Misogynist Manifesto: Fighting Project 2025's Plans to Dismantle Democracy as We Know It Pt 3
Misogynist Manifesto: Fighting Project 2025’s Plans to Dismantle Democracy as We Know It Pt 3
PUBLISHED 9/11/2024 by Carrie N. Baker
Project 2025 is a sinister plan to replace nonpartisan civil servants who enforce laws guaranteeing women’s rights, with trained ideologues determined to undermine these rights.
The Heritage Foundation building in Washington, D.C. In 2022, the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and 140 former Trump staffers put together Project 2025, a roadmap for how to replace the rule of law with right-wing ideals. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)
This is the final installment in a three-part series about Project 2025, the extremist blueprint for the next Republican president that maps out the permanent reversal of more than 50 years of hard-fought gains for American women and girls. Part one analyzed the misogynist manifesto’s plans for “biblically based” marriages and rollbacks on reproductive rights. Part two broke down Project 2025’s plans to gut women’s rights in the workplace and the classroom. tackle the right-wing vision to “rip and shred” the federal government and democracy as we know it.
‘Ripping and Shredding’ the Federal Government
Many of the Project 2025 policies attacking women’s equality and reproductive rights, as well as other parts of Project 2025’s policy agenda—including plans to eliminate environmental and labor protections, force immigrants into internment camps and then deport them en masse, deregulate business and expand tax cuts for the wealthy—are deeply unpopular with the American people. According to the research firm Navigator, once they’ve been told about Project 2025, two in three Americans say they’re opposed to it, citing concerns “that it threatens rights and freedoms, that it would hurt middle and working-class families, and that it threatens our democracy.”
Some of these policies have been enacted by Republican presidents in the past and later reversed by Democratic presidents. What makes Project 2025 different is the scheme to make these unpopular policies permanent by replacing nonpartisan civil servants who enforce laws guaranteeing women’s rights with trained ideologues determined to undermine these rights. Laws like Title VII, Title IX and Title X (which funds family planning) will be manipulated to be useless or to function counter to their intended purpose of strengthening women’s rights.
The authors of Project 2025 boast about “how to fire supposedly ‘unfireable’ federal bureaucrats; how to shutter wasteful and corrupt bureaus and offices; how to muzzle woke propaganda at every level of Government.” The plan explicitly seeks to “dismantle the administrative state,” explaining: “The solution… is not to tinker with this or that government program, to replace this or that bureaucrat. These are problems not of technocratic efficiency but of national sovereignty and constitutional governance. We solve them not by trimming and reshaping the leaves but by ripping out the trees—root and branch.”
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U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) summed up the strategy this way: “They plan to centralize all power in the presidency, exercise political control over the Justice Department, implant Christian white nationalism throughout the government, strip tens of thousands of professional government workers of their civil service protections, create an army of political loyalists and sycophants in government, ban abortion nationwide, set up immigrant detention camps, deport millions of people, repeal all climate safety regulations and exact criminal revenge against reporters, judges and Democrats.”
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Meanwhile, in Congress, U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) recently announced the Stop Project 2025 Task Force.
“Project 2025 is more than an idea—it’s a dystopian plot that’s already in motion to dismantle our democratic institutions, abolish checks and balances, chip away at church-state separation and impose a far-right agenda that infringes on basic liberties and violates public will,” Huffman said at the announcement. “This is an unprecedented embrace of extremism, fascism and religious nationalism orchestrated by the radical right and its dark money backers. We need a coordinated strategy to save America and stop this coup before it’s too late.”
https://msmagazine.com/2024/09/11/project-2025-government-democracy-white-house/