Posted on 07/20/2024 3:30:55 PM PDT by Red Badger
Spencer is Associate Director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project at The Heritage Foundation.
When conservatives do finally make it into an administration, they often don’t know what to do or how to seize the gears of power effectively.
KEY TAKEAWAYS It’s past time to lay the groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right.
The policy book Mandate for Leadership represents the work of more than 350 leading conservatives and outlines a vision of conservative success.
The usual suspects in the permanent political class will be ready for the next conservative administration. Will we be ready for them?
With the Biden administration half over and with the immediate dangers inherent to one-party rule in Washington behind us for now, it’s past time to lay the groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right. For decades, as the left has continued its march through America’s institutions, conservatives have been outgunned and outmatched when it comes to the art of government.
One reason is because the Republican establishment never moved on from the 1980s. Beltway conservatives still prioritize supply-side economics and a bellicose foreign policy above all else. Belief in small government, strangely enough, has manifested itself in a belief among some conservatives that we should lead by example and not fill all political appointments. Belief in the primacy of the national security state has caused conservative administrations to defer political decisions to the generals and the intelligence community.
The result has been decades of disappointment.
Fortunately, this situation is changing. The conservative movement increasingly knows what time it is in America. More and more of our politicians are willing to use the government to achieve our vision, because the neutrality of “keeping the government out of it” will lose every time to the left’s vast power. The calls for a “new Church Committee” represent a momentous shift in energy; while conservatives used to lament liberal Sen. Frank Church’s original project as a kooky leftist attack against “The Brave Men And Women of Our Intelligence Community,” we’re now the ones agitating for Congress to go after the three-letter agencies.
This new vigor of the right can be found at Project 2025. Organized by the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has brought together 45 (and counting) right-of-center organizations that are ready to get into the business of restoring this country through the combination of the right policies and well-trained people. The Project’s foundation is built on four interconnected pillars.
The first pillar, the upcoming production of the policy book Mandate for Leadership, represents the work of more than 350 leading conservatives and outlines a vision of conservative success at each federal agency during the next administration. Presidential candidates won’t be able to ignore what the conservative movement demands in this book.
The second is our online personnel database. This “Conservative LinkedIn” will launch in March and will provide an opportunity for rock-solid conservatives to place themselves in contention for roles in the next administration. This pillar will bring Mr. (and Mrs.) Smith to Washington.
The third is our Presidential Administration Academy. When conservatives do finally make it into an administration, they often don’t know what to do or how to seize the gears of power effectively. Through their action, inaction, and their encyclopedic knowledge of volumes of technicalities about the federal workforce, certain career federal employees are masterful in tripping us up. Our interactive, on-demand training sessions will change that. They will turn future conservative political appointees into experts in governmental effectiveness.
The fourth and final pillar of Project 2025 is our Playbook, which will take the policy ideas expressed in Mandate for Leadership and transform them into an implementation plan for each agency to advocate to the incoming administration. What regulations and executive orders must be signed on Day One? Where are the greatest needs for more political appointees? How can we effectively use the mechanisms of government to face our most challenging problems? Our Playbook will put our movement to work answering questions like these.
In November 2016, American conservatives stood on the verge of greatness. The election of Donald Trump to the presidency was a triumph that offered the best chance to reverse the left’s incessant march of progress for its own sake. Many of the best accomplishments, though, happened only in the last year of the Trump administration, after our political appointees had finally figured out the policies and process of different agencies, and after the right personnel were finally in place.
The usual suspects in the permanent political class will be ready for the next conservative administration. Will we be ready for them? That’s where Project 2025 comes in. We have two years, and one chance, to get this right.
This piece originally appeared in The American Conservative
Project 2025 is fuel for the Left to stir people up and sell the idea that Trump is radical and dangerous. I do not think it is helpful at this time. The ideas might be good, and I might support them after the election. But it seems to me that during this current campaign, talking about Project 2025 probably helps Biden more than it helps Trump.
Spencer should keep quiet until he turns 25 or so. Trump has already clearly said Agenda 2025 is NOT HIS AGENDA. If Trump needs his input, he can contact him. The establishment is hell bent on grabbing the steering wheel again.
And their director is a dues paying WEF clown. Time for them to STFU until after November... and then MAGA can evaluate their ideas QUIETLY. He do not need Heritage trumpeting their ideas loudly around.
“Organized by the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has brought together 45 (and counting) right-of-center organizations that are ready to get into the business of restoring this country through the combination of the right policies and well-trained people. The Project’s foundation is built on four interconnected pillars.
The first pillar, the upcoming production of the policy book Mandate for Leadership, represents the work of more than 350 leading conservatives and outlines a vision of conservative success at each federal agency during the next administration. Presidential candidates won’t be able to ignore what the conservative movement demands in this book.”
Translation: They are taking charge of Trump’s agenda and administration without his input. And they are shopping it around as loudly as they can. THIS group is where we get more Amy Conehead Barretts, more Bushies, more Bill Barrs, John Boltons, Rex Tillersons etc.
If Project 2025 didn’t exist then the left would find some other conservative initiative, twist their words, demonize them, and say represent all Republicans.
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I thought Project 2025 was from the Lincoln Project frauds..
No. Heritage foundation.
Once Trump is in, I hope you rethink this position.
While the Democrats want to focus the drooling masses on abortion, project 2025 is actually a “how to” on draining The Swamp. That’s their real issue with it.
Well said and easily understood. The Left’s effort to use Project 2025 as an albatross around President Trump’s neck is an old stunt well used out of their playbook. It reminds me of using President Bush’s words as an albatross: “Read my lips, no new taxes!”
I want both President Trump and JD Vance to soundly put albatross, Project 2025, over the side in a Deep Six (a depth of 6 fathoms) action.
I wouldn’t necessarily assume that man will still be alive or woman will survive come the year 2025.
Why would you not want policy positions to be debated and up front before votes are cast?
Project 2025 does NOT represent Trump’s policy positions. Not much point in debating them.
The Heritage Foundation is pushing Project 2025 as a means to grapple for money for their own interests—always follow the money!!!
Sets up a Sista Soulja moment. Will Trump bite?
Some changes need to be just plain sprung on the populace AFTER the election. Run on them and you lose. Think Mondull-I just did. Social security changes are it.
Any kind of support for Project 2025 requires one to read the entire 900-page book. If is written as bad as Obamacare (906 pages), burn the book.
That article is 6 years old and claims that Trump partially supported the “Mandate for Leadership”.
What’s the point of posting that link?
This is garbage to undermine President Trump. He is being blamed for this and had no part of it, has repeated disavowed it. Shame on Heritage Foundation.
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