{"id":14594,"date":"2024-09-02T13:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T13:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14594"},"modified":"2024-09-02T13:08:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T13:08:03","slug":"j-d-vance-has-made-it-impossible-for-trump-to-run-away-from-project-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14594","title":{"rendered":"J.D. Vance has made it impossible for Trump to run away from Project 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Former President Donald Trump has lately been trying to distance himself from Project 2025<\/a>, claiming it was cooked up by the \u201csevere right<\/a>\u201d and that he doesn\u2019t know anything about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it turns out the severe right is coming from inside the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kevin Roberts, the self-proclaimed \u201chead\u201d of Project 2025, has a book coming out in September \u2014 and the book\u2019s foreword is written by Trump\u2019s vice presidential candidate, J.D. Vance, who lavishly praises its ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNever before has a figure with Roberts\u2019s depth and stature within the American Right tried to articulate a genuinely new future for conservatism,\u201d Vance writes, according to the book\u2019s Amazon page<\/a>. \u201cWe are now all realizing that it\u2019s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What ideas? Like Vance<\/a>, Roberts is obsessed with the idea that the left controls major American institutions \u2014 he lists Ivy League colleges, the FBI, the New York Times, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Department of Education and even the Boy Scouts of America<\/a>. The book argues that \u201cconservatives need to burn down\u201d these institutions if \u201cwe\u2019re to preserve the American way of life.\u201d (Vox has requested a copy of the book, but has not yet received one at the time of this writing.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously, this poses a problem for Trump\u2019s attempts to distance himself from the virally unpopular Project 2025 and its lengthy agenda for what he should do if he wins, which includes proposals to restrict abortion access and centralize executive power in the presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s one more indication that Trump\u2019s pick of Vance might be politically problematic<\/a> for him. Vance has a fascination<\/a> with provocative and extreme far-right thinkers, and a history of praising their ideas. He is not a running mate tailored to win over swing voters who are concerned Trump might be too extreme \u2014 quite the opposite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book was written and announced before Vance was chosen as Trump\u2019s running mate. But there\u2019s some indication that people involved had some late second thoughts about it. It was originally announced<\/a> as \u201cDawn\u2019s Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save America,\u201d with a cover image showing a match over the word \u201cWashington.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More recently, though, the subtitle has been changed<\/a> to \u201cTaking Back Washington to Save America,\u201d and the match has vanished from the cover.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Project 2025 contains a multitude of proposals in its 922-page plan, not all of which J.D. Vance necessarily supports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he\u2019s on record backing ideas similar to those put forth in two of Project 2025\u2019s most controversial issue areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first is abortion. Project 2025 lays out a sweeping agenda<\/a> by which the next president could use federal power to prevent abortions, including using an old law called the Comstock Act to prosecute people who mail abortion pills, and working to prevent women from abortion-banning states from traveling out of state to get abortions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance is on record supporting these ideas. Last year, he signed<\/a> a letter demanding that the Justice Department prosecute physicians and pharmacists \u201cwho break the Federal mail-order abortion laws.\u201d In 2022, he said he was \u201csympathetic\u201d to the idea that the federal government should stop<\/a> efforts to help women traveling out of their states to get abortions. That year, he also said<\/a>: \u201cI certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At other points, Vance has struck a different tone. \u201c\u201cWe have to accept that people do not want blanket abortion bans,\u201d he said last December<\/a>. And this month he said<\/a> he supported a Supreme Court decision that allowed the abortion bill mifepristone to remain available. Here, Vance is trying to align with Trump, who \u2014 fearing political blowback \u2014 argues he merely wants abortion to be a state issue, despite his long alliance with the religious right. But Vance\u2019s record implies his true agenda might be otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second controversial area where Vance is sympatico with Project 2025 is centralizing presidential power over the executive branch. The project lays out various proposals to rein in what conservatives view as an out-of-control \u201cdeep state\u201d bureaucracy \u2014 mainly, by firing far more career civil servants and installing far more political appointees throughout the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance, as I wrote last week,<\/a> has backed a maximalist version of this agenda. In 2021, Vance said<\/a> that in Trump\u2019s second term, Trump should \u201cfire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.\u201d The courts would try to stop this, Vance continued, and Trump should then \u201cstand before the country like Andrew Jackson did, and say, \u2018The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it\u2019s no big surprise that Vance would write the foreword for a book by Project 2025\u2019s architect. They fundamentally agree on how they see the world, and in much of what they want out of politics: a battle against the left for control of institutions, and expanded government power to stop abortions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/362917\/jd-vance-project-2025-book-kevin-roberts-trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Former President Donald Trump has lately been trying to distance himself from Project 2025, claiming it was cooked up by the \u201csevere right\u201d and that he doesn\u2019t know anything about it.
\nBut it turns out the severe right is coming from inside the house.<\/p>\n

Kevin Roberts, the self-proclaimed \u201chead\u201d of Project 2025, has a book coming out in September \u2014 and the book\u2019s foreword is written by Trump\u2019s vice presidential candidate, J.D. Vance, who lavishly praises its ideas.<\/p>\n

\u201cNever before has a figure with Roberts\u2019s depth and stature within the American Right tried to articulate a genuinely new future for conservatism,\u201d Vance writes, according to the book\u2019s Amazon page. \u201cWe are now all realizing that it\u2019s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n

What ideas? Like Vance, Roberts is obsessed with the idea that the left controls major American institutions \u2014 he lists Ivy League colleges, the FBI, the New York Times, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Department of Education and even the Boy Scouts of America. The book argues that \u201cconservatives need to burn down\u201d these institutions if \u201cwe\u2019re to preserve the American way of life.\u201d (Vox has requested a copy of the book, but has not yet received one at the time of this writing.)<\/p>\n

Obviously, this poses a problem for Trump\u2019s attempts to distance himself from the virally unpopular Project 2025 and its lengthy agenda for what he should do if he wins, which includes proposals to restrict abortion access and centralize executive power in the presidency.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s one more indication that Trump\u2019s pick of Vance might be politically problematic for him. Vance has a fascination with provocative and extreme far-right thinkers, and a history of praising their ideas. He is not a running mate tailored to win over swing voters who are concerned Trump might be too extreme \u2014 quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

The book was written and announced before Vance was chosen as Trump\u2019s running mate. But there\u2019s some indication that people involved had some late second thoughts about it. It was originally announced as \u201cDawn\u2019s Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save America,\u201d with a cover image showing a match over the word \u201cWashington.\u201d<\/p>\n

More recently, though, the subtitle has been changed to \u201cTaking Back Washington to Save America,\u201d and the match has vanished from the cover.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Project 2025 contains a multitude of proposals in its 922-page plan, not all of which J.D. Vance necessarily supports.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s on record backing ideas similar to those put forth in two of Project 2025\u2019s most controversial issue areas.<\/p>\n

The first is abortion. Project 2025 lays out a sweeping agenda by which the next president could use federal power to prevent abortions, including using an old law called the Comstock Act to prosecute people who mail abortion pills, and working to prevent women from abortion-banning states from traveling out of state to get abortions.<\/p>\n

Vance is on record supporting these ideas. Last year, he signed a letter demanding that the Justice Department prosecute physicians and pharmacists \u201cwho break the Federal mail-order abortion laws.\u201d In 2022, he said he was \u201csympathetic\u201d to the idea that the federal government should stop efforts to help women traveling out of their states to get abortions. That year, he also said: \u201cI certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally.\u201d<\/p>\n

At other points, Vance has struck a different tone. \u201c\u201cWe have to accept that people do not want blanket abortion bans,\u201d he said last December. And this month he said he supported a Supreme Court decision that allowed the abortion bill mifepristone to remain available. Here, Vance is trying to align with Trump, who \u2014 fearing political blowback \u2014 argues he merely wants abortion to be a state issue, despite his long alliance with the religious right. But Vance\u2019s record implies his true agenda might be otherwise.<\/p>\n

The second controversial area where Vance is sympatico with Project 2025 is centralizing presidential power over the executive branch. The project lays out various proposals to rein in what conservatives view as an out-of-control \u201cdeep state\u201d bureaucracy \u2014 mainly, by firing far more career civil servants and installing far more political appointees throughout the government.<\/p>\n

Vance, as I wrote last week, has backed a maximalist version of this agenda. In 2021, Vance said that in Trump\u2019s second term, Trump should \u201cfire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.\u201d The courts would try to stop this, Vance continued, and Trump should then \u201cstand before the country like Andrew Jackson did, and say, \u2018The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s no big surprise that Vance would write the foreword for a book by Project 2025\u2019s architect. They fundamentally agree on how they see the world, and in much of what they want out of politics: a battle against the left for control of institutions, and expanded government power to stop abortions.”<\/p>\n

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