Posted on 07/12/2025 10:32:02 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
As he looks back at the defeat of former Vice President Kamala Harris last fall, the thing that keeps bothering Andrei Cherny, a onetime Democratic speechwriter and state party leader, is that he didn’t know what Harris would have done as president if she had won.
The way he saw it, President Donald Trump ran on his own ideas, but Harris only ran against Trump’s. “The oldest truism in politics is you can’t beat something with nothing,” Cherny said.
Now Cherny, the co-founder of a nearly 2-decade-old liberal policy journal, is organizing a group of Democratic thinkers to re-create what Trump’s allies did when he was voted out of office: draft a ready-made agenda for the next Democratic presidential nominee.
They’re calling it Project 2029.
The title is an unsubtle play on Project 2025, the independently produced right-wing agenda that Trump spent much of last year’s campaign distancing himself from, and much of his first few months back in power executing.
The fact that Democrats turned Project 2025 into a cudgel against Trump during the campaign has not deterred Cherny and the other Democrats working with him from borrowing the tactic. They plan to roll out an agenda over the next two years, in quarterly installments, through Cherny’s publication, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. The goal is to turn it into a book — just like Project 2025 — and to rally leading Democratic presidential candidates behind those ideas during the 2028 primary season.
The undertaking, which has not previously been reported, strikes at the heart of a raging debate consuming Democratic lawmakers, strategists and policymakers: whether the root of the party’s problems is its ideas or its difficulty in persuading people to embrace them.
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“…whether the root of the party’s problems is its ideas or its difficulty in persuading people to embrace them.”
They know the answer; we all do. Stepping back from their policy madness is not possible; their base won’t tolerate it.
Whatever Obama told her to do just like Biden.
The rate the GOP is going 3 Grannies with brooms will be able to sweep them away as the only thing the GOP ran Congress has done is prove you can’t have to many vacations...
He shouldn't beat himself up too badly because Harris didn't know either.
This will fail. First, Trump didn't run on Project 2025. That was a democrat fantasy. Second, democrats have no problem pulling focus group tested 'ideas' out of the hat that will 'play well'... And they have no problem selling those ideas to the press or getting the democrat team behind them. The problem is they can't make any of their goals for Americans happen.
“The oldest truism in politics is you can’t beat something with nothing,”
https://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/bull.wav
whenever a liberal tries to throw “project 2025” in my face i always respond the same way- i’ll see your project 2025 and raise you a new green deal and a 1619 project....
Come on. It should be Project 2027. Dismissing the mid-terms? The Contract With America was mid-term. Putting all their eggs in the ‘29 basket is a bigger gamble.
Lets see the Dems Project 2029 I already know it without reading it, open borders, 100 million new illegal alien invaders, abolishing ICE entirely, abolishing the border patrol entirely, mass amnesty for everyone who came here illegally, woke crap, men playing in womens sports and vise versa, everyone must praise Hamas everyday and twice on Sundays, abortions til the moment of birth and even after..did I get em all right?
… without voter fraud. 2020 really puts this “old truism” to the test.
RATS have a strategy.
Get the UN AGENDA 2030 too
I’ve never heard it before. But typical of the Democrats who, as Rush Limbaugh would say, get up in the morning and ask themselves, “How can we fool them today?”
The problem with this is that the Democrat party is in the hands of radicals, the precise articulation of whose policy aspirations makes voters run for the hills. They pretty much have to keep it vague.
You left out mandatory vaccinations for anyone who wants to breathe.
Marxism
Trump isn’t even following Project 2025.
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