This week in Project 2025
This week in Project 2025
New polling shows that Project 2025 is super unpopular. Let’s look at why that is!
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This week, I thought we’d revisit Project 2025 and take a quick look at what’s new since the last time I covered it. NBC News is out with a new poll that includes interesting insights into how voters feel about Project 2025. Among the findings:
Only 4% of voters have a positive view of Project 2025.
Only 9% of voters who identify as MAGA Republicans have a positive view of Project 2025.
Project 2025 is the “least popular of all the subjects tested in the September NBC News poll — a battery that included socialism, capitalism, both presidential and vice presidential candidates, the Republican and Democratic parties, Taylor Swift, and Elon Musk.”
Donald Trump continues to try to distance himself and his campaign from Project 2025, but the receipts continue to pile up. At least 140 of his former staffers are involved with it in some capacity, including six former Cabinet members from the Trump Administration. J.D. Vance is fundraising with one Project 2025 booster, and Monica Crowley, a Project 2025 contributor, is assisting him with debate prep. Paul Dans, Project 2025’s former director, was a guest on Steve Bannon’s podcast and spoke to how Trump’s own policies mirror the policies Project 2025 lays out.
Not that the Trump campaign would take my advice, but they should probably make more of an effort to distance themselves from everyone involved with Project 2025. This week, Wired broke the story that John McEntee, a former Trump Administration official and a former senior advisor to Project 2025, was having inappropriate chats with teenagers via a right-wing dating app he founded that made them extremely uncomfortable. Meanwhile, Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation that houses Project 2025, was accused of once killing a neighbor’s dog, a story he’s apparently told multiple people over the years.
Of course, terrible people generally have terrible political ideology, and those with power turn that terrible ideology into terrible policy. This week’s media coverage of Project 2025 includes explainers of its call for a national abortion ban (and using increased presidential power to enact it.), how Project 2025 would politicize the U.S. Census, and how Project 2025 calls to disband the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center. (A thing worth telling anyone who lives in an area affected by climate change, particularly hurricanes.)
Our call to action remains the same: Make sure as many American voters as possible learn about Project 2025, the people behind it, and how it would impact all of us. The more people know about what’s inside Project 2025, the less they like it.
Here are a few resources to help you start to have those conversations with people in your life:
Wall Street Journal explainer. (A good one for your right-wing relatives.)