‘We’ve Been Living As Lab Rats For The Heritage Foundation’: Project 2025 Will Look Like How Florida’s Run
Voters should judge right-wing plan based on the leadership of DeSantis, Democrat says
If you want to know what life would be like in the United States under Donald Trump using Project 2025 as his guide, look no further than Florida under Gov Ron DeSantis.
That’s the advice that chief of Florida’s Democratic Party for Americans.
Organized by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank in Washington DC, interest in Project 2025 has exploded in recent weeks week, as wider news coverage of it has surged.
Coming in at more than 900 pages, Project 2025 is intended to be a blueprint for a new Republican president like Trump to completely reshape the federal government and American life very profoundly, in a short period of time.
This would include sweeping new powers for the presidency, further restrictions on abortion rights as well as initiatives to curtail the rights of LGBTQ Americans, roll back civil rights and environmental protection, as well as abandon any efforts to address global climate change.
Although Trump has personally attempted to distance from the increasingly unpopular Project 2025, it’s been revealed that many of his closest political advisors drafted it and that many of these same allies would be top officials in a second Trump administration.
“The reality is, is when you talk to the people on the ground, you talk to the people — not even just Democrats, you talk to independents — they understand what Project 2025 is,” said Nikki Fried, chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party. “The people in the state of Florida knows what Project 2025 is.
“We’ve been living as lab rats for the Heritage Foundation the last six years under Ron DeSantis,” she added during a TV interview, referring to Florida’s far-right Republican governor, who has targeted LGBTQ rights, the teaching of Black history in schools and more. “When you start talking about the issues and getting off of this other rhetoric, people understand what’s on the line and they’re ready to re-elect Joe Biden.”
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