After repeatedly claiming that he has “nothing to do with Project 2025,” Trump has signed warp-speed executive orders to effectuate Project 2025. A fever dream of the Heritage Foundation and other right-wing extremists, Project 2025 seeks to advance Trump’s authoritarian vision for America. At full tilt, it would enact tenets of Christianity into law (controlling and punitive tenets of the Old Testament, not the woke stuff about loving your neighbor), accelerate climate change, further marginalize immigrants and the poor, and replace the federal workforce with Trump loyalists.
Project 2025’s unifying theme is the expansion of executive authority, a GOP goal nearly 40 years in the pipes. Through fiat of executive order, Trump is reaching for an unprecedented expansion of his own power, and the Republican majority on the Supreme Court may very well assist.
