Ben Jealous: The 900-page guide to snuffing out American democracy

People walk past a Heritage Foundation advertisement at the Milwaukee International Airport on July 12, 2024.& Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (TriceEdneyWire.com)—What if there was a blueprint for a future presidential administration to unilaterally lay waste to our constitutional order and turn America from a democracy into an autocracy in one fell swoop? That is what one far-right think tank and its contributors created. And more than a hundred other far-right organizations have now signed on to support that blueprint. What could possibly go wrong? Maybe you have heard about Project 2025. It was cooked up by the far-right Heritage Foundation. That organization’s leader says we are in a “second American Revolution” that he suggests could turn violent& if those& who oppose their disastrous plan& to kill our democracy do not get in line behind it.& For its 51-year history, the Heritage Foundation has always been an instrument of the Far Right. Around 2016, it started to become dangerously extreme. Project 2025, and its 900-page guidebook for ending the American experiment, is perhaps its most extreme—and dangerous— initiative yet. The premise behind Project 2025 is that our constitutional system of checks and balances somehow is skewed against the American people based...