How in the heck can any American live through the traumatic results of Joe Biden’s policies and even consider voting to re-elect him? It’s uncanny to me that there must be people who have struggled to keep their lives together living in Bidenomics and the “dumbing-down” of the middle class who are being crucified simply trying to make ends meet. But there are a bunch of those people still planning to vote Democrat!
I decided to research to see if I could unpack the mindset that would allow any American to forget about our abysmal economy, ignore the criminality across the Nation that has reached all-time highs, and somehow justify the creation of a group of pronouns that few can even explain and then hold honest Americans “guilty” for non-compliance with their demands to use “correct” pronouns. Is it even possible to ignore the weaponization of the Left’s insanity and continue to label people as who they’ve always been?
Maybe they don’t care that Joe Biden has brought us to the brink of war with Russia, China, Iran, and all of Iran’s proxy Muslim extremist groups that are terrorizing the Middle East. They somehow justify the dumbing-down of the electorate when it is time to justify candidates for whom to vote in the upcoming elections. They have forgotten the Rule of Law and the U.S. Constitution and have obliterated the true history of our Nation. They’ve replaced American History with a Leftist-created version of U.S. History they use to denigrate the fathers of this Nation and anyone who acts patriotic.
Joe Biden has normalized racial hatred of anyone with light skin and legitimized gay porn that now saturates the minds of young Americans at public libraries and elementary school workshops. In some places, Biden’s policies have made it a crime to call a biological male a “Man,” a biological female a “Woman,” and demanded boys can use either boy’s or girls’ bathrooms and lockerrooms at schools across the Nation.
This administration has normalized the above and much more in the name of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI), none of which is Constitutional. In fact, it flies in the face of multiple sections of the Bill of Rights!
How did they arrive at these conclusions, which are NOTHING like the United States of America when I grew up?
It wasn’t hard when they discovered they could shun the “truth” and turn it into a weapon to use against people they did not like. How did they do that? By creating two truths: “My truth” and “Your truth.” In that scenario, facts do not matter.
Upon concluding my investigation into how this happened, I stopped when I stumbled upon an article published by “The Nation” that answered every question I’ve had about this craziness. Rather than talk to you about the article, here it is for you to read yourself. It’s titled “Why Trump’s Second Victory Would Be Worse.” (You may need to get a “barf-bag” before reading this.)
This article is part of “Project 2025: The Plot Against America,” a Nation special issue devoted to unpacking the right’s vast and chilling program for a second Trump term. This article appears in the June 2024 issue.
How far might Donald Trump go, if given a second chance? The estimates range from dictatorship to a rerun of his first term, when indolence, ignorance, and incompetence mitigated his menace.
But this time promises to be different—and far worse. Trump’s tempestuous stump performances, which meld vaudeville with venom, provide a clue. He has repeatedly promised to round up and deport millions of immigrants, pardon the January 6 offenders, prosecute his persecutors, impose tariffs on all imports—perhaps higher than 60 percent on goods from China—and “Drill, baby, drill!”
What’s different this time, as this special issue details, is that there is now an organized effort to transform Trump’s resentments and impulses into policy. Trump’s MAGA acolytes have not only dethroned the Republican establishment in Congress and red-state legislatures; they have taken over the party’s think tanks, including the Heritage Foundation, once the bastion of Reagan conservatism.
Now these MAGA operatives are, in the words of Heritage president Kevin D. Roberts, intent on “institutionalizing Trumpism.” The foundation’s Project 2025 includes a 900-page book, Mandate for Leadership, that lays out a Trumpist agenda for every corner of the government; a still-secret 180-day Transition Playbook for the first six months in office; a right-wing version of LinkedIn to recruit and vet candidates for political appointment; and a Presidential Academy to train them.
The essays in this issue describe core aspects of what is more assault than agenda, revealing how Project 2025 turns Trump’s insults and grievances into policy predicates. The result is a chilling guidebook to a second Trump term.
Kim Phillips-Fein outlines how Heritage’s new Mandate is far more extreme than the original 1980 plan that guided Reagan’s administration. An immediate priority, as Chris Lehmann details, will be to bring the permanent bureaucracy to heel. Schedule F—an executive order that Trump released in the last weeks of his presidency—will be revived, empowering the president to turn the civil service into a spoils system, creating 20,000 to 50,000 political appointees instead of the normal 4,000. In his second term, Trump will open not just the White House for business but the entire government. Central to this, as Elie Mystal explains, will be squelching any independence in the Department of Justice while continuing to pack the courts with reactionary partisans.
Once ensconced in office, MAGA operatives will push to turn Trump’s threats into action. In year one, as Gaby Del Valle reports, his poisonous xenophobia will lead to an unprecedented roundup of millions of the undocumented, employing the National Guard and building detention camps as way stations to deportation. Sasha Abramsky reveals how part of Trump’s planned assault on public housing will aim at dispossessing US citizens born to noncitizen parents.
Trump’s embrace of white male privilege and Christian nationalism will be expressed in a “whole of government” offensive against what Roberts calls the “Great Awokening,” the phantom nightmare of a “totalitarian cult” that purportedly has subverted American institutions. All traces of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) programs will be eradicated. All mention of gender will be extirpated. Government support for abortion and birth control (beyond abstinence) will be eliminated, as Joan Walsh discusses.
Another target will be any action on climate change, reflected in the reports of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago meeting with oil executives, in which he offered to push their agenda from day one in exchange for $1 billion for his campaign (and, inescapably, his legal bills). As Bill McKibben notes, Mandate describes in considerable detail the plans to eliminate programs, disembowel bureaus, and end reporting on anything climate-related.
Abroad, China is the new bête noir. As Jake Werner explains, China is blamed for everything from stealing jobs to spreading pandemics and drug addiction, and as William Hartung details, the China threat also propels a massive buildup of an already bloated military.
At home, Project 2025 suggests, Trump will follow the traditional Republican gospel: more tax cuts for corporations and the rich, and more deregulation emasculating the agencies that protect our water, air, food, workplaces, and pocketbooks. Trump’s government will throw a truly bacchanalian orgy for entrenched interests: Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Ag, the military-industrial complex, Wall Street, and more.
As John Nichols describes, delivering this will require Trump and his minions to further undermine American elections and democracy. Trump refuses to accept the results of any election he loses; if elected, his administration will work to make elections come out the right way.
Defeating Trump is necessary—but not sufficient. One realization that emerges from this special issue is how much damage has already been inflicted on our flawed democracy. Unions have been smashed, the floodgates to dark money and political gerrymandering opened wide, the Voting Rights Act gelded. Trump will make the country more corrupt—but Washington is already a lobbyists’ paradise, its culture defined by revolving doors, expense-account excess, and quid pro quo bribery. Trump will make America even more unequal, but billionaires already pay taxes at lower rates than working people. Trump will extinguish any hope of dealing with climate change, but the US is already at peak oil.
Yet a second Trump term promises an assault that will make America much worse—and this time the threat is far more serious. As Trump has said, “When I first got to Washington, I knew very few people.” Now he knows many—and the people he knows are central to Project 2025 and its detailed plans for a second term.
Of course, there will be resistance—in Congress, the bureaucracy, and the press. But we can be certain that if Trump is elected, America will become more corrupt, more xenophobic, more bellicose, less inclusive, less democratic, and less secure. Any hope of addressing the real threats to our security—from climate change to pandemics to inequality and corruption—will be lost.
Are enough Americans so disgruntled and disillusioned as to risk giving Trump the keys to the White House once more? That remains to be seen.
Summary
When I read this story, an emergency bell rang in my head. Now I understand! I cannot fathom what the creators of these hedonistic norms expected as an outcome for those who adopt these mindsets.
Therein lies the foundation of today’s Leftism: “You can do anything you choose (with NO restraints) with any person (or animal) that you prefer with no consequences.” This Leftist manifesto is based on THEIR thoughts, THEIR desires, THEIR facts, and THEIR truths. In their world, truth does NOT live in a vacuum but lies at the feet of any Leftists to use against conservative thinkers to diminish Conservatism while replacing the U.S. Representative Republic with a made-up legal process that is already functioning at about 60 percent.
What’s worse is that it seems NO ONE in this group considers accountability for anything in their lives! These people live on the cusp of destruction of our Nation — in every way.
If you’ve wondered, this article explains how they can hate Donald Trump as much as they do. He is the epitome of a President who, while in office, ultimately returned about 80% of control of the Nation’s structure to “We, the People.”
That’s why they have created many ways to rid the U.S. of a “possible” Trump 47. Narcissism does NOT feed a democracy. It works opposite of the democratic fundamentals perpetually under assault. The political Left is hell-bent on flooding the nation with migrants — without ANY vetting of people who want to come to the United States — with the goal of turning them all into Democrat voters.
Think about this: the mantra of the Left flies in the face of every conservative American who wishes to continue growing the Representative Republic our Founders created for “We the People.” Joe Biden is using his egregious autocratic policies to push the U.S. away from Democracy. The screams that Trump will “destroy our Democracy” are a cover to hide this Biden
If Conservatism loses this election, our Nation will quickly devolve into an also-ran once great country. That will be a new fire (and benign permission) to aggressively invade our independence environment to replace with “Totalitarianism-Lite.”
Why would they do that?
When someone unilaterally holds the keys to the government, it’s not too difficult to control a narrative, manipulate it, and sell it to a generation of “Me-ism-ists” who exist for that singular purpose. This may be our last shot at permanently eliminating this D.C. Swamp and its evil inhabitants.
The Patriots need to be back in charge!
Outright and endless LYING by both mainstream media and Democrat politicians. Unfortunately too many ordinary people don’t focus on politics at all and don’t really give much thought to the current issues.
Why isn’t downright lying by the Media a punishable offence? It really should be… as divisive lies are destroying this Country… What could be more important than that????