2025: Mandate for Leadership
February 3, 2025 5:32 PM - Subscribe
The most influential book of 2025 is the Heritage Foundation's 2025: Mandate for Leadership.
The link is to the free pdf file available on the Project 2025 website.
I've read summaries of this book before the 2024 US election. Now it's upon us, so it's time to read the thing itself.
It's not a genre I'm familiar with, so here are some links I'm using to prepare.
Molly Jong-Fast interviews historian Thomas Zimmer who has written about Project 2025 on his Substack Democracy Americana including this 4 part series. Zimmer describes the parts thus:
Pro Publica obtained the private training videos (Youtube playlist) for the newly hired loyalist personnel intended to replace career federal workers.
The link is to the free pdf file available on the Project 2025 website.
I've read summaries of this book before the 2024 US election. Now it's upon us, so it's time to read the thing itself.
It's not a genre I'm familiar with, so here are some links I'm using to prepare.
Molly Jong-Fast interviews historian Thomas Zimmer who has written about Project 2025 on his Substack Democracy Americana including this 4 part series. Zimmer describes the parts thus:
Part I focused on the ideas, ideologies, and grievances fueling the project – the radicalizing siege mentality on the Right.One of the co-authors Russell Vought was interviewed (single link Democracy Now! Youtube channel) Democracy Now! by undercover journalists from the Centre for Climate Reporting
Part II offered a detailed dissection of the concrete policy agenda and strategies to impose a reactionary vision on the country.
Part III Project 2025 in the broader context of the Right’s history since the 1930s and explored why a second Trump presidency would be operating under completely different conditions from the first – conditions that make it much more likely for these radical plans to succeed.
Finally, in Part IV, I dove deeper into Trump’s relationship to Project 2025 and why these radical plans represent the self-mobilization of a “conservative” establishment that is fundamentally in agreement with the extremist Right.
Pro Publica obtained the private training videos (Youtube playlist) for the newly hired loyalist personnel intended to replace career federal workers.
Especially since they're claiming a narrow victory driven more from Democratic voters staying home is a "mandate," because of course they are.
posted by Gelatin at 6:17 AM on February 4 [2 favorites]
posted by Gelatin at 6:17 AM on February 4 [2 favorites]
"mandate," because of course they are.
posted by Gelatin at 6:17 on February 4
Mandate for Leadership is a series that the Heritage Foundation has published since 1980. Their mandate comes not from earthly election results, but apparently from their certainty in the rightness of their beliefs.
posted by otherchaz at 5:10 AM on February 5
posted by Gelatin at 6:17 on February 4
Mandate for Leadership is a series that the Heritage Foundation has published since 1980. Their mandate comes not from earthly election results, but apparently from their certainty in the rightness of their beliefs.
posted by otherchaz at 5:10 AM on February 5
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