Project 2025: The 900-page guide to snuffing out American democracy

By Ben JealousWhat 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?Ben Jealous is executive director of the Sierra Club and a professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania. This week, he discusses the dangers of the right-wing plan, titled “Project 2025.” Credit: Courtesy PhotoThat 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...