Rise against fascism by:
Daniel Martinez HoSang is Professor of American Studies at Yale and a Race and Democracy Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming volume The Politics of the Multiracial Right
Here is what will happen on day one of Trump’s presidency, according to Project 2025 -The Guardian
The coldest ever
It’s a cold day in Washington DC in late January 2025.
During the campaign, Trump offered some symbolic gestures to distance himself from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation-led policy blueprint for the next Republican administration, matched with a database of conservative personnel to execute those plans. “Personnel is politics,” they explain.
But with Republicans now holding bare majorities in both chambers of Congress, the gloves come off. As Trump utters the last phrase of the oath of office – “so help me God” – the first phase of what Project 2025’s authors call “the playbook” begins.
First comes the Skidmark’s favorite bit
First come the firings. Thousands of federal, non-partisan civil servants –environmental and food safety regulators; authorities in disaster relief coordination; attorneys overseeing anti-discrimination policies in housing, education and employment; medical and scientific researchers – receive immediate layoff notices. Many will not be replaced, as entire federal programs and agencies are shuttered. The new personnel that do arrive come from conservative thinktanks, or are rightwing activists who applied through the Project 2025 application database. Political cronyism is now the official hiring policy of the US federal government.
then the revenge
Next come the roundups. As drafted by the Maga nativist-in-chief Stephen Miller, a broad range of law enforcement, from the national guard to state and local police are deputized for a new deportation army. Sweeps of neighborhoods and businesses take aim at blue states and cities, but general terror is their intended goal. Detention centers are established on military bases and federal facilities with quick access to airfields to execute mass removals. Nearly a million lawfully present immigrants are stripped of their legal protections, subjecting them to immediate deportation. An end to Daca and a return of the Muslim ban follow.
* As usual I suggest reading the whole piece.
Project 2025 scares me and I am an expat.
The Professor shares the view of many on D-Kos
NB:
The Billionaires [i.e.Leon Umsk] want Project 2025
That is why the Skidmark has shifted his position.
The 2025 Playbook -Forbes
Topline
Democrats have repeatedly assailed Project 2025 at the Democratic National Convention, attacking its far-right 900-page policy agenda compiled by right-wing groups, but the conservative project is also working on a detailed policy playbook for the first 180 days of a potential Trump administration—and unlike the policy agenda that Democrats have hauled onto the convention stage, the public is unlikely to ever find out what it says.
Unlike Project 2025’s initial policy agenda, however, that playbook has not been publicly released yet, and secretly recorded footage released in mid-August by the Centre for Climate Reporting—in which undercover journalists posing as potential donors spoke directly with Project 2025 authors—underscores that’s by design.
When Forbes gets worried, so should we all.
A Muse
~A
PS I wonder what Leon Umsk will have to pay Trump for the US?
