Some sobering-up music
From Jason Statler (LOLGOP) at the I Know How Much You Care substack:
Historian Thomas Zimmer, who puts out the Democracy Americana newsletter and co-hosts the “Is This Democracy” podcast, has been writing and talking extensively about the significance of Project 2025. This week on my earlyworm podcast “How are you feeling about democracy?” he told me the two main goals of Project 2025:
That diagnosis is we were not ready in 2016/17. We didn’t have the plans. We didn’t have the expertise and we didn’t have the personnel. And this must not happen again, right?
The two big lessons they have drawn from this experience is a) we need to have more of this planning operation beforehand. We need to have our plans ready. We need to have the personnel ready. But also b) we need to purge everyone who put the brakes on what we wanted to do the last time around
Thomas and I had a great conversation about how much of this is coming from Trump and how much of this is the GOP establishment trying to define MAGA to make sure they get what they want out of Trump, whose first presidency failed to transform anything but the federal judiciary. That’s a lot! But not enough for the primal forces of nature behind America’s right wing.
You should read Zimmer’s three-part series on Project 2025. And you should also read the Foreword of Project 2025’s report on pages 33-49, as he recommends.
But if you aren’t going to do any of that, just read one sentence of Project 2025. In fact, you already did. It’s the title of this post:
But the Dobbs decision is just the beginning.
I keep hearing Janine Melnitz (Annie Potts) saying, “Yes, of course they’re serious… ”
How serious? Statler adds, “But don’t believe me or Trump. Believe the entire Republican establishment.”
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