Amazing how the actual writing and analyses of Project 2025 don’t actually cover up the religious zealotry, anti-diversity batshittery, conspiracy theory wingnuttery, unconstitutional and anti-democratic (small D) crap that’s baked in. Try as they have to cover it with a thick layer of ethics and efficiency frosting, it still stinks.
Senator Angus King, independent from Maine, had this to say about one of Project 2025’s main architects:
“Now, the nominee before us today is one of the ring leaders of this assault, one of the ring leaders of the assault on our Constitution. He believes in a presidency of virtually unlimited powers. He's written extensively about this. And explicitly rejects, for example, the exclusive power of congress to authorize and appropriate funds for the operation of the government. He espouses the discredited and illegal theory that the president has the power to selectively impound funds appropriated by congress, thereby rendering the famous power of the purse a nullity. I am not talking about the specifics and I will touch on A.I.D and other issues, but what I'm really worried about are the implications, the structural implications for our freedom and government of what's happening here.
“We have to keep our eye on the big picture. Not all the confusion and smoke that's going on over the last couple of weeks. Mr. Vought is one of the principal authors of the infamous Project 2025 which the president strangely hadn't heard of during the campaign but now seems to be the essential guideline for his presidency. Project 2025 is nothing less than a blueprint for the shredding of the constitution and the transition of our country to authoritarian rule. He's the last person who should be put in the heart of the operation of our government.
“Again, this isn't about politics. This isn't about policy. This isn't about Republican versus Democrat. This is about tampering with the structure of our government, which will ultimately undermine its ability to protect the freedom of our citizens. If our defense of the Constitution is gone, there's nothing left to us.”
I think his speech was brilliant, and I hope some of his Republican colleagues took the time and effort to listen to it.
https://www.king.senate.gov/newsroom...itution-itself
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