run by elites, whose dictates and policies are inescapably illegitimate. As Hamilton Nolan writes, the completely reasonable (and extremely urgent) discussion about Biden's capacity to defeat Trump has been derailed by the Democrats' undemocratic structure.
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https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-hole-at-the-heart-of-the-democratic
Jettisoning Biden because George Clooney (or Nancy Pelosi) told us to is never going to feel legitimate to his supporters in the party.
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The Hole at the Heart of the Democratic Party
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Reviving the labor movement after 40 years of Reaganomic war on workers may sound like a tall order, but we are living through a labor renaissance, and the long-banked embers of labor radicalism are reigniting.
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But workers, organized around their class interests, stand strong. Last week, we lost one of labor's brightest flames. Jane McAlevey, a virtuoso labor organizer and trainer of labor organizers, died of cancer at 57:
https://jacobin.com/2024/07/jane-mcalevey-strategy-organizing-obituary
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Jane McAlevey Demanded We Go Beyond Speaking Truth to Power
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https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/23/a-collective-bargain/
McAlevey helped organize a string of successful strikes, including the 2019 LA teachers' strike.
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Of course, it's harder than it sounds. Every problem that plague every coalition - especially the progressive liberal/left coalition - are present on the shop floor. Some workers don't like each other. Some don't see their interests aligned with others. Some are ornery. Some are convinced that victory is impossible.
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Biden was never my candidate. I supported *three* other candidates ahead of him in 2020.
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I agree w & appreciate Naomi Klein- she ignores history when she says that it’s because the left never goes far enough & that’s why the left fails. It’s because of racism. Funding of Public schools have been attacked because white parents don’t want their kids to go to school w kids of color. Public pools have been filled because: racism.
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Start local. Be patient. Grow a thick skin. Show up.
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Book available from King County, WA, Libraries, or your local, non-Amazon, bookseller.:
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Mélenchon: Macron Is Wrong. France’s Election Had a Winner.
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The #BrExit referendum was won on a policy of “wish-yourself-your-dream BrExit”. The Leave campaigns (notice the plural, there were more than the official one) did not offer specifics, and actually offered different potential models that were in themselves inconsistent. EEA to nodeal everything was on offer.
And then used FB & Cambridge Analytica to target individual voters with their ideal #BrExit
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evangelicals and fundies do not consider catholics to be christian so eventually the christian nationalists will require the catholics to give up catholicism or be destroyed
religion is about power and control and might makes right and leads to endless conflict and suffering
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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-makes-project-2025-so-dangerous
It doesn't matter that the plan is incoherent and ultimately doomed to failure, or that the parties involved hate each other. They can't agree on what they like, but they _can_ agree on what - or rather who - they don't like.
By the time they've finished with the persecutions, there won't be much satisfaction to be had in watching them tear each other apart.
What Makes “Project 2025” So Dangerous
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No Gods , no Masters! RESIST
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