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Many of us pointed out it was the playbook for trump 2.0. Don claimed he knew nothing about it. It's a line he uses quite often when he wants to deny his obvious affiliation with something. Like the search of Bolton's home.
Project 2025 indulges every fantasy of Trump’s cabinet members, a coterie of private fund investors and business founders with preferential ties to the fossil fuel industry, real estate, and Silicon Valley. The manual shows how the president could open up federal lands to fossil fuel prospectors and actively obstruct any progress on climate change mitigation. It shows how the Federal Reserve could abandon its function as lender of last resort and allow for a return to free banking, with gold or some other commodity equivalent (perhaps cryptocurrency) acting as backstops to privately issued money. And it shows how the Department of Housing and Urban Development could sell off the country’s remaining public housing stock and withhold support from low-income borrowers. Meanwhile, the president is urged to dissolve the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the independent government agency charged with preventing bank runs) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the agency that recently extended anti-fraud regulation to the digital finance sector). Project 2025 represents the apotheosis of the antisocial state: a state form that has withdrawn from the task of social insurance and placed its entire administrative apparatus in the hands of a small group of uber-wealthy business partners.
www.dissentmagazine.org
The nihilist known as Steve Bannon (and Putin) must have goose bumps watching his dream of America's bedrock institutions getting torn down come to fruition. Hopefully watchers of DWTS will wake from their slumber before it's too late.
Trump’s Antisocial State
Just a few months in, any doubts about the tenor of Trump’s second presidency have been dispelled. The Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise by Project 2025 has produced a much more focused Trump than we saw the first time around. It has found a way to convert the president’s flare ups into a constant source of energy and to arrange his thought bubbles into a sequential narrative. Project 2025, as the report has come to be known, contains a plan for reconstructing the American state from the ground up. To get there, however, it first has to overcome obstacles created by the existing state and its workforce of civil servants. One refrain beats consistently throughout: abolish the administrative state. The report whispers in the president’s ear at every turn, explaining how he can use executive power to “fire supposedly ‘un-fireable’ federal bureaucrats; shutter wasteful and corrupt bureaus and offices; muzzle woke propaganda at every level of government; restore the American people’s constitutional authority over the Administrative State; and save untold taxpayer dollars in the process.”Project 2025 indulges every fantasy of Trump’s cabinet members, a coterie of private fund investors and business founders with preferential ties to the fossil fuel industry, real estate, and Silicon Valley. The manual shows how the president could open up federal lands to fossil fuel prospectors and actively obstruct any progress on climate change mitigation. It shows how the Federal Reserve could abandon its function as lender of last resort and allow for a return to free banking, with gold or some other commodity equivalent (perhaps cryptocurrency) acting as backstops to privately issued money. And it shows how the Department of Housing and Urban Development could sell off the country’s remaining public housing stock and withhold support from low-income borrowers. Meanwhile, the president is urged to dissolve the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the independent government agency charged with preventing bank runs) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the agency that recently extended anti-fraud regulation to the digital finance sector). Project 2025 represents the apotheosis of the antisocial state: a state form that has withdrawn from the task of social insurance and placed its entire administrative apparatus in the hands of a small group of uber-wealthy business partners.
Trump’s Antisocial State - Dissent Magazine
The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.
The nihilist known as Steve Bannon (and Putin) must have goose bumps watching his dream of America's bedrock institutions getting torn down come to fruition. Hopefully watchers of DWTS will wake from their slumber before it's too late.
