{"id":32209,"date":"2024-03-09T12:12:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T20:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=32209"},"modified":"2024-03-09T12:12:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T20:12:25","slug":"project-2025-a-blueprint-to-end-democracy-multiculturalism-and-even-recreational-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/project-2025-a-blueprint-to-end-democracy-multiculturalism-and-even-recreational-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"PROJECT 2025: A BLUEPRINT TO END DEMOCRACY, MULTICULTURALISM, AND EVEN RECREATIONAL SEX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MON, 3\/4\/2024 – BY\u00a0CARL GIBSON<\/a> (Occupy.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Former President Donald Trump is running on a number of frightening policies, but he isn\u2019t the boogeyman \u2014 he\u2019s just the boogeyman\u2019s chosen tool for the current moment. If he doesn\u2019t win the presidential election in November, the septuagenarian facing 91 felony charges who eats poorly<\/a> and doesn\u2019t exercise<\/a> eventually won\u2019t be around, and someone else will rise up to take his place. And whoever that person is will be the one to usher in a frightening new America led by an authoritarian Christofascist government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his first term, Trump did plenty of damage by appointing far-right judges to lifetime positions and through the various policies enacted by the cabinet secretaries he appointed. But he was largely hamstrung from making the kind of large, sweeping changes he sought by the resistance of America\u2019s institutions, having no sway over the tens of thousands of invisible government employees who would actually be the ones to push the buttons and shuffle the paperwork. He won\u2019t make the same mistake twice. And the far-right Heritage Foundation is making sure of that, whether the next Republican president is Donald Trump, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, or someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only thing possibly more frightening than the details of Heritage\u2019s Project 2025<\/a> presidential transition plan is that its monstrous proposals are not being plotted in secretive closed-door meetings, but have already been published and made freely available online<\/a> (PDF link) for anyone to peruse. Heritage feels so confident about the righteousness of its agenda that it is publicly inviting the American public to critique it. And based on the details that have emerged, Heritage fully plans for Trump \u2014 or the next GOP president \u2014 to have all the tools necessary to demolish multicultural democracy and establish a white, Christian ethnostate that imposes a gender apartheid not unlike the Taliban\u2019s Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PROJECT 2025 WOULD CREATE A FAR-RIGHT \u201cDEEP STATE\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In late 2020, just before Donald Trump was voted out of office, he passed an executive order dubbed \u201cSchedule F<\/a>,\u201d which was promptly rescinded by President Joe Biden shortly after he took office. Schedule F would have removed numerous employment protections for the federal civil service and allowed Trump to greatly increase the number of political appointees in his administration from roughly 5,000 to approximately 54,000. One key part of Project 2025 is its \u201cpersonnel<\/a>\u201d platform: Heritage is still currently accepting resumes from MAGA acolytes who want to work under the next Republican president and has already pre-screened roughly 4,000 applicants<\/a> as of late November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The criteria Heritage is using to weigh the credentials of prospective new civil service workers isn\u2019t based on any actual merit \u2014 like past experience in public service or crafting legislation \u2014 but on how loyal applicants are to the MAGA movement\u2019s political goals. Packing federal agencies with tens of thousands of far-right toadies would effectively establish the \u201cdeep state\u201d Trump has railed against throughout his political career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times obtained and published the questionnaire<\/a> Heritage is sending to interested applicants, which asks them not about past accomplishments or concrete policy wins, but primarily about their ideological leanings. Applicants are asked questions like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat part of Candidate Trump\u2019s campaign message most appealed to you and why?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBriefly describe your political evolution. What thinkers, authors, books, or political leaders influenced you and led you to your current beliefs? What political commentator, thinker or politician best reflects your views?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHave you ever appeared in the media to comment on Candidate Trump, President Trump or other personnel or policies of the Trump administration?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a> also obtained the questionnaire from a source described as \u201can alumnus of the Trump White House,\u201d who told the publication that the questions are meant to gauge if an applicant has been \u201cred-pilled,\u201d and \u201cto see that you\u2019re listening to Tucker [Carlson], and not pointing to the Reagan revolution or any of that George W. Bush stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump campaign senior advisor Chris LaCivita stressed that Project 2025 is independent of the Trump campaign itself, which would announce its own transition plan in the event Trump wins the general election. However, John McEntee, who was the director of the Presidential Personnel Office in Trump\u2019s White House, is a senior advisor to Project 2025<\/a>, which suggests that at least its personnel screening is in line with Trump\u2019s own goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PROJECT 2025 WOULD SEEK TO END A MULTICULTURAL US<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Should Trump be sent back to the White House, his former top immigration advisor Stephen Miller (an outed white nationalist<\/a>) recently laid out how Trump would begin a mass deportation plan \u201cwithin moments\u201d of taking office in January of 2025. Ronald Brownstein \u2014 a senior editor for the Atlantic \u2014 tweeted excerpts<\/a> from a speech Miller gave to National Rifle Association activists about how Trump would create \u201cstanding facilities\u201d to detain immigrants by the thousands \u201cwhere planes are moving off the runway constantly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller elaborated that in order to pull off his unprecedented mass detention and deportation program, the Trump administration would deputize national guardsmen from Republican-controlled states to conduct immigration raids in conjunction with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), and other agencies, along with \u201cstate and local sheriffs as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven using conservative numbers, I mean, you\u2019re going to be looking at 10 million illegals Biden would have let in,\u201d Miller said<\/a> when assessing the number of deportations Trump would pursue. He added that he would also seek to remove \u201cpeople who were let in on visas but whose views, attitudes, and beliefs make them ineligible to stay in the country.\u201d This suggests that the Trump administration could round up and deport any immigrant, legal or otherwise, who would be deemed as undesirable based on their political leanings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller\u2019s statements echo a November 2023 article<\/a> in the New York Times, which reported that Trump would follow \u201cthe Eisenhower model\u201d to pursue his mass deportation efforts. That remark was a reference to Eisenhower\u2019s \u201cOperation Wetback<\/a>,\u201d which was a campaign that rounded up, detained, and deported as many as 1.3 million Mexican immigrants \u2014 including naturalized US citizens. History.com described the effort as a \u201cshort-lived\u201d campaign that leaned heavily on racial stereotypes (the operation\u2019s name includes a racial epithet) to convince Americans that Mexicans were dirty, disease-ridden, and irresponsible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuring Operation Wetback, tens of thousands of immigrants were shoved into buses, boats and planes and sent to often-unfamiliar parts of Mexico, where they struggled to rebuild their lives,\u201d History.com wrote. \u201cIn Chicago, three planes a week were filled with immigrants and flown<\/a> to Mexico. In Texas, 25 percent of all of the immigrants deported were crammed<\/a> onto boats later compared to slave ships, while others died of sunstroke, disease and other causes while in custody.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Project 2025\u2019s 900+ page blueprint, the section describing reforms to the Department of Homeland Security was written by Ken Cuccinelli \u2014 Trump\u2019s far-right ex-DHS official whose appointment was later ruled illegal<\/a> by a federal judge. Cuccinelli laid out how he would reshuffle the multiple departments within the agency, creating a Border Security and Immigration Agency (BSIA) that would handle all border and immigration-related functions. Cuccinelli wrote that the newly established BSIA would have more than 100,000 employees, making it the third-largest government agency by manpower. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with calling for more funding and resources to support efforts to round up, detain, and deport large numbers of immigrants, Cuccinelli also called for repealing the Temporary Protected Status designation (used for so-called \u201cdreamers,\u201d whose parents brought them across the border as young children) and for the DHS to assume jurisdiction over unaccompanied minors, as opposed to the Department of Health and Human Services. It\u2019s likely that Cuccinelli would be on Trump\u2019s shortlist for DHS secretary, meaning many of these policies could come to fruition if Trump won the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PROJECT 2025 WOULD END \u201cRECREATIONAL SEX\u201d AND CREATE GENDER APARTHEID<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In May of 2023, the Heritage Foundation\u2019s official X\/Twitter account posted a video<\/a> of a speaker at a panel discussion talking about how she wanted to see \u201ca feminist movement against the [birth control] pill, and for\u2026 returning the consequentiality to sex.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConservatives have to lead the way in restoring sex to its true purpose, & ending recreational sex & senseless use of birth control pills,\u201d Heritage tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The speaker\u2019s eyebrow-raising statement and Heritage\u2019s endorsement of it should be taken seriously, especially in the context of Project 2025\u2019s key figures and their past public statements on topics involving sex, marriage, birth, abortion, and fertility treatments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court\u2019s overturning of constitutionally guaranteed abortion rights in its 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/a> ruling was a contributor<\/a> to the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that stated frozen embryos have the same rights as human babies. That decision prompted numerous in-vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics in Alabama to suspend providing the service, for Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall to state that his office wouldn\u2019t prosecute<\/a> recipients or providers of the treatment, and for top Republicans like Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) to reiterate their support for IVF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, these commitments to upholding access to IVF treatments are just empty words when compared to Republicans\u2019 actions. Even though the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) issued a memo urging Republican US Senate candidates to support IVF access, NRSC president Sen. Steve Daines (R-Montana) cosponsored a 2021 bill<\/a> that would effectively halt IVF by stating that human personhood begins at the moment of fertilization. Because IVF clinics discard unused embryos, this would be labeled as \u201ckilling\u201d a person, which makes IVF unworkable. And while a previous version of the senate bill included a carveout specifically for IVF treatment, the House of Representatives\u2019 version does not. And that bill was cosponsored by 125 Republicans<\/a>, including Speaker Johnson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when delving beneath the surface, Republicans\u2019 plans for controlling women\u2019s bodies in 2025 and beyond has been well-documented. Politico recently reported<\/a> that Russell Vought, who leads the influential Center for Renewing America (CRA) think tank \u2014 an official coalition partner of Project 2025 \u2014 is seeking to implement a slew of Christian nationalist policies in a second Trump administration. Aside from wanting to reverse FDA approval of abortion drugs like Mifepristone and defunding Planned Parenthood, and ending policies that \u201csubsidize single motherhood,\u201d the CRA may have even more extreme policy proposals that it has sought to conceal from the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico reporter Heidi Pryzybyla found several deleted social media posts<\/a> from William Wolfe, who is a visiting fellow at CRA<\/a>, in which he called for an end to sex education in schools, no-fault divorce, and even surrogacy. Wolfe previously served as a deputy assistant secretary of defense in Trump\u2019s pentagon, and it\u2019s a near-certainty that Project 2025 would place him high up in the Trump administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The publicly stated views of so many far-right figures connected to Project 2025 hints at the conservative movement\u2019s ultimate goal as far as it concerns the reproductive rights of individuals capable of pregnancy. Conservatives don’t merely seek to regulate uteruses, but rather want to punish sexual independence altogether. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the speaker alluded to in the video Heritage posted last May, the far right wants sex to come with consequences \u2014 usually in the form of a pregnancy that a sexually independent person is forced to carry to term in the absence of legal abortions. Notably, even Nikki Haley endorsed the view<\/a> that embryos are children, and it’s likely a Haley presidency would closely resemble a second Trump term if Project 2025 is still involved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By effectively blocking one full half of the country from having \u201crecreational sex,\u201d the far right is actually seeking to implement what the United Nations called \u201cgender apartheid<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWomen and girls in Afghanistan are experiencing severe discrimination that may amount to gender persecution \u2013 a crime against humanity \u2013 and be characterized as gender apartheid, as the de facto authorities appear to be governing by systemic discrimination with the intention to subject women and girls to total domination,\u201d UN special rapporteur Richard Bennett wrote in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN used that phrase to refer to the Taliban\u2019s subjugation of women in Afghanistan, but that term could very well apply to an America in which individuals capable of pregnancy are punished for being sexually independent, are trapped in marriages they don\u2019t want should no-fault divorce be banned, are forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to full term due to abortion being criminalized and abortion drugs being taken off the shelves, and who can\u2019t have children other than by being married to and having sex with a man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Americans cast their ballots this fall, they should do so knowing that their vote won\u2019t just be for a candidate, but for two very different versions of America. One version is one in which the \u201cNew Colossus\u201d poem on the Statue of Liberty welcomes \u201chuddled masses yearning to breathe free,\u201d and guarantees basic human rights for all men and women, of all cultures and backgrounds. Another version is a dystopian society in which white, conservative, Christian men sit at the top of society, with all others beneath them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHICH VERSION WILL WE CHOOSE?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Carl Gibson is a journalist whose work has been published in CNN, USA TODAY, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, Barron\u2019s, Business Insider, the Independent, and NPR, among others, Follow him on Bluesky @crgibs.bsky.social. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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