An Alarming Playbook for the Next Trump Administration: What to Know About Project 2025 and Why You Should Care!

Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
The Polis
Published in
5 min readJul 8, 2024

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Heritage Foundation

On July 3, Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat , author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. commented that “one of the most alarming things” about “Project 2025” is the blatant admission that Donald Trump did not accomplish everything he intended to in his first administration. “They got a slow start […] so their codeword is ‘day one,’” Ben-Ghiat told MSNBC’s Katie Phang of the think-tank’s proposal document, which is assumed to represent a considerable percentage of a Trump’s policies should he be successful in earning a second term. The distinguished New York University historian further stated, “Already, politically vetted people are in place and will immediately implement the plans if Trump wins.”

Earlier this year, I wrote a column mentioning Project 2025 and the alarming agenda it intends to enact. Fortunately, it appears that more American have become aware of this treatise, also known as an almost 900-page document vowing to rework the executive branch: every department, every agency, and every office. Composed with extensive articles by multiple conservative thinkers and activists under the tutelage of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the 900-page handbook declares itself as part of a “unified effort to be ready for the next conservative…

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Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
The Polis

Historian, Syndicated Columnist, Public Speaker, Social-Cultural Critic. Professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies, at East Tennessee State University.