Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Project 2025: The good, the bad, and the frustrating

Anyone following the 2024 presidential election has undoubtedly heard about the political establishment's latest villain, Project 2025.

In recent months, Project 2025 has exploded to the forefront of political discourse.

Donald Trump has disavowed Project 2025 and made a point to dismiss it as an irrelevant plan that's unrelated to him and his campaign.

The rift even reportedly caused project head Paul Dans to resign and Trump's team to celebrate the "Demise of Project 2025." Yet the Democrats and much of the media are still conflating the Heritage-led project with Donald Trump in an effort to terrify Americans into voting blue.

Despite how prevalent Project 2025 has become in our political discourse, it's remarkably hard to get trustworthy information about it.

A Project 2025 foreign policy can be boiled down to spending more money to act even more aggressively in the Pacific, Middle East, South America and Eastern Europe under the ahistorical assumption that it will get each of these "Hostile foreign regimes" to calm down.

The policy vision of Project 2025 is much more familiar and moderate than the rhetoric surrounding it would have you expect.

https://mises.org/mises-wire/project-2025-good-bad-and-frustrating 

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