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On July 4, Americans celebrated their supposed (now former) independence as the land of the free and the home of the brave. The very next day, Trump unequivocally disavowed Project 2025.
So, what is Project 2025, what is the group’s goals, and who is behind it?
To begin, the stated goal on their website is:
It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on Day One of the next conservative Administration.
While they cannot legally advocate for specific candidates, this is a clear reference to the fact that Trump failed to deliver in his first term in large part because he was surrounded by establishment swamp creatures who constantly sabotaged his efforts. Due to the vast size of the modern executive branch that oversees the American Empire, the modern American presidency is of necessity a team effort. For example, Biden currently has 564 White House staffers. Even if a President is as energetic as Napoleon, he must delegate power. Directly supervising an entire legion of staffers is impossible, so they must possess a high degree of integrity. Trump’s previous staffers generally had none.
This was evident in the way in which Trump’s first term was plagued by leaks. He was also spoon-fed bad advice. While his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was a major offender in this area, he was far from alone. Too many staffers were loyal to the DC establishment rather than to Trump, let alone America. This was a large part of the reason why we wound up with “artistically-designed steel slats” instead of a proper border wall.
Instead of merely complaining about this debacle, certain people decided to learn from the mistakes of the past and to do something productive about it. They then created Project 2025, which aims to provide “a policy agenda, Presidential Personnel Database, Presidential Administration Academy, and playbook for the first 180 days of the next Administration.”
So, who is behind Project 2025? It is spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, but they are only one out of a vast coalition of over a hundred conservative organizations on its advisory board. Notable members include Turning Point USA, the Claremont Institute, the National Rifle Association (NRA), Gun Owners of America, Moms for Liberty, Protect Our Kids, and America First Legal.
I have some constructive criticisms of some of these organizations. For example, the NRA was lukewarm in supporting Kyle Rittenhouse, and I even wrote an article blasting America First Legal. Mainstream conservatism certainly has its problems, but it is obvious that Project 2025 represents the better part of American conservatism. This is evident in the policies they advocate.
Project 2025 proposes abolishing the Department of Education, which would end federal meddling in schools, which according to an originalist interpretation of the Constitution should be entirely a state matter, anyway. While Project 2025 does not mention it, doing this would also incidentally get rid of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, which is widely despised, especially in regards to math.
According to the Leftist media, another policy the group favors is the deportation of illegal immigrants, holding them in camps while they are pending deportation, and using the military to help round them up. Given that illegals aren’t known for keeping their court dates of their immigration hearings, there’s nothing extreme in this. And while using camps may not be popular, mass deportations of illegals certainly are according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, the results of which were substantially replicated in a Homeland Institute poll. Furthermore, many countries use their military for internal policing, especially to fight narcotics. Given that mass immigration is a form of invasion that also facilitates drug smuggling, violence, and human trafficking, deploying the military for the limited role of organizing mass deportations is certainly warranted.
The 887-page Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership Playbook is available in full online, and in it, a search for the word “camps” only yields four hits, two of which are about foreign humanitarian aid backfiring. “Deport” only shows up four times. Perhaps the Left is drawing on quotes from elsewhere, or has accidentally or purposefully conflated Trump’s talk of mass deportations with Project 2025. However, on page 177, Project 2025 does suggest sanctioning countries that refuse to accept deportees by refusing to issue their citizens visas until they comply. This shows they have no qualms about playing hardball on immigration.
Other proposed policies concern reforming Medicare and Medicaid, or else cutting them, at least according to the media. How much of what they propose is reform rather than cutting is open to debate, but these programs indeed drive government spending. They are also in favor of reducing climate protections (climate change is a farce), and are pro-fossil fuels (that hydrocarbons are probably not generated solely by fossil fuels falls outside the scope of this article). Project 2025 also seeks to rein in the FBI and terminate any activity related to policing so-called “misinformation” that isn’t connected to criminal activity. I would prefer to abolish the FBI outright, because its willful and continuous misconduct mean it is probably past redemption, but nothing is perfect.
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Its best policy proposals are ending affirmative action and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and using the Department of Justice to prosecute “all state and local governments, institutions of higher education, corporations, and any other private employers” who use them to discriminate against whites.[1] Civil rights for white people too? An establishment that could manage that is one I could make peace with.
Why did Trump disavow Project 2025? It is because they are loyal to Trump’s original vision of America First that he sold to us in 2016. With great prescience, Nicholas J. Fuentes remarked in part on June 13, 2024 that “[t]he media seems to be far more concerned about Project 2025 than they do about a Donald Trump presidency.” Fuentes observed that the media might not be pro-Trump, but they are not terrified of him to the same degree that they are of Project 2025, probably due to the fact that Trump’s first term was objectively milquetoast. This reveals that Project 2025 is more America First and more of a threat to the DC swamp than Trump.
Trump has clearly betrayed his own America First agenda ever since 2016 through both his acts and omissions. Today he has dropped all pretense and is openly doing it with his words. Through a likely combination of carrots (cash from Zionist and corporate megadonors) and sticks (unending lawfare), Trump has made his peace with the America Last establishment. Given the degree to which he has sold out, one can’t help but wonder if he ever really believed in America First at all. I suspect that Trump merely cynically used populism as a weapon because he had been excluded from high society as a result of being from “new money.”
Let’s consider the argument that Trump’s disavowal was justified because Project 2025 has bad optics, is extremist, or is not focused on the right issues.
Admittedly, a basic search in the Playbook for the word “immigrant” only brings up 13 hits, while “immigration” appears 154 times and “deport” only four times. “Abortion” yields 199 hits, “porn” five hits, and “contracept” 11 hits. So yes, they are anti-pornography and anti-contraception, which might be off-putting to some people. This basic search seems to show that abortion outshines immigration in their eyes — but only by a little. Immigration was the hallmark of Trump’s first campaign and is far from a minor issue for Project 2025.
As I have previously discussed in relation to the special elections that were held in November 2023, abortion and Zionism are losing policy focuses. Trump and the United States Supreme Court have decided to turn abortion over to the states, which, frankly, is where it belongs according to an originalist interpretation of state versus federal regulatory power. The states, not the federal government, is where abortion should be fought over — not that abortion should be a priority for conservatives in any event, due to the fact that it doesn’t really affect us.
I doubt that Project 2025’s stance on abortion is the real reason why the Leftist media recoils from them or why Trump disavowed them. But by making abortion so prominent, Project 2025 has made it easier for the media to undertake a coordinated smear campaign and for Trump to distance himself.
In stark contrast to abortion’s prevalence, “Israel” returned only ten hits, one of which was a person’s name. In conservative politics, Israel is usually front-and-center, to the detriment of all other issues, thus a mere nine hits compared to a combined total of 167 for immigration is a refreshing indeed, almost unheard of — reprioritization of issues in mainstream politics. Project 2025 is at least following my advice in regards to Zionism.
This at last brings us to what is probably the principal reason Trump and the media have so viciously attacked Project 2025. In regard to balancing the importance of our borders versus Israel’s borders, it is thoroughly America First.
Furthermore, the argument that Trump didn’t want to be tainted with guilt by association with the organization fails to stand against even cursory scrutiny. Trump has been smeared so many times in so many ways, including guilt by association, that another smear simply wouldn’t matter to him. And after Sleepy Joe blew the first presidential debate to the degree that many on the Left are frantically demanding a replacement, Trump has surged ahead in the battleground states.
Furthermore, Trump could have chosen not say anything at all. He could have at least said something to the effect that he agrees with some of the organization’s positions and disagrees with others. As President, he would be free to pick and choose from Project 2025’s policy buffet. Instead, he issued a wholesale and vicious condemnation.
Admittedly, some of the people behind Project 2025 have said some incendiary things. In early July, Kevin Roberts, the leader of the Heritage Foundation, said that “we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the Left allows it to be.” Paul Dans, the project’s director, further said in April 2023 that Project 2025 is “systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army [of] aligned, trained, and essentially weaponized conservatives ready to do battle against the Deep State.” But this is no more inflammatory than the sort of rhetoric Trump already frequently employs.
Speaking in Waco, Texas — of all places — Trump said that “I am your warrior, I am your justice . . . for those who have been wronged and betrayed . . . I am your retribution,” and “either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State.” Trump’s Waco remarks were made in March 2023, long before the Leftist media’s attacks had intensified. As such, Kevin Roberts and Paul Dans were agreeing and amplifying Trump’s rhetoric. Besides, the federal government is the most unpopular level of government, as revealed in a Homeland Institute poll in which only 19.5% of white registered voters said that the federal government cares about their interests. Thus, it’s a popular target to beat up on.
Trump’s alleged playing of “five-dimensional chess” likewise needs to eventually manifest in the real world. Trump has failed to deliver when he has talked big in the past, so why should we expect him to deliver when he is already caving in due to media pressure?
Trump’s disavowal, much like his talk of stapling green cards to diplomas, also naturally raises doubts about whether he will keep any of his election promises. If he caves this easily to donor carrots and media sticks before he’s even in office, its unlikely that he will be staunch supporter of any of the more attractive policies he’s suggested at all, and especially not mass deportations of illegal immigrants.
Conservatives have failed to conserve anything because of their cowardice and incompetence. But if more conservatives shared Project 2025’s militancy, then they would have been successful and America would not presently be slouching toward becoming a pastel Soviet Union with third-world demographics. This is why the Left has been so alarmed by Project 2025. They are terrified of facing a real enemy for once instead of an impotent punching bag.
The establishment GOP has failed to defend America because they were successful in their true mission. They are a form of controlled opposition designed to facilitate the Left, not counter them — especially in regard to the Great Replacement. This makes them an objective enemy. If Trump chooses to become a pillar of the establishment rather than a wrecking ball, then he is an objective enemy as well.
This is why Trump lurks in his stagnant ghetto of Truth Social rather than posting on Twitter/X, despite the fact that he used to use the platform as his primary mouthpiece to such a degree that he was practically synonymous with it, and that Elon Musk has at great personal expense transformed it into a platform that (relatively) protects free speech. This is extremely insulting to Musk and also deprives Trump of a major weapon. The reason is because Trump knows that he would be held to account on Twitter/X. If he had disavowed Project 2025 there, Nick Fuentes and others would have ritualistically ratioed him in the public square.
This flows into the broader issue of Trump’s disrespect for a wide swath of both the conservative elite as well as its rank-and-file. Project 2025 has a $22 million budget, which had to come from somewhere. From young potential staffers to megadonors and everyone in between, Trump merely stomped on them like a dumb brute smashing a beautiful sand castle they were building — and moreover, building for him. I take this personally, because were I still undoxed, I would be a potential Project 2025 staffer who just had his hopes and dreams destroyed. It is also reasonable to assume that there are more than a few of /our guys/ on their list.
I would encourage these disgruntled conservatives to consider going rogue. The establishment disavows well-meaning people on the Right, whether they wear skull masks or suits. This includes Trump. They say that every radical must make his peace with the establishment. But perhaps the reverse is true, and the time has come for mainstream conservatives to make their peace with us. We all want what is best for our people, which has become materially disadvantageous for the interests of the donor class and the Deep State. This was always the case, but it is now undeniable.
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Unlike Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, and yes, Donald Trump, we won’t betray you. We have withstood years of anarcho-tyranny, hit pieces from the fake news media, censorship, deplatforming, and on and on. All those from the old Alt Right who were too weak to stand the pressure have either long since disappeared or surrendered like Trump. Those who join us now do so knowing full well the gravity of the fight. The crucible of history has made us strong and committed. We won’t disavow you because of some journalist who barks about you.
Furthermore, our democracy has devolved into rule by money, as it invariably does. Project 2025’s $22 million budget was surpassed by Miriam Adelson’s pledge of $100 million to the Trump campaign with the clear intention of putting Israel, rather than America, First. Even if you think you can outspend the Deep State and the establishment, would that be an efficient solution? And would it even matter if weapons such as blackmail and lawfare are being used against candidates?
What power can defeat such an entrenched system? In The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler writes that
[t]he coming of Caesarism breaks the dictature of money and its political weapon, democracy . . . A power can be overthrown only by another power, not by a principle, and no power that can confront money is left but this one. Money is overthrown and abolished only by blood.
The only solution is therefore a Caesar figure wielding the vital forces which can only be found in blood. Today, this takes the form of nationalism. With our dedication and strength along with your expertise, connections, and money, we could do great things. If the better half of mainstream conservatism continues to work with rotten establishment conservatism, they will only be betrayed yet again, just as Emmanuel Macron and the center-Right have delivered France into the hands of literal antifa Communists rather than let the supposed “far Right” take the power they won fair and square in the recent election.
Project 2025 says that “[t]he next conservative President will enter office on January 20, 2025, with a simple choice: greatness or failure.” Trump has already chosen failure. But perhaps by working together, we can build a brighter future.
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[1] See page 562.
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What can we do in place of Trump right now? What could someone right now do as a basic single-first step do for pro-white advocacy?
If Trump is completely corrupt, I believe we need a plan of action right now.
I think that at this point we all need to join a Pro-White Party is action oriented. I recommend everyone joining the American Freedom Party. There is much momentum in the party right now. Join it, spread news of it, we can win by joining organizations that promote our beliefs, etc.
American Freedom Party: https://www.americanfreedomparty.us/
AFP has some excellent people. I’m excited to see where they go.
Thank you so much Mr. Zsutty! I share your articles from the Homeland Institute with my family. They are so great, and the Homeland Institute is one my favorite think-tanks.
I think the most important thing is to remember that the vote you get every four years is among the smallest things you can do. It’s not entirely meaningless, and so you should treat it seriously, but it’s nothing compared to the other things you should be doing, like organizing locally and at the state level, getting involved in school boards and city councils, working to take over the local district GOP, and then using the resources to gain influence in the state GOP, etc. If you’re young, you should find and join an Active Club to “tribe and train” and network with other nationalists. If you’re old you should support nationalists with your money and talents.
First of all, my eyes glaze over at reading nearly 3000 words, but that is just my problem, so ignore. But I do have to say that if I were rich, I would rent a rocket ship from Elon Musk and ship Biden, Harris and Trump to Mars. I am sure we could find three other fine candidates to fill their places, as I am also sure that intelligent Americans are mulling over this very concept at this very minute.
As for illegal aliens — their true appellation — I think the miliary should be used to take over the closing of the border. The Navy could take over the Rio Grande River, a charming swimming pool for illegals. Regular Army Troops could carry guns which would stop most of the mess. And my favorite idea — have our military schools teach horseback riding, and send mounted troupes to states on the border, along with their state cavalry troupes, and I am sure that will stop about 50 – 75% of the problem, which will cut down on jailing.
Seriously, this has been a great post by a person that has put in a lot of effort to address this horrid problem confronting everyone in America. We must, as nationalists, continue to label this as an ‘invasion’, not just ‘some poor people seeking a better life’ — ah, pobrecito (sp.)
I’ve advocated for a long time that the feds should simply purchase a 1 mile wide border stretching both northern and southern borders. These would have at least two layers of fencing and also be military bases 24/7. Any infringement is deemed hostile action and definitive response is required. People have complained about bases being used as pork for senators. Now they can solve this by carving out a solid strip of the country to repel the invaders.
Is it possible trump is throwing a head fake by disavowing the project? It’s truly bizarre how he continues the failed past efforts at the big tent. How about focus on the friendly and loyal tent that you already know you can win with instead of a pipe dream of being carried to victory on the shoulders of minorities? If they want to give you their votes then welcome them, but stop pandering. I don’t see mass deportations in our future. Bummer.
“So yes, they are anti-pornography and anti-contraception, which might be off-putting to some people. This basic search seems to show that abortion outshines immigration in their eyes — but only by a little.”
In other words, Project 2025 is a Christian Nationalist platform and I’m going to ignore it.
What ‘the Right’ and ‘conservatives’ will never admit is that they are in the thrall of certain ‘special interest groups’ the distort the policies they recommend. What is the connection between ‘unwelcoming’ non-White immigrants and abortion? I don’t see it. But, for some reason, Project 2025 thinks that both these things are connected.
This is the approach that is has destroyed the coalition on ‘the Left’ but ‘conservatives’ and ‘the Right’ are adopting it at the exact moment when simply policies supported by large majorities of Whites and non-Whites (like immigration restriction and repatriation) would result in political victory (and institutional power).
This just reaffirms my view that ‘conservative’ politics exists to make ‘White politics’ safe for jews and non-White Americans.
Whites have an agent problem. We need agents to represent our interests. To survive we Whites need to be an effective in-group that can oppose antiwhite aggression. Every effective in-group needs both leaders and followers. Unfortunately for us, whomever we raise up to be our leaders looks back at the mass of Whites, and sees us (deprived of representation and leadership) as helpless masses who can be betrayed with impunity. The leaders that Whites have raised up then seek to align with their peers, the leaders of solid, mutually loyal antiwhite in-groups.
This is not a problem that applies just to Donald Trump from 2016 on or a problem that applies just to America. This is a problem that harms Whites worldwide and that has been harming us for decades and generations.
Our whole way of getting agents to represent our interests is fatally broken. We need a different way to do this.
Project 25 sounds like a bunch of Bible-thumper B.S., a good way to get lost in the weeds. The Kosher Right is VERY good at doing just that.
Let the Libtards obsess on Abortion. Trump already did what he said he would and got abortion overturned in the Supreme Court and sent back to the States.
Some states like Idaho then passed dumb and overly-restrictive abortion bans that won’t last long without legislative and legal tweaks, but that should effectively be the end of it, and anything more will just suck up all the political oxygen and go nowhere. Like Gun Control, the issue politically mobilizes the Left to their detriment.
Trump now needs to focus on countersignalling Immigration ─ anything contrarian towards the affirmation of JFK’s “a nation of immigrants” nonsense is a big win in rhetoric ─ but otherwise, if he can’t stay focused on being anti-immigration, he will again accomplish nothing.
I am betting that Trump, if elected, accomplishes little or nothing, not even a wall ─ but his court picks were infinitely better than Hillary’s would have been, and Biden’s or Kamala’s are (or will be).
This is what we lost in the Election of 2020:
“Biden had the largest number of Article III judicial nominees confirmed during a president’s first year in office since Ronald Reagan in 1981. [5] Biden reached the milestone of 200 federal judicial confirmations on May 22, 2024. This rate of judicial confirmations exceeded the pace of Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump. [6]“
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I agree. Project 2025 is a bunch of empty promises. For how long have we been hearing about doing away with the Department of Education? I’d be floored if they managed to get one of those proposals passed.
Scott: July 9, 2024 Project 25 sounds like a bunch of Bible-thumper B.S…
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I’ll take your word for it, Scott. and won’t bother to look into Project 25.
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…Fuentes remarked in part on June 13, 2024 that “[t]he media seems [sic] to be far more concerned about Project 2025 than they do about a Donald Trump presidency.”
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Whatever that means is irrelevant.
When I see the young non-White Fuentes’s name tossed about in pro-White circles my mind automatically goes to his alleged quote less than a year ago that when he and his crew take over, all non-Christians will be exterminated. What a lovely plan. Does this fool style himself the new Grand Inquisitor? If anyone needs to be exterminated, it is he, before he multiplies.
Stephen Miller? Founder of America First Legal? Really? He has a glib, convincing line of patter about how bad illegal immigration is but face it: he’s more likely a Talmud thumper than a Christian one.
Trump is disavowing Project 2025 precisely because of the abortion content. The fetal personhood stuff and the attempt to restrict access to the abortion pill. Those planks are really unpopular.
Unfortunately, anti-abortion activists wield real power in the GOP. Overturning Roe has only emboldened them. Do you know there are actual right-wing intellectuals like Hadley Arkes who argue the Supreme Court should declare fertilized eggs “persons” under the Fourteenth Amendment, and they cite Lincoln freeing the slaves as precedent? That’s the mindset from the anti-abortion right.
Trump is disavowing Project 2025 precisely because of the abortion content. The fetal personhood stuff and the attempt to restrict access to the abortion pill. Those planks are really unpopular.
Exactly. Trump is trying to win an election and doesn’t want to be linked to some of the nutty proposals in a manifesto created by the neocon Heritage Foundation, the same people who fired Jason Richwine for being a race realist.
Trump didn’t give a hard disavowal, he wished them “good luck” but said other things were “abysmal” and made it clear he wasn’t associated with them. Which is true.
Politics is necessarily give and take. What does Trump gain from association with bible-thumpers? The media will take license to put a spotlight on Project 25’s least popular position and run with the slightest endorsement given by Trump, just as they did with the “Good people on both sides” remark.
Contrary to what Zsutty says, it *does* matter whether the media can make a tight association or whether they have to allege that Trump is lying, and make tortuous connections. There are still a lot of White middle-class moderate types who read the news, but are willing to be skeptical about smears. They need to at least have a reason to be skeptical.
Even if Trump wanted to work with Project 25 and implement some of their ideas, it is probably still in his interest to publicly disavow them. His first job is to get elected, or else nothing else will be possible.
At the end of the day money talks and ideas are cheap, and we are in the position of paupers trading in ideas. We can’t throw billions at Trump like the Jewish oligarchs can. Indeed all we can do is appeal to his sense of honour, and try to transmit ideas that speak to the present time. These ideas must be distilled with power. Cutting your ideas with inessential vanity issues makes one little more than a hanger-on, and a public relations liability.
Instead of heaping more blame on Trump, let’s look at things for what they are.
It would be so easy to create winning platform. The US population is one of the most studies and surveyed populations in the world. We know what people want and we could easy find out how much they would be willing to sacrifice is order to get it. But the whole point of national politics is to advance the dumbest, most counterproductive policies in order to exacerbate differences in the electorate, especially the White electorate.
Pro-White Americans should walk away form national politics and focus building up nullification infrastructure in their local environment.
Well my early impression is Project 2025 is crackpotism and we don’t need it.
It’s armored 1980’s conservatism, and while we support many conservative tendencies and seek to uphold them, we are not in fact conservatives. It also reminds me a bit of the Tea Party thing, where reactions to things happening politically get rerouted into dumb crap and tax cuts.
There’s two sets of policies within Project2025 that I can glean.
The first are designed to appeal to the grass roots -tough on immigration, identity politics, diversity quotas and so on. The second looks like the usual crackpottery; lifting environmental restrictions, start a new nuclear arms race, and make sure there’s even more tax cuts for rich people and but with the president unimpeded by checks and balances. You have to ask how much the first will be jettisoned as soon as its convenient (after the election for instance) to do so, while there’s a massive effort to deploy the second. If this actually happened you could end up with a superneocon superneoliberal POTUS with super powers.
The best you could do is hope the document is 4D chess, and wouldn’t actually get half of these elite policies.
I’m not obsessively anti-Christian as some on the right are, but I worry about a kind of ‘applied Christianity’ when it comes to politics, because with very little prodding the end result is inclusion and war. I read there is Christian lobby support and steering behind Project2025. The influence of Christianity in American politics in the last decades has been mostly a disaster.
Project2025’s policies on Israel are the same as the status quo.
Their document also mention, “Russia’s brazen aggression against Ukraine” and” The United States and its allies also face real threats from Russia, as evidenced by Vladimir Putin’s brutal war in Ukraine”, “China’s bellicosity both on its borders and in surrounding disputed regions.”, “Today, the People’s Republic of China Peo-ple’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) can challenge the USN’s ability to accomplish its mission in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.” and “curtailing Counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) globally.” It also talks about ballistic missile defense for the “homeland” against North Korea.
You can change the goals a bit, but it appears as a modified blueprint for the military industrial complex, for rich people to be richer, and war. We don’t need this. Let it burn.
The right should be: anti-war, pro nuclear disarmament, pro environment, pro serious health care at this point.
While there are massive problems with the topic from our elites and the left, I don’t think ‘climate change is a farce’ is the right energy on this strictly anymore.
Other parts of the document about the WHO and so on just gave me a headache reading it.
As for Trump, I’ve said before I think Trump had good instincts, but he was never fully competent, he wasn’t a strategist and he was an older fellow which made him vulnerable to whisperers in his ear and flatterers. Trump himself was like a bull in a china shop, but whatever good instincts he had have been drained out of him by the structural realities and being put through the left’s grinder.
I don’t like the idea of reanimating Trump at this point, as anything more than a stepping stone to something better. But I think he’s too compromised and too old and too strange.
Trump as Caesar thing…that ship has long since sailed.
I echo the commentariat here. Project 2025 is something White Nationalists should distance ourselves from. It is a toxic combination of Abrahamist social conservatism – sorry, but these people really do want 13 year old rape victims to carry a baby to term – and the most cringe rhetoric that we have worked so hard to discredit and topple: “Rights are from God,” “adherence to the Constitution,” etc. Conservatives have spouted this garbage for decades. To no avail.
Two takes here:
1. Autistic obsession with institutions and legal norms in the Anglo world must go. Almost every sphere of life in the 2020s is ruled by the law of the jungle. Including politics. I applaud David Zsutty’s denunciation of Trump, but I think everyone involved with Pro-White politics should drop whatever sentiments they possess about States Rights, Originalism, the Rule of Law, or institutional norms in general. Civil Law was always better for the White Race than Common Law.
2. Right Wing Modernism – or Right Wing Progressivism – is the wave of the future. I’m proud to see Walt Bismarck and others beat this drum on Substack. Mary Herrington, a nonracialist feminist, has already embraced this concept and given it flesh. Traditionalism is an Old God (HT: Spencer Quinn) that served its purpose and should be discarded from our racial psyche. We are a modern race, a forward race, and a progressive race. Over the last 500 years, we have chosen Modernism every step of the way, from our elites to our peasants. Project 2025 is fundamentally a Traditionalist agenda that is indifferent to racialism, and is at war with the modernist impulse inside us. (What the Christians cynically call “Sin.”). I say we lean into this impulse and reorient ourselves towards a vision for the future that allows us to completely undercut the Left and present an alternative that can actually win. Simply put, we need to combine the best aspects of Fascism with the best aspects of Libertarianism – by which I mean, not just the policies that are “best for our people” in an Ivory Tower sense, but policies and ideas that objectively appeal to people and are attractive to people. Project 2025 is repulsive at a visceral level. Everything that was wrong with conservatism from the founding of National Review to now is manifested in that agenda. The fact that it has teeth doesn’t make it any better.
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