Click the link to read the article on the WyoFile website (Kerry Drake):
July 30, 2024
It’s not enough to be afraid of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a blueprint for Donald Trump’s White House return. Terrified is more like it.
The 900-page treatise spells out a plan to turn the United States into a MAGA paradise. That may sound like ecstasy to many Wyomingites who gave Trump his largest state margin of victory in his 2020 failed reelection bid, but it would crash the federal government beyond repair.
That wouldn’t be a good look for a state whose budget relies so heavily on funding from the federal government, but Wyoming’s dismal fiscal future is not the scariest thing on the horizon if Project 2025 gains traction.
It promotes an agenda that stands the idea of separation of church and state on its head, and rewrites federal laws to follow the guiding principles of Christian Nationalism. It throws democracy under the bus and takes away freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
Project 25 claims it wants to restore “God-given rights,” but its authors don’t mention those rights would only be guaranteed for those who worship the deity that has the federal government’s stamp of approval.
The Heritage Foundation, a far-right “think tank,” has produced similar manifestos since the 1970s. It must have worked overtime to create a controversial new vision of government that is anti-public education, anti-public health, anti-environment, anti-non-Christians, anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigration and anti-federal workers.
What does Project 25 favor in addition to targeting all of the above? Not surprisingly, the plan endorses cutting taxes for the wealthy, matching the primary goal of the first Trump administration. The Heritage Foundation and 100 other right-wing groups that signed on want to finish Trump’s border wall.
Convicted felon Trump backs many of these proposals, including the National Guard and federal agents rounding up and deporting more than 10 million people who aren’t in this country legally. Wyoming residents in favor of kicking out all non-citizens should realize mass deportations will likely include their friends, co-workers and even family members.
Project 2025 wants to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education, end federal public school funding and send the money to private and religious school voucher programs. Wyoming’s Legislature already went down this path by creating “education savings accounts.”
Do you want to enroll your child in Head Start? Forget about it, because the program won’t exist.
Trump has gone to absurd lengths to drive his golf cart away from the stench of Project 2025 as fast as he can because so many of its recommendations are extremely unpopular.
Don’t be fooled; he’s in bed with these guys. “This is a great group, and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do,” Trump said at a 2022 Heritage Foundation dinner.
His biggest whopper, though, was this denial: “I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website. “I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”