AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>I would define the larger Project 2025 discussion that started well before the 2024 US election, as one of the most tragic and frustrating political football matches in the modern history of America. Here, on its face, you have a disturbingly plausible blueprint for installing a Christian nationalist political, social, and economic order on the United States, published by a fundie fascist think tank, and written by no less than 140 people who worked in the first Trump administration, that leaked into the public discourse months before the vote. Everything about Project 2025 was widely publicized, and doing so was probably the most effective part of an otherwise dismal Harris presidential run. Everyone, including Trump's voting based hated it; at its lowest point, the blueprint for a Christian nationalist dictatorship was polling at a 4% approval rating. </p><p>Project 2025 was thus rendered utterly radioactive during the 2024 election campaign and Trump needed a way to distance himself from it as quickly as possible, so he did what he always does: he lied. Downmarket Mussolini claimed he had no affiliation with Project 2025, wasn't planning on implementing it, and indeed didn't even know what was in it. And, perhaps because most Americans instinctively know the Klepto Kaiser ain't exactly a big reader, that worked. Which isn't to say that anyone opposing Trump already was fooled, but it was enough for the cracker Volk to ignore the story and pull the lever for the Klepto Kaiser on election day. </p><p>In fact, the strategy of "just lie your ass off" worked so well, that even as the Trump regime objectively follows the plan to install a Christian nationalist dictatorship in America almost to the letter, the larger administration is *still* choosing to lie about it. During a June 1st interview on CNN, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, who literally co-wrote the part of Project 2025 that transforms fundie fascist objectives into policy, responded to a set up question about whether the Trump regime was openly enacting Project 2025 with "no; of course not."</p><p>Now, you know Russ is lying, and I know Russ is lying, but would you believe the raw statistical data also makes it clear Russ is lying? Of course you would, but let's check out this recent report publish by DeSmog anyway:</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/project-2025-trump-cabinet" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/project-</span><span class="invisible">2025-trump-cabinet</span></a></p><p>Analysis Finds Majority of Trump Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups</p><p>"That's according to an interactive analysis published Monday by the international climate-focused news outlet DeSmog, which found that more than 50 high-level Trump administration officials have ties to groups behind Project 2025.</p><p>That figure includes many of Trump's closest advisers, including Stephen Miller and Elon Musk, who recently stepped down as the de facto head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. It also includes 14 out of 24 Cabinet-level officials, or 70% of the Cabinet.</p><p>"That's a hugely significant finding," Duke University history and public policy professor Nancy MacLean told DeSmog. "In Heritage's own longtime language, 'personnel is policy.' It shows the incredible bad faith of Trump's denials, because this is who he stocked his administration with."</p><p>So without just quoting the rest of Wilkin's article here, the two key points are that Trump's entire administration and his cabinet are littered with people associated with Project 2025 or the fascist think tanks behind it, and virtually everything the Trump administration and the ruling Republican Party have done since the Swine Emperor retook office was and is mapped out in Project 2025. These nazis lying, and we know exactly what Trump is going to do next as he progresses his fascist agenda forward because these muppets literally wrote it down.</p><p>Which of course brings us back to a current American political reality where a CNN host who knows damn well Trump is enacting Project 2025, is still playing pattycake with Russ Vought about it instead of just stating that the regime is obviously following the blueprint the Heritage Foundation laid out. Folks we are talking about printed, easily verifiable evidence of a vast, well-funded, ideological coherent right wing conspiracy in America to install a Christian Nationalist one-party dictatorship in this country; we're definitely well past the point where playing gotcha with Russell Vought on CNN is the correct play here. The reality that the Trumpenreich is a fascist regime in progress is no longer disputable, and if anyone in our establishment is still committed to doing something about that in the really real world the rest of us have to inhabit, it's probably time they started acting like they know what time it is.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Project20205" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project20205</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/RussellVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussellVought</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/HeritageFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeritageFoundation</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CNN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CNN</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a></p>