PROJECT 2025
The fundamental ideas of Project 2025 – the reduction or disappearance of some government structures to help the most needy classes, the increase in the power of money or the use of tariffs to pressure political agreements, and the reduction of social assistance policies - are the result of the core of conservative thinking of the Heritage Foundation, which has shaped the policies of Republican administrations since the presidency of Ronald Reagan and distances itself from the Christian social doctrine of selfless help to the most needy, such as the work of Mother Teresa or the fraternal spirit of Pope Francis's outing to help the periphery.
Kevin Roberts, director of the Heritage Foundation, sincerely said that "he thought that the American government would adopt a more conservative era." And that is understandable when seeing how the politics of Europe and the world are clearly moving in the same direction.
And Roberts added on the Real America Voice, a conservative cable channel: "we are in the process of the second American Revolution."
Much of the nearly 900 pages of the plan detail extreme conservative reforms of the executive branch. Among the recommendations and plans of Project 2025 are the following ideas:
1. To criminalize pornography, dissolve the departments of Commerce and Education, reject the idea of abortion as health care and destroy them.
2. To eliminate the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which includes the National Weather Service, as “one of the main drivers of the alarm industry about climate change.”
3. To support the deployment of the military “to assist in detention operations” along the border between the United States and Mexico.
Donald Trump and his reading of reality
Let's take a moment to discuss Donald Trump and his readings of reality, which will allow us to understand how he defeated Hillary Clinton and the Biden-Harris duo with extreme ease.
We are not dealing with a politician of high culture or high society manners; we are referring to Trump, a politician with a refined journalistic and political nose for reading realities and creating a wonderful and affectionate message for his followers. He fulfilled this to the letter. And that has allowed him to be president on two occasions.
Trump defeated Hillary Clinton because he noticed the conservatism of marginalized workers. And he defeated Harris because he read about the crisis and the disorder at the border and the high prices in the pockets of consumers.
In addition, he needed money to compete with Harris's voluminous collections and offered Elon Musk all the political power possible for 260 million dollars.
Owning Gaza means many things
President Trump knows perfectly well that it is not possible to take over Gaza overnight, because the Arab world, in general, will oppose it. He defends the idea, because it strengthens his alliance with the Israeli right and with the economic force for the development that he intends to promote. But he knows perfectly well that it is not easy to override the sovereignty of the people.
Egypt, governed by Abdel Fattal el Sisi, would be the first to reject the idea because it knows perfectly well the political strength of the Muslim Brotherhood in its country. If the Gazans move to Egypt, they would strengthen this opposition force against El Sisi, which could even overthrow him.
Jordan, governed by the monarch Abdullah II, would be the second to oppose the idea, because half of the Jordanian population of this kingdom is Palestinian. Therefore, this move would weaken Abdullah's power in his own country. And the same thing could happen to him as in Egypt.
The Saudis, along with the rest of the Arab world, would not support ethnic cleansing in Gaza, because this would consolidate the power of Netanyahu, whom they want to weaken or even destroy. But Trump is better off owning Gaza, because it brings him closer to the political and economic power of Israel and the world.
What are Trump's plans for a second term?
The now re-elected president has historically been disengaged, even hostile, toward any kind of transition planning for a possible second term. But these are his ideas:
1. Cut civil service protections.
2. Conduct the largest mass deportation effort in history.
3. Impose sweeping tariffs in every possible direction.
4. Attack his enemies using presidential powers.
5.Use a legal justification to eliminate the independence of the Justice Department from the president; and several of his closest advisers are investigating lawyers considered more likely to adopt aggressive legal theories about the scope of their power.
AGENDA 47
Trump's political platform is called Agenda 47
Agenda 47 is more concise than Project 2025. And while Agenda 47 is the official list of policy priorities for his campaign, Trump himself rarely mentioned Agenda 47 by name on the campaign trail. He shies away from plans.
President Trump prefers the use of surprise in his everyday political messages. In keeping with that approach, the released Republican Party platform features a less specific agenda that he approved directly and can refer to. The platform reflects a softening on abortion, an issue he sees as his greatest vulnerability following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
TRUMP'S TOP ADVISORS
Trump's top advisers are Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita and both felt that much of the PROJECT 2025 document could be damaging in the general election. They were especially concerned about everything to do with abortion restrictions, a sign that Trump is trying to appear more moderate on the issue as his focus shifts from the primary concerns of the Republican Party.
Following the overturning of Roe Wade, a decision made by conservative judges appointed by him, Trump is increasingly convinced that radical abortion restrictions are electoral poison.
Steve Bannon, a close Trump ally, told ABC News in late June 2024, before entering a federal prison to serve a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress, that Project 2025 would “dismantle the administrative state brick by brick,” while brandishing a copy of the report.
Conclusion
Trump never enthusiastically supported Project 2025 publicly during his election campaign, because he knew it could cost him votes, even though we know of his deep emotional ties with the brains at the Heritage Foundation.
On this issue of abortion, Trump always moves carefully, because he knows that within the world of the real voters he is not popular. Trump's nose always resisted being seen as an ideological opponent of abortion. He was careful.
However, with the above description of his policies and ideas, it is easy to conclude that they are not close to or in line with Christian Social Doctrine.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alberto Muller is a Cuban-American author and journalist who resides in Miami, Florida. At the age of 19, he organized a student protest repudiating the visit to Cuba of Anastas Mikoyan, the Soviet leader who led the slaughter of the Hungarian people in 1956. Shortly thereafter, he was elected as Secretary General of the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (abbreviation: DRE; English: Student Revolutionary Directory), an organization that seeks to liberate Cuba from communist totalitarianism. At age 21, he commanded a guerrilla group in the Sierra Maestra. On his first night in detention, he was subjected to a simulated shooting in the Las Mercedes camp in the Sierra Maestra. Shortly thereafter, he was held incommunicado in the cells of the Castle of Santiago de Cuba. Thanks to many university demonstrations in Latin America, he was not sentenced to death but suffered political imprisonment for 15 years. He has authored several books on the Cuban revolution, including the best selling essay ¿POR QUÉ FIDEL ABANDONÓ AL CHE? (WHY FIDEL ABANDONED CHE?), and remains active as director of CUBA Y SU HISTORIA (CUBA AND ITS HISTORY), a TV Program thorough PBS, Channel 17 in Miami, and director of TRINCHERA (TRENCH), an online journal that conveys news and articles about the impending collapse of the communist regime in Cuba.
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