Hello Marv: Re Project 2025:
Maybe we did not do an extremely deep dive as warranted- but we did refer to this in adequate detail i think. Enough to place it into the required context at least twice. First Shortly after the 5 November 2024. (see (i) below); & second far more recent this week. (i) 5 November 2024 - at at: https://mlrg.online/politics/hovering-on-the-brink-of-fascism-what-happened-in-the-november-5th-2024-usa-elections/ "Many of the incoming Trump appointees to both cabinet and his personal advisors have links to the infamous Project 2025: “Trump ran away from Project 2025 during the campaign because it was so unpopular. He denied he knew anything about it, calling it “ridiculous and abysmal,” and on September 16 the leader of Trump’s transition team, Howard Lutnick, said there were “Absolutely zero. No connection. Zero” ties between the team and Project 2025. Now, though, Trump has done an about-face and has said he will nominate at least five people associated with Project 2025 to his administration. Those nominees include Russell Vought, one of the project’s key authors, who calls for dramatically increasing the powers of the president; Tom Homan, who as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) oversaw the separation of children from their parents; John Ratcliffe, whom the Senate refused in 2019 to confirm as Director of National Intelligence because he had no experience in intelligence; Brendan Carr, whom Trump wants to put at the head of the Federal Communications Commission and who is already trying to silence critics by warning he will punish broadcasters who Trump feels have been unfair to him; and Stephen Miller, the fervently anti-immigrant ideologue. Project 2025 calls for the creation of an extraordinarily strong president who will gut the civil service and replace its nonpartisan officials with those who are loyal to the president. It calls for filling the military and the Department of Justice with those loyal to the president. And then, the project plans that with his new power, the president will impose Christian nationalism on the United States of America, ending immigration, and curtailing rights for LGBTQ+ individuals as well as women and racial and ethnic minorities.” Heather Cox Richardson, “Letters of an American”; November 24, 2024 Posted Nov 25, 2024 Trump while disavowing knowledge of Project 2025 during the campaign, now openly embraces it. Some of the details of this “Project 2025” are given below: “Mr. Trump’s cabinet picks and other appointments have reaffirmed the fears of many Democrats and government watchdogs who say Mr. Trump will use Project 2025 as a road map to expand his executive power, replace civil servants with political loyalists and gut government agencies like the Department of Education. Mr. Trump has picked Russel V. Vought one of the authors of Project 2025, to lead the powerful Office of Management and Budget. In choosing Mr. Vought, Mr. Trump will have someone who views the position as far more expansive than just overseeing the budget. Mr. Vought wrote in Project 2025 that the person picked for the job should view themselves as an “approximation of the president’s mind,” while establishing a reputation of the keeper of “commander’s intent.”… Earlier this year, Mr. Trump tried to distance himself from his former staffers like Mr. Vought,.. “I have no idea who is behind it,” Mr. Trump said on social media in July, despite his ties to former staffers like Mr. Vought. . . Mr. Trump has also tapped Stephen Miller to be his deputy chief of staff for policy and Thomas Homan to be a “border czar,” positions that do not require Senate confirmation. Mr. Homan is listed as a contributor to Project 2025. The legal organization Mr. Miller founded during Mr. Trump’s time out of office, America First Legal, was listed at one point as an adviser group to Project 2025. .. Both officials will be responsible for elements of Mr. Trump’s goals of establishing detention camps and carrying out mass deportations. The Project 2025 blueprint also recommends rescinding restrictions that prevented immigration agents from carrying out arrests in schools and churches. Mr. Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, wrote a chapter in Project 2025 that called for reining in “Big Tech,” eliminating immunity protections for social media companies and imposing transparency rules on companies like Google, Facebook and YouTube. “It is hard to imagine another industry in which a greater gap exists between power and accountability,” he wrote. Other contributors to Project 2025 include Pete Hoekstra, Mr. Trump’s former ambassador to the Netherlands and his current pick to be ambassador to Canada, as well as John Ratcliffe Mr. Trump’s pick to lead the C.I.A. A former director of national intelligence, Mr. Ratcliffe was cited repeatedly in the document.“ Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Erica L. Green “Trump Disavowed Project 2025 During the Campaign. Not Anymore.”NYT 29 November 2024 The following listing is admittedly depressing to read through. It simply documents the Cabinet. It can easily be skipped for those already familiar with this sorry listing. (In which case the reader might turn to the final section, on question posed as to whether the USA can be considered a fascist state now)….” >From Hovering on the Brink of Fascism: What Happened in the November 5th 2024 >USA Elections?”….. (ii) 19 July 2026; " (ii) More recently: 19 July 2026; at: http://mlrg.online/current-events/bonapartism-and-trump-a-reply-to-anthony-teso/ "Those who charge us of ‘conspiracy theory’ give insufficient weight to the cunning and indeed – the intelligence – of the ruling class. These accusers generally dismiss this as a poor counter-argument. We suggest that they re-read Marx’s “Class Struggles in France”, to see the prior scale of contortions the bourgeoisie make to fool workers. Why do they think that such pre-planning does not occur now? The deviousness shown by Trump and the “2025 Project” planners is not new. Marx encountered the same in the concerted and successful efforts to divide the working class from the petty bourgeois and peasants in 1848. He talked of deceptions to fool the petty-bourgeois that the working class was “anti-Republic”….. We do not see the “improvisation of a program…” seen by Teso. What was the Project 2025 all about if not careful pre-planning?: “Project 2025 (also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project) is a political initiative published in April 2023 by the Heritage Foundation with the goal of reshaping the U.S. federal government by consolidating executive power in favor of right-wing policies.” Project 2025; Wikipedia accessed 10 July, 2026…." http://mlrg.online/current-events/bonapartism-and-trump-a-reply-to-anthony-teso/ Cheers H -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. 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