{"id":15107,"date":"2024-10-22T17:15:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T17:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15107"},"modified":"2024-10-22T17:15:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T17:15:34","slug":"the-big-lie-about-project-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15107","title":{"rendered":"The big lie about Project 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;In reality, Project 2025, an initiative put together last year by the right-wing Heritage Foundation to plan for the next GOP administration, was shaped by longtime&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/2024\/08\/07\/trump-heritage-project-2025-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">close allies<\/a>&nbsp;of Trump. Detailed planning for a second Trump term agenda along these lines is very real, and though the Project 2025 initiative itself has seemingly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/08\/02\/project-2025-trump-inside-story-00172299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fizzled out<\/a>, other&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/20\/us\/politics\/trump-conservative-partnership-institute.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">groups<\/a>&nbsp;have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2024\/07\/22\/inside-the-trump-plan-for-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">picked<\/a>&nbsp;up the slack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, many of Project 2025\u2019s key proposals \u2014 to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/360318\/project-2025-trump-policies-abortion-divorce#:~:text=along%20these%20lines.-,1)%20Concentrating%20power%20in%20the%20presidency,-%3A%20Trump%E2%80%99s%20allies%20believe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">centralize presidential power<\/a>, crack down on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/360318\/project-2025-trump-policies-abortion-divorce#:~:text=surprise%20medical%20billing-,Immigration,-%3A%20Deny%20loan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unauthorized immigrants<\/a>, deprioritize&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/360318\/project-2025-trump-policies-abortion-divorce#:~:text=Energy%20and%20environment%3A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fighting climate change<\/a>, and eliminate the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/20\/politics\/department-of-education-shut-down-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Education<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 are fully and openly supported by Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet Trump\u2019s intentions are less clear on a vitally important issue where Project 2025 made some particularly extreme proposals: abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project\u2019s plan called for using presidential power to aggressively restrict abortions in several ways. Trump, wary of these proposals\u2019 unpopularity, has said during the campaign that he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/08\/20\/trump-comstock-enforcement-00175068\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">won\u2019t support<\/a>&nbsp;some of them. He also evidently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/08\/29\/g-s1-20187\/trump-abortion-amendment-4-florida-ivf-funding-reproductive-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">feels hesitant<\/a>&nbsp;to outright disavow the social conservatives who have long been a key part of his base.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/373485\/project-2025-abortion-ban-trump-comstock-mifepristone\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/373485\/project-2025-abortion-ban-trump-comstock-mifepristone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In reality, Project 2025, an initiative put together last year by the right-wing Heritage Foundation to plan for the next GOP administration, was shaped by longtime close allies of Trump. Detailed planning for a second Trump term agenda along these lines is very real, and though the Project 2025 initiative itself has seemingly fizzled out, other groups have picked up the slack.<br \/>\nFurthermore, many of Project 2025\u2019s key proposals \u2014 to centralize presidential power, crack down on unauthorized immigrants, deprioritize fighting climate change, and eliminate the Department of Education \u2014 are fully and openly supported by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Trump\u2019s intentions are less clear on a vitally important issue where Project 2025 made some particularly extreme proposals: abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s plan called for using presidential power to aggressively restrict abortions in several ways. Trump, wary of these proposals\u2019 unpopularity, has said during the campaign that he won\u2019t support some of them. He also evidently feels hesitant to outright disavow the social conservatives who have long been a key part of his base.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/373485\/project-2025-abortion-ban-trump-comstock-mifepristone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[521,219,221,372,26,25,411,1034,170],"class_list":["post-15107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abortion","tag-conservatives","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration","tag-policy","tag-presidential-power","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15108,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15107\/revisions\/15108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}