It was all written, Trump is just following the plan, step by step...

We've all heard or read about the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025.

As Wikipedia defines it, Project 2025 (also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project) is a political initiative to reshape the federal government of the United States and remove checks on executive power in favor of right-wing policies. The plan was published in April 2023 by the American conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation in anticipation of Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election.

When you open its site, you read :

Project 2025 is a historic movement, brought together by over 100 respected organizations from across the conservative movement, to take down the Deep State and return the government to the people. Its Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, published in April 2023, is a product of more than 400 scholars and policy experts from around the country. The book offers a menu of policy suggestions to meet our country’s deepest challenges and put America back on track, including:

1. Secure the border, finish building the wall, and deport illegal aliens

2. De-weaponize the Federal Government by increasing accountability and oversight of the FBI and DOJ

3. Unleash American energy production to reduce energy prices

4. Cut the growth of government spending to reduce inflation

5. Make federal bureaucrats more accountable to the democratically elected President and Congress

6. Improve education by moving control and funding of education from DC bureaucrats directly to parents and state and local governments

7. Ban biological males from competing in women' s sports

   
   

   It is incredible, that Trump is executing exactly on all these points !

   His announcements in the first three weeks of Trump 2.0 follow all points above (except point 6 so far).

   
   

   A couple of personal reflections on this subject :

   1. Trump has not invented anything, it's all part of a plan that goes beyond his personal convictions. Is he just a puppet on a string?

   2. It's all the more worrying, that there are so well-organized forces behind.

   3. How does Musk fit into this plan? Could it be the "Trump personal card", that makes the whole plan go too far too fast?

   4. Will these forces be able to control Trump? It would be interesting to know how they reacted to this week's plan for transforming the Gaza strip into a huge American development project...?

   
   

   More on the project itself (sources Wikipedia and Project 2025 home page) :

   
   

   The ninth iteration of the Heritage Foundation's Mandate for Leadership series, Project 2025 asserts a controversial interpretation of the unitary executive theory according to which the entire executive branch is under the complete control of the president. To achieve its goals, the project calls for merit-based federal civil service workers to be replaced with people loyal to the president to take partisan control of key government agencies, like the Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Commerce (DOC), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Other agencies, like the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), would be dismantled, and the Department of Education (ED) abolished.

   
   

   Once these measures are in place, the president would be free to implement the agenda, including reducing taxes on corporations and capital gains, instituting a flat income tax on individuals, cutting Medicare and Medicaid, and reversing Biden's policies. Other goals of the project include infusing government and society with conservative Christian values and rejecting abortion as health care. It calls for making the National Institutes of Health (NIH) less independent, stopping it from funding stem cell research, and reducing environmental regulations to favor fossil fuels. It proposes eliminating coverage of emergency contraception and prosecuting people who send and receive contraceptives and abortion pills. It proposes criminalizing pornography, removing legal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs while having the DOJ prosecute anti-white racism instead. The project recommends the arrest, detention, and mass deportation of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. and deploying the military for domestic law enforcement.

   
   

   Proponents of the project argue it would dismantle what they view as a vast, unaccountable, and mostly liberal governmental bureaucracy. Critics have characterized Project 2025 as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan that would steer the U.S. toward autocracy. Legal experts have said it would undermine the rule of law, separation of powers, separation of church and state, and civil liberties.

   
   

   Project 2025 is closely connected to Donald Trump, with many contributors and Heritage Foundation employees associated with him, his 2024 campaign, his first administration, and his allies.Trump campaign officials had regular contact with Project 2025, seeing its goals as aligned with their Agenda 47 program.But amid media scrutiny during the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump distanced himself from it, calling some of its proposals "ridiculous and abysmal". Critics dismissed Trump's denials, pointing to the many people close to him directly involved, the many contributors expected to be appointed to leadership roles during Trump's second presidency, his endorsement of the Heritage Foundation's plans in 2022, and the 300 times Trump is mentioned in the plans.