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Mandate for Leadership: The 2025 Presidential Transition Project
Conservative organizations have cooperated to produce a new Manual for Leadership for each election cycle for the past 50 years. These groups are listed in the beginning of the manual and offer a comprehensive guide to the names of contemporary Conservative organizations. The manual published in 2005 is 142 pages long. The manual for 2025 is 942 pages long. The manual published in 2005 can be purchased from Amazon and is basically a checklist of right-wing talking points. For 2025 conservatives reveal plans that would remake the US federal government.
Plans that have already been carried out over the last decade include new voting restrictions, extreme gerrymandering, a campaign to convince Americans that voting is rigged, and that people with guns may be "protecting the vote" next time you go to the polls. Combined with media disinformation and a focus on Biden's age these conditions bode well, conservatives believe, for a Republican (Trump) to win in 2024. This time around conservatives decided that a detailed blueprint should be in place because the changes they want are extensive. Perhaps conservatives were not entirely satisfied with using Trump's gut as a guide, especially given the size and scope of the federal government. Will Trump, if elected, allow conservatives to put this plan into practice?
Trump complained constantly about checks from the DOJ on the chief executive (president), claiming absolute power. This plan leaves no room for doubt about the absolute power of an American conservative president. Trump also hated the grasp of regular order that is preserved by civil servants in government departments and agencies (too woke). This time around Trump or any Republican who becomes president will find conservative organizations ready to replace 50,000 Civil Service employees with employees hired by conservatives under the direction of the Heritage Foundation. You can go right now to a designated website to fill out an application. You can consult the Manual for job descriptions for each open position.
You don't have to read all 942 pages to see what Conservatives have planned for America. Let's consider the Introduction in this article, and the Foreword will be addressed in the following article. The Introduction was written by Paul Dans, Director of Project 2025 for the Heritage Foundation. He went to MIT and is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law. He served in the Trump administration as Chief of Staff and White House Liaison at the Office of Personnel Management and also as a Senior Advisor in the Office of Community Planning and Development at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
Here are some of the things the current manual says:
"We want you! The 2025 Presidential Transition Project is the conservative movement's unified effort to be ready for the next conservative Administration to govern at 12:00 noon, January 20, 2025. Welcome to the mission. By opening this book, you are now a part of it." (p. xiii)
"History teaches that a President's power to implement an agenda is at its apex during the Administration's opening days. To execute requires a well-conceived, coordinated unified plan and a trained and committed cadre of personnel to implement it. In recent election cycles, presidential candidates normally began transition planning in the late spring of the election year or even after the party's nomination was secured. That is too late. The federal government's complexity and growth advance at a seemingly logarithmic rate every four years. For conservatives to have a fighting chance to take on the Administrative State and reform our federal government, the work must start now. The entirety of this effort is to support the next conservative President, whoever he or she may be." (p. xiii)
[Commentary: If the "administrative state" were to completely change every four years there would be no continuity at all in our government. Changing the thousands of government personnel in 2025 suggests that conservatives plan to hold control of the federal government for a long time once they win it.]
"It's not 1980. In 2023 the game has changed. The long march of cultural Marxism through our institutions has come to pass. The federal government is a behemoth, weaponized against American citizens and conservative values, with freedom and liberty under siege as never before. The task at hand to reverse this tide and restore our Republic to its original moorings is too great for any one conservative policy shop to spearhead. It requires collective action of our movement. With the quickening approach of January 2025, we have two years and one chance to get it right. (p. xiv)
[Commentary- Perhaps this language does not send chills down your spine, but it has that effect on mine. Phrases like "the long march of cultural Marxism" and "the federal government is weaponized against American citizens and conservative values" imply the guilt of "liberals" at a time when the Nazi language is coming from the right and conservatives are threatening our "freedom and liberty," while both literally and figuratively weaponizing politics daily. The right always accuses the left of what they are doing.]