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2025 PROJECT

tommu56

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Forty-four years ago, the United States and the conservative movement were in dire straits. Both had been betrayed by the Washington establishment and were uncertain whom to trust. Both were internally splintered and strategically adrift. Worse still, at that moment of acute vulnerability and division, we found ourselves besieged by existential adversaries, foreign and domestic. The late 1970s were by any measure a historic low point for America and the political coalition dedicated to preserving its unique legacy of human flourishing and freedom. Today, America and the conservative movement are enduring an era of division and danger akin to the late 1970s. Now, as then, our political class has been discredited by wholesale dishonesty and corruption. Look at America under the ruling and cultural elite today: Inflation is ravaging family budgets, drug overdose deaths continue to escalate, and children suffer the toxic normalization of transgenderism with drag queens and pornography invading their school libraries. Overseas, a totalitarian Communist dictatorship in Beijing is engaged in a strategic, cultural, and economic Cold War against America’s interests, values, and people—all while globalist elites in Washington awaken only slowly to that growing threat. Moreover, low-income communities are drowning in addiction and government dependence. Contemporary elites have even repurposed the worst ingredients of 1970s “radical chic” to build the totalitarian cult known today as “The Great Awokening.” And now, as then, the Republican Party seems to have little understanding about what to do. Most alarming of all, the very moral foundations of our society are in peril. Yet students of history will note that, notwithstanding all those challenges, the late 1970s proved to be the moment when the political Right unified itself
and the country and led the United States to historic political, economic, and global victories. The Heritage Foundation is proud to have played a small but pivotal role in that story. It was in early 1979—amid stagflation, gas lines, and the Red Army’s invasion of Afghanistan, the nadir of Jimmy Carter’s days of malaise—that Heritage launched the Mandate for Leadership project. We brought together hundreds of conservative scholars and academics across the conservative movement. Together, this team created a 20-volume, 3,000-page governing handbook containing more than 2,000 conservative policies to reform the federal government and rescue the American people from Washington dysfunction. It was a promise from the conservative movement to the country—confident, specific, and clear. Mandate for Leadership was published in January 1981—the same month Ronald Reagan was sworn into his presidency. By the end of that year, more than 60 percent of its recommendations had become policy—and Reagan was on his way to ending stagflation, reviving American confidence and prosperity, and winning the Cold War. The bad news today is that our political establishment and cultural elite have once again driven America toward decline. The good news is that we know the way out even though the challenges today are not what they were in the 1970s. Conservatives should be confident that we can rescue our kids, reclaim our culture, revive our economy, and defeat the anti-American Left—at home and abroad. We did it before and will do it again.
As Ronald Reagan put it:

Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation[.]1 This is the duty history has put before us and the standard by which our generation of conservatives will be judged. And we should not want it any other way. The legacy of Mandate for Leadership, and indeed of the entire Reagan Revolution, is that if conservatives want to save the country, we need a bold and courageous plan. This book is the first step in that plan.


LINK TO THE PDF
 
For whatever it is worth, Trump has distanced himself from the 2025 Project. He said neither he, nor his campaign are affiliated with the 2025 Project, nor have they been in communications.

I believe either the Hoover Institute or Heritage Foundation (honestly I simply don't remember) are the leaders of the project and dozens of other conservative organizations joined together to create the 2025 Project.

Trump says he agrees with some of it, disagrees with some of it, and finds some of it to be fantasy.

Generally I like the 2025 Project, and hope that at least some of it is incorporated into his administration, however the Democratic Party seems to be using it as a fund raising tool to scare liberals. They are claiming that it is Trumps agenda. They are pushing it hard and Trump is now distancing himself, his platform and the GOP away from the 2025 Project.

Biden, well actually someone with a working braincell, is actually using social media to use the 2025 Project against Trump

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For whatever it is worth, Trump has distanced himself from the 2025 Project. He said neither he, nor his campaign are affiliated with the 2025 Project, nor have they been in communications.

I believe either the Hoover Institute or Heritage Foundation (honestly I simply don't remember) are the leaders of the project and dozens of other conservative organizations joined together to create the 2025 Project.

Trump says he agrees with some of it, disagrees with some of it, and finds some of it to be fantasy.

Generally I like the 2025 Project, and hope that at least some of it is incorporated into his administration, however the Democratic Party seems to be using it as a fund raising tool to scare liberals. They are claiming that it is Trumps agenda. They are pushing it hard and Trump is now distancing himself, his platform and the GOP away from the 2025 Project.

Biden, well actually someone with a working braincell, is actually using social media to use the 2025 Project against Trump

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I support most of what I read but I'm at about 100 pages in to the 900+
it has a good base to go back to local rule theme sofar.
 
I support most of what I read but I'm at about 100 pages in to the 900+
it has a good base to go back to local rule theme sofar.
Generally I am in agreement.

I dug through a decent bit of the document. Mostly agreed with it.

But politically some of it is reasonable to distance from.

Just like Trump softened the GOP position on abortion. That was smart. It follows the same tactic that the Democrats used against guns. Just a little bit. Then a little more. And a tiny bit more. And some common sense more.

Such is it with the Project 2025.

Trump is smart to say it is not his because Democrats will use it agains him. But he came out with his 20 point plan. That is similar, but far less specific. So after he is elected he can then pick up the 900 pages and implement a good bit of it, as he sees fit. But politically smart to stay away, for now. His 20 point plan will satisfy everyone in the center and to the right.
 
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