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Project 2025 … and 1921, and 1973, and 1981

Terrifying blueprints for the next Republican presidency are a quadrennial tradition.

This year’s Mandate for Leadership is the ninth edition in the series.

I’ve never seen the “Mandate V” and “Mandate VI” volumes from 2000 and 2005, so I can’t say how much they contributed to George W. Bush’s own unique contributions to the deconstruction of the administrative state, and the debacles of deregulation

But I can report, thanks to Wikipedia, that the one in 2005 was a mere 156 pages,
because “according to Heritage, the shorter length reflected that
policies and ideas from the early Mandate editions had, by the time of this publication, largely become part of the mainstream debate.”

So what of this edition in the series?

What is same old same old, what’s uniquely MAGA? What’s an accumulation of decades of momentum, what’s a veering from the Reaganite course?

Where is the “Special Assignment Technique” buried within, only this time for some constitutionally fastidious attorney general or Geneva Convention–besotted four-star general?

Bottom line:
How much of it renders reasonable the fears we’ve been hearing, that this time, they finally have the federal government figured out?

👉There’s plenty. 👈

Tune in next week. Same wing-nutty time, same wing-nutty channel.

https://prospect.org/politics/2024-07-10-project-2025-republican-presidencies-tradition/