Project 2025 targets election 2024
Project 2025 targets election 2024
Targeting the voting booth for Trump is a massive operation to return the authoritarian to the White House
By GREGG BARAK
Contributing Writer
PUBLISHED MAY 11, 2024 6:00AM (EDT)
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Salon) In his recent interview with Time magazine, Donald Trump shared a litany of false grievances and real promises should he return to the White House. His promises include, among other things, authoritarian power grabs, administrative cronyism, mass deportations of the undocumented, harassment of women over abortion, trade wars and vengeance brought upon his rivals and enemies.
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Project 2025 is a coalition of 100 organizations under the leadership of the far-right Heritage Foundation with the goal of institutionalizing Trumpism. Last fall the Washington Post wrote: Trump and his allies have begun mapping out specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term; with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute and his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act on the first day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrators.
Authoritarian expert and author of Strongman: Mussolini to the Present Ruth Ben-Ghat describes Project 2025 as a plan for an authoritarian takeover of America that goes by a deceptively neutral name. It brings together all of the ideological strands that supported Trump during his first presidency, and more who have joined the battle since then, such as white Christian nationalists and far-right Catholics who favor the lessening or abolition of the separation of Church and State.
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Rolling Stone claims that Trump and his allies have been working since his 2020 defeat to game the system in his favor ahead of a third run at the White House. These include auditioning lawyers to challenge the 2024 election; working to stop states from using data provided by Electronic Information Center (ERIC) to spot voting irregularities and identify unregistered voters''; and trying to promote a MAGA version of ERIC as some kind of alternative. ................(more)
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