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Trump is now trying to downplay Project 2025 (www.salon.com)

submitted 7 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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Project 2025 (and its auxiliary Trump’s “Agenda 47”) are a plan by right-wing extremists and other authoritarians to end America’s multiracial democracy and to replace it with a White Christian nationalist plutocracy.

A conspiracy is a plan by two or more people operating in private to advance their interests and goals above those of some other person(s) — or in this context the American people. Project 2025 is not a conspiracy. These plans are exhaustively detailed in a book titled “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” and are regularly discussed at conferences, in interviews, and in other public forums. Project 2025 and its related plans, like Agenda 47, were not hatched overnight. As author and journalist Anne Nelson and other experts have been extensively documenting, Project 2025 and the other right-wing extremists’ and neofascists' plans to end America’s multiracial democracy have been years and decades in development

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 81 points 7 months ago

Just because they have shitty opsec doesn’t mean it’s not a conspiracy.

The full details aren’t public.

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 69 points 7 months ago

The number of people discussing the election that don’t know about project 2025 is disturbing

[-] Sakychu@lemmy.world 61 points 7 months ago

Both sides... Right?

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

a plan by right-wing extremists

I don't think the word "extremist" is appropriate when the overwhelming majority of conservatives support it. Project 2025 is just what regular conservatives plan to do to oppress and eradicate the normal people.

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 9 points 7 months ago

Here in Germany we learn that extremists are people with opinions that go against the system, trying to overthrow the system. By that definitions they are extremists, I think?

[-] AntonAmo@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago

Actually the definition is more nuanced. A radical (from latin radix = root) is someone who wants to change the political system from its core by using legal procedures like elections. An extremist is someone who despite being in a minority trys to overthrow the system in violent terms. So depending on Trump's win or a mop running in the capitol and declaring Trump the winner, they are either radicals or extremist.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

By that definition, I agree.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

By the way, The Heritage foundation has a "Project " document pretty regularly, so these ideas aren't going away and aren't dependant on a particular candidate... They're well funded and backed by the think tank.

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