Is project 2025 in the room with us right now, Axios?
Donald Trump’s victory has revived all kinds of the expected levels of hysteria. If you were to believe all the ridiculous takes, you’d think right around the corner is the Fourth Reich, the Handmaid’s Tale, Idiocracy, and Star Wars all wrapped into one.
Of course, none of that is true and things will go along as they always have: mostly fine with some unforeseen bumps in the road to come.
Don’t tell Axios that, though. To them, Trump is Emperor Palpatine and Project 2025 is the Death Star; Project 2025 being the Heritage Foundation’s list of plans and reforms they penned prior to the election in the hopes that Trump would win back the White House.
“The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which President-elect Trump’s allies have touted as the incoming administration’s agenda, outlines vast plans for rolling back rights and protections for LGBTQ+ people,” Axios writes.
“The big picture: If implemented, Project 2025 would reshape the fabric of American life by expanding the power of the presidency, shrinking the social safety net and rolling back rights for a vast swath of Americans.”
They continue, “Project 2025 attempts to virtually erase LGBTQ+ people from federal protections altogether. It would also have broad implications for people of color and women across the country.”
It does this, they say, by…deleting words from law and clawing back precedent set by a Title VII-related court ruling.
The article then follows up with a scary pull-quote from the Project 2025 document, which reads, “The President should direct agencies to focus their enforcement of sex discrimination laws on the biological binary meaning of sex.”
EGADS!
Listen, whether you like it or not, that the meaning of sex has clear, definable, and binary characteristics is a view that up until five minutes ago was unquestioned across the country. And based on the results of the election, the vast majority of the country still believes in those biological facts — not some lefty hocus pocus claiming a zillion different genders.
Elections have consequences and Trump will get some of what he wants done, though based on how his operation distanced itself from Project 2025 during the campaign, there’s little sign he will be its devotee anyway.
But even so, there is zero chance this whole set of policy ideas makes its way into law.
Do these people realize just how difficult it is to do anything in the federal government? And that’s by design. But so few of these journalists have even a basic understanding of our country’s founding principles.
Calm the heck down, y’all. And by that, I mean the hysterical media.
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