J. Pharoah Doss: Is there a progressive presidential transition Project 2025?

When Senator Kamala Harris faced two dozen other candidates in the 2020 Democratic primary, she competed hard against the others to attract the far-left wing of the party. Reid J. Epstein, a New York Times columnist, explained that Harris ran to the left since progressive ideas dominated the last competitive Democratic primary. Now, as she enters a tough general election, Republicans are bringing up her previous positions, and the Kamala Harris of four years ago is going to haunt her. The Harris campaign is not concerned about their candidate’s progressive background. They pretend it does not exist. The Harris campaign repositioned its candidate as a moderate former prosecutor who will combat corporate greed in order to build an “opportunity economy” for middle-class Americans, and they characterize their Republican opponent as a far-right ideologue who intends to dismantle American democracy by enacting the Heritage Foundation’s radical plan for America—Project 2025—which is a 900-page document that contains policy recommendations for the next president. The Heritage Foundation is a think tank established in 1973. The Heritage Foundation’s founders believed that the think tanks that dominated public policy from the New Deal to the Great Society were overly liberal, so they founded Heritage to...