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"In April 2022, conservative American think tank the Heritage Foundation,
working with a broad coalition of 50 conservative organisations, launched
Project 2025: a plan for the next conservative president of the United States.
The Project’s flagship publication,
Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative
Promise, outlines in plain language and in granular detail, over 900-plus
pages, what a second Trump administration (if it occurs) might look like. I’ve
read it all, so you don’t have to.
The
Mandate’s veneer of exhausting technocratic detail, focused mostly on the
federal bureaucracy, sits easily alongside a Trumpian project of revenge and
retribution. It is the substance behind the showmanship of the Trump rallies.
Developing transition plans for a presidential candidate is normal practice in
the US. What is
not normal about Project 2025, with its intertwined domestic
and international agenda, are the plans themselves. Those for climate and the
global environment, defence and security, the global economic system and the
institutions of American democracy more broadly aim for nothing less than the
total dismantling and restructure of both American life and the world as we
know it.
The unapologetic agenda, according to Heritage Foundation president Kevin D.
Roberts, is to “defeat the anti-American left – at home and abroad.”
Recommendations include completely abolishing the US Federal Reserve in favour
of a system of “free banking”, the total reversal of all the Biden
administration’s climate policies, a dramatic increase in fossil fuel
extraction and use, ending economic engagement with China, expanding the
nuclear arsenal and a “comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of U.S.
participation in
all international organizations” including the UN and its
agencies. And that’s not all."
Note that this is a very radical worldview: they plan to deal with “a world on
fire”, and start by first setting the world on fire.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
