I don't get it when people point out that Project 2025 is "nothing new." Yes, obviously, right-wingers have been fanatics for decades. They were blowing up abortion clinics and shooting doctors when I was a kid. But, as you may have noticed, their political vision has kind of been coming together.
in this case it's also wrong. P2025 might be directionally similar to stuff in the past, but a lot of it is genuinely unprecedented in modern US history
that's part of what is so fucking frustrating about all of this
what is being proposed is an extremely dramatic change in the way most people have ever experienced this country in their lives
that seems important!
Didn’t one of them literally say they wanted to rewind the 20th century or something close to that? I mean how can any sane person hear that and be like “meh can’t be bothered to care”
several have said they want to "undo the new deal" which is sort of along the same lines. I think folks underestimate the ambition of P2025 or how severely or rapidly it intends to change (in very, very negative ways), the relationship between US citizens and the government
essentially it moves the federal government from a mostly neutral hands-off coordinating actor between the states into being an authoritarian ideologue imposing its view domestically, and crushing dissent. Which is just to say, it intends to impose its fascism by force across the several states.
the important distinction is that they won't merely hold objectionable views and keep those views to themselves, or just take actions within the ordinary perimeter of constitutional governance that supports it. It's not a plan for rightwing government. It's a plan for police-state fascist control.
they have no intention of letting blue states, or blue parts of red states, govern themselves
you will do what they want and prosecute the people they want or you will be removed from power and quite possibly prosecuted yourself
This already happens in Texas.
When one of the blue cities or counties passes a law the GOP hates, the state leg will hold an emergency session and pass a law over ruling it.
Things the GOP hates:
Sick Pay
Access to voting sites
Water breaks
I try to remind people that this is already happening in Texas. Just in Harris County alone there has been an attempted takeover of elections.
And an attempt to take over the public school system there & convert it to a voucher program that allows religious schools and homeschooling is succeeding.
Already working hard at exactly that in the red states!
Reporters who want to do their real jobs...take a UNIFIED look at TX, LA!, FL, NC, TN and more to see it in action...then amplify to feds w SCOTUS, CiC, DOJ, Homeland, all levers shoved past breaking point by racist theocrats and billionaires.
