Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump's vision

[kpete]

WASHINGTON (AP) — With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump, recruiting thousands of Americans to come to Washington on a mission to dismantle the federal government and replace it with a vision closer to his own.

Led by the long-established Heritage Foundation think tank and fueled by former Trump administration officials, the far-reaching effort is essentially a government-in-waiting for the former president’s return — or any candidate who aligns with their ideals and can defeat President Joe Biden in 2024.

With a nearly 1,000-page “Project 2025” handbook and an “army” of Americans, the idea is to have the civic infrastructure in place on Day One to commandeer, reshape and do away with what Republicans deride as the “deep state” bureaucracy, in part by firing as many as 50,000 federal workers.


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[tanyev]

1. Trump's vision or the Heritage Foundation's vision?

I guarantee that the only thing Trump’s vision consists of is “I can do whatever I want and take whatever I want”.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Trump's vision is only ME ME ME.

[LuvLoogie]

6. That is the Heritage Foundation m.o. in a nutshell.

Seriously

[Irish_Dem]

2. The GOP is like Putin, they won't be happy until the world is a pile of rubble.

And they can feel so smart and powerful for destroying all of it.

[elleng]

3. *The goal is to avoid the pitfalls of Trump's first years in office,

when the Republican president’s team was ill-prepared, his Cabinet nominees had trouble winning Senate confirmation and policies were met with resistance — by lawmakers, government workers and even Trump’s own appointees who refused to bend or break protocol, or in some cases violate laws, to achieve his goals.

While many of the Project 2025 proposals are inspired by Trump, they are being echoed by GOP rivals Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy and are gaining prominence among other Republicans.

And if Trump wins a second term, the work from the Heritage coalition ensures the president will have the personnel to carry forward his unfinished White House business.

“The president Day One will be a wrecking ball for the administrative state,” said Russ Vought, a former Trump administration official involved in the effort who is now president at the conservative Center for Renewing America.'

[Chainfire]

5. Indeed, it appears that the Republican Party is planning a "final solution."

The major power structures in this nation are business and government and to a lesser extent religion. Religion is not too big a problem because there are so many of them and they are too damn dumb to come together. The Republicans want to transfer power from government to business, and the cost to society be damned. Victory for Republicans would look like a Corporatocracy with a figurehead dictator. All the rest of us just need to shut up and go to work for subsistence wages and be damn thankful for that.