In fact, there is every reason to believe exactly the opposite. The guardrails (such as they were) are off and devil take the hindmost!
I just checked again. Seems they’re up to 53 seats in the Senate. They technically haven’t won the House yet, but they only need 4 more seats, and they’re leading in all the outstanding races, with most of the votes counted. It would take a literal miracle at this point for them to lose the House.
So, yeah, barring the case of Republicans actually rebelling against Trump (and who would do that, after this election result?), Trump will have carte blanche to do whatever he wants.
All of them.
Yes I can see it-- National Parks (including the nat’l mall & the memorials), blighted. Library of Congress, Censored. Smithsonian, whitewashed.
Not sure which Project 2025 thread this most belongs in, but this was the most recently updated, so I’ll put it here.
Remember how Trump said he had nothing to do with P2025? No connection at all? Only three of his nominees for top cabinet positions are contributing authors. Phew…what a relief it is only three. Well, there is a 4th under consideration. And yeah, Stephen Miller is loosely associated as well. But beyond that, Donald doesn’t know anything about P2025. Nothing he is interested in.
/s
“I had no idea they worked on P2025!”
“So now that you know, you’ll fire them, right?”
“…”
“You’ll fire them, Right?”
Haha! I know that Star Wars meme.
Anyway, Trump has no clue what Project 2025 is – he just knew it was bad for some reason and pretended to distance himself from it. Another lie that the electorate just ate up.
The way I see it, P2025 is made up of three kinds of things.
- stuff Trump agrees with
- stuff Trump disagrees with
- stuff Trump doesn’t care about.
With regards to 1, of course they’ll do all of that, there will be no disagreements. The P2025 people will get right to work, and will let Trump take all the credit.
With regards to 2, the P2025 people are smart enough to know not to antagonize Trump. They’ll let him have the “win” of shutting this down, safe in the knowledge that they’ll make huge advances on everything else, and can wait for Trump to die to advance these bits.
With regards to 3, if Trump doesn’t care, he won’t care when the P2025 people he’s put in place start doing these things. So long as it doesn’t make Trump look bad, they’ll be given free rein.
You’re giving way too much credit to Trump for caring about policy at all. There’s nothing in there he agrees or disagrees with, it’s all stuff he doesn’t care about.
I’m not saying he’s read the thing, or anything like that. It’s just that it’s inevitable that there will be bits he agrees with, because it touches on just about everything the government does, and Trump has lots of opinions on that stuff. To say he doesn’t have such opinions is to ignore everything he did in his first term. He loves tax cuts, he loves tariffs, and he loves giving orders that make immigrants’ lives harder. In so far as P2025 addresses those issues, I suspect there’s at least some overlap with Trump’s opinions.
Well, this didn’t age so well. He’s added at least one more P2025 author to his potential cabinet. So, roughly at a half dozen. But, he still has no idea what P2025 is and has no interest in it! It is merely coincidence that they are ending up on his list.
I didn’t realize that Pete Hegseth is part of a crazy far right Christian nationalist church, but he is. I posted about it over on the “Trump’s new cabinet” thread. He many not be a P2025 author, but P2025 is all about this crazy religion.
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/23/trump-russ-vought-omb-white-house
P2025 was a series of bookreport/resumes.
What will really be interesting is how well it responds to, you know, everybody else.