I am about a third of the way through Project 2025’s 922 page full PDF.
(Linked below...)
I can see why President Trump hasn’t simply declared his support for it,
even though there are a great many things in it that I’m certain he DOES
support. It does contain a LOT of thoughtful point making, but the contained
politics seem a bit too “diverse” to just be blindly aligned with as a whole product.
Much of it argues, in detail, for the reinstatement and furtherance of the
policies, orders and implementations President Trump orchestrated during his
first term, but much is also written about how to reform certain agencies, that
perhaps would be better eliminated due to their entrenched rot.
Another section seems to defend the importance of the preservation and
further strengthening of the Military Industrial Complex by promoting the
design and manufacture, for world consumption and sale, of dominant military
technologies, exportable by design from the outset.
The whole thing is a compilation of opinions from a broad array of ostensibly
conservative groups, assembled by the Heritage Foundation. So far, I find
much of it on point, but with some of it betraying a decidedly GOPe aroma.
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
I didn’t see it the same way that you did (with respect to the GOPe stink) but I have not read it in detail yet.
Granted, things like saying we need to develop tactical nuclear weapons and upgrade our current ones are going to cause horror in some people, but those are not unreasonable suggestions and are open to debate.
I have never felt that having an arms manufacturing industry in which foreign sales are important to be objectionable, because those foreign sales also allow us to more affordably arm ourselves, but I get your drift. And saying the procurement process needs to be overhauled is an epic understatement.
I was reading a paper by a Lt. Colonel at Air College. In it he describes a new "Plan Orange" for countering the Chinese if they were to become overtly belligerent within the First Island Chain (FIC) of the Pacific. What he accurately describes is an endless war that is a MIC wet dream. One of expensive conventional weapons and defenses in a stalemate that wishes to avoid some ultimate encounter for all mankind. In so doing, the alternative looks just as bad in a death of a thousand cuts wherein the MIC becomes ever richer. But for what? None of any of this makes any sense.
Remember the doctor in "Bridge Over the River Kwai" and as the bridge blows up he looks on saying, "Madness! Just Madness!" That is today.
Beetle bombs anyone?
Who, in the heat of battle and a transition of the presidency, is going to find the time to read much of this at all? No wonder leaders get led into ditches having to simply trust on faith what people coach them to do. Busy people need a menu before you give them everything on it at once.
I am very disappointed this is the kind of product Heritage has produced.
And why do they publish these documents in this ridiculous and hard to read gray font?
Additionally, a lot of the very people who wrote this document are the ones that led Trump astray his first administration. I see a lot of career camp followers and leeches of the government tit in their ranks just waiting for their next chance to take a draw on ths tit.