Trump Wants to Disavow Project 2025. We Won't Let Him.
This post brought to you by my major crush on Rep. Jasmine Crockett.
Last week, Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett turned a GOP-led House Oversight hearing on its head when she used Republican criticisms of the Biden-Harris administration against them.
"Everything Joe Biden and Kamala Harris has touched has failed," complained House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Kentucky.
“This election is the best example of why y’all are so afraid of diversity, equity and inclusion,” Crockett responded. “Because then you can’t have a simple-minded, underqualified white man somehow end up ascending. Instead, you have to pay attention to the qualified Black woman on the other side.”
Watch the fireworks here.
Crockett, doing an impression of Project 2025 authors said, “It seems like everyone got the memo that, ‘Yes, we are going to double down and say it’s our thing, but we’re going to deny that it’s [Trump’s] thing because we know it doesn’t poll very well with the American people because the American people are woke enough to know there’s nothing good for them in it.”
Crockett began questioning Skye Perryman, CEO of Democracy Forward, a non-profit organization that calls Project 2025 one of the most profound threats to democracy in our country’s history.
Crockett stated that Project 2025 mentions Trump or the “former administration” 312 times, and while I haven’t counted, I have no reason not to believe her. Project 2025 was written with Trump in mind — in order to be successful it needs a ruthless and malicious leader who will lie indiscriminately, flagrantly abuse others, hire his own children into cabinet positions, allow billionaires to ravage our environment for their gain, and dismantle our rights.
So, Trump in a nutshell.
However many times Trump is actually mentioned in Project 2025’s 900+ pages, now that he now knows the American people find Project 2025 revolting. That’s why he’s trying desperately to distance himself from it, while repeatedly casting himself as “the only one who can save the country.”
But as he denies any link to Project 2025, we know members of his own former cabinet authored it.
How toxic is Project 2025?
A new NBC Poll favorability poll showed Project 2025's favorability is at an all time low. Only an abysmal 4 percent of respondents viewed the ‘Mandate for Leadership’ as favorable while 57 percent found it unfavorable (with 51 percent strongly unfavorable!).
The more people learn about Project 2025, the less they like it, which means we have to make sure everyone we know knows about it.
Here’s another poll from earlier this summer — before Project 2025 exploded across the public’s conscience:
Early polling showed that the substance of Project 2025 was widely unlikeable and that if Democrats swiftly and succinctly tied Project 2025’s deeply dangerous policies to the Republican party that is promoting them (either publicly for some candidates or in smoke-filled rooms for others), it could be one of the biggest Republican liabilities in this election.
As we’re talking to friends and family, it’s just as important to share the kind of future we don’t want for our country as it is to paint a picture of what we do want.
Do we want 4.3 million workers to lose their overtime protections?
Do we want tens of thousands of public sector workers to lose their careers and be replaced with Trump sycophants?
Do we want women who need emergency abortions bleeding out in parking lots instead of accessing standard reproductive care?
Do we want LGBTQ+ Americans losing hard-fought civil liberties?
Do we want to lose the progress we’ve made through the American Rescue Plan and the jobs it has added to our communities?
Do we want Kamala Harris’s hopeful, joyful, progressive vision for America, or do we want Trump’s dangerous and regressive Project 2025?
Onward, Democracy Defenders!
She is the one of the best from Texas and we adore her!
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