ASHA RANGAPPA: How the Supreme Court pulled a Jedi mind trick to elect and protect Trump.
@#40 ... The Heritage Foundation ...
OK, let's go there...
The Heritage Foundation
en.wikipedia.org
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The Heritage Foundation, sometimes referred to simply as Heritage,[1][2] is an activist American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1973, it took a leading role in the conservative movement in the 1980s during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage Foundation studies, including its Mandate for Leadership.[4]
The Heritage Foundation has had significant influence in U.S. public policy making, and has historically been ranked among the most influential public policy organizations in the United States.[5 ...
Reagan administration
In January 1981, the Heritage Foundation published Mandate for Leadership, a comprehensive report aimed at reducing the size of the federal government. It provided public policy guidance to the incoming Reagan administration, and included over 2,000 specific policy recommendations on how the Reagan administration could utilize the federal government to advance conservative policies. The report was well received by the White House, and several of its authors went on to take positions in the Reagan administration.[16] Ronald Reagan liked the ideas so much that he gave a copy to each member of his cabinet to review.[17] Among the 2,000 Heritage proposals, approximately 60% of them were implemented or initiated by the end of Reagan's first year in office.[16][18] Reagan later called the Heritage Foundation a "vital force" during his presidency.[17]
The Heritage Foundation was influential in developing and advancing the Reagan Doctrine, a key Reagan administration foreign policy initiative under which the U.S. began providing military and other support to anti-communist resistance movements fighting Soviet-aligned governments in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Nicaragua, and other nations during the final years of the Cold War.[19]
When Reagan met with Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow in the 1980s, The Wall Street Journal later reported, "the Soviet leader offered a complaint: Reagan was influenced by the Heritage Foundation, Washington's conservative think tank. The outfit lent intellectual energy to the Gipper's agenda, including the Reagan Doctrine"the idea that America should support insurgents resisting communist domination."[20] ...
but what kind of backing is it getting?
#38 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER
You can go here for a list of groups who have contributed to the project:
The Project 2025 Advisory Board (page xi)
Authors (page xv)
static.project2025.org
According to the introduction:
Project 2025 is more than 50 (and growing) of the nation's leading conservative organizations joining forces to prepare and seize the day.
@#50 ... If you can show me where Project 2025 is getting even remotely the same kind of traction, I'll pay attention. ...
project 2025
trends.google.com
Look, I get it. After PNAC....but that was written and signed by the biggest power players on the right.
If you can show me where Project 2025 is getting even remotely the same kind of traction, I'll pay attention.
#50 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER
Here is some of Axios original reporting from April 2022 on the topic:
A radical plan for Trump's second termwww.axios.com
No operation of this scale is possible without the machinery to implement it. To that end, Trump has blessed a string of conservative organizations linked to advisers he currently trusts and calls on. Most of these conservative groups host senior figures from the Trump administration on their payroll, including former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
The names are a mix of familiar and new. They include Jeffrey Clark, the controversial lawyer Trump had wanted to install as attorney general in the end days of his presidency. Clark, who advocated a plan to contest the 2020 election results, is now in the crosshairs of the Jan. 6 committee and the FBI. Clark is working at the Center for Renewing America (CRA), the group founded by Russ Vought, the former head of Trump's Office of Management and Budget.
Former Trump administration and transition officials working on personnel, legal or policy projects for a potential 2025 government include names like Vought, Meadows, Stephen Miller, Ed Corrigan, Wesley Denton, Brooke Rollins, James Sherk, Andrew Kloster and Troup Hemenway.
Others, who remain close to Trump and would be in contention for the most senior roles in a second-term administration, include Dan Scavino, John McEntee, Richard Grenell, Kash Patel, Robert O'Brien, David Bernhardt, John Ratcliffe, Peter Navarro and Pam Bondi.
The advocacy groups who have effectively become extensions of the Trump infrastructure include the CRA, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), and the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI).
Other groups--while not formally connected to Trump's operation--have hired key lieutenants and are effectively serving his ends. The Heritage Foundation, the legacy conservative group, has moved closer to Trump under its new president, Kevin Roberts, and is building links to other parts of the "America First" movement.
You can pretend Project 2025 isn't real, but you'll just be fooling yourself, not the rest of us.
Breaking up the dept of education (or eliminating it), overhauling DOJ, cracking down on illegal immigration, replacing civil servants with Trump loyalists and are all things Trump has says he plans to do. He's hedged recently on some social issues like abortion, for example, because he knows a strong anti-abortion stance does not poll well, but he has previously taken full credit for overturn Roe:
www.nationalreview.com
Last year, the Heritage Foundation released Project 2025's mandate for leadership, a roughly 900-page policy book for the next administration to follow. Dozens of conservative policy experts contributed to the book.
The book's policy proposals include plans to break up the Department of Education, overhaul the Justice Department, strongly crack down on illegal immigration, replace longtime federal employees with pro-Trump personnel, and pass a slate of socially conservative legislation.
Trump and his supporters often criticize the perceived disloyalty of Trump's political appointments throughout his first term. The former president's personnel issues last time around formed the basis for Project 2025 to begin preparing ahead of time for another Trump term.
Then how come the right pretends it's irrelevant?
Telling people what's in the recipe may cause them to rethink their purchase.
Was this thing leaked?
There's a website: www.project2025.org
Also, there's a lot of analysis about its impact available.
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