By Christopher Young,
Contributing Writer,
We are now hearing on a regular basis the words Project 2025. We hear this term from media outlets far and near, on talk-radio and from Presidential campaigns. In the shortest summary, it is a plan for a new Republican administration to adopt on day 1, which these folks believe will be January 20, 2025. Taken straight off The Heritage Foundation website – “Fighting for America’s Future…fighting to save America.” Does that sound familiar? It should, because that is the mantra of Donald Trump, the former president, pathological liar, convicted fraudster, magnet for white law and order conservatives, and wanna-be next president. This is a racist plan for reinventing government.
The Heritage Foundation began in 1973. “Heritage’s mission is to formulate and promote public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.” Going deeper, “It will be on these seven fronts that The Heritage Foundation will make our stand, to: • Empower parents to make education choices, • Secure America’s borders and reduce crime, • Ensure free and fair elections, • Reverse the growth of regulations, spending, and inflation, • Counter the threat of Communist China, • Hold Big Tech accountable, and • Protect unborn life and family formation.”
No one reading The Mississippi Link newspaper will be shocked to know that when you look close at their leadership team of fourteen members, their list of twenty-nine directors, eighteen independent trustees, and eight society of emeritus trustees, there is only one African American, the Honorable Kay Coles James. The Heritage Foundation has sixty-nine people in leadership positions – 98.55% white folks – and they want to change America.
The 920-page Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project has a banner headline, “Building now for a conservative victory through policy, personnel, and training.” At www.project2025.org they say, “It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on Day One of the next conservative Administration.”
The Project “builds off Heritage’s longstanding “Mandate for Leadership,” which has been highly influential for presidential administrations since the Reagan era. Most recently, the Trump administration relied heavily on Heritage’s “Mandate” for policy guidance, embracing nearly two-thirds of Heritage’s proposals within just one year in office.”
Here are just a few examples: In the section on Department of Housing and Urban Development, authored by none other than Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., M.D., starting on page 503, “…HUD programs tend to perpetuate the notion of bureaucratically provided housing as a basic life need and, whether intentionally or not, fail to acknowledge that these public benefits too often have led to intergenerational poverty traps, have implicitly penalized family formation in traditional two-parent marriages, and have discouraged work and income growth, thereby limiting upward mobility. A new conservative Administration will therefore need to: Reset HUD. This effort should specifically include a broad reversal of the Biden Administration’s persistent implementation of corrosive progressive ideologies across the department’s programs. Implement an action plan across both process and people. This plan should include both the immediate redelegation of authority to a cadre of political appointees and the urgent implementation of administrative regulatory actions with respect to HUD policy and program eligibility. Reverse HUD’s mission creep over nearly a century of program implementation dating from the Department’s New Deal forebears. HUD’s new political leadership team will need to reexamine the federal government’s role in housing markets across the nation and consider whether it is time for a ‘reform, reinvention, and renewal’ that transfers Department functions to separate federal agencies, states, and localities.”
Starting on page 545, the section on Department of Justice, authored by Gene Hamilton. In his forward he states, “Unfortunately, the department has lost its way in recent years and has forfeited the trust of large segments of the American people. Large swaths of the department have been captured by an unaccountable bureaucratic managerial class and radical Left ideologues who have embedded themselves throughout its offices and components. The department also suffers from institutional inattentiveness to its core functions…the DOJ has become a department that 46.6 percent of Americans recently indicated is, in their view, “too political, corrupt, and not to be trusted.”
On page 708, under the Department of the Treasury section, they refer to something called The “Equity” Agenda. Here they are putting spin on what we already know does not exist in America. They say, in part, “Under the Biden Administration, the Treasury Department has appointed a Counselor for Racial Equity, established an Advisory Committee on Racial Equity, and created an office for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility. All these should be eliminated. Treasury has created several new offices to promote “equity” and has made this its first of five strategic goals in its Fiscal Year 2022–2226 Strategic Plan. The avowed purpose of these initiatives is to implement policies that deliberately favor some races or ethnicities over others. The casual acceptance and rapid spread of racist policymaking in the federal government must be forcefully opposed and reversed. The next conservative Administration should take affirmative steps to expose and eradicate the practice of critical race theory and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) throughout the Treasury Department.”
There you have it – a whole bunch of smart white folks with a plan to tear down the government if needed in order to preserve their power in what they view as “their country” – that’s Project 2025.
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