MY TURN: "Project 2025" is a danger to democracy

The much discussed, but little understood, “Project 2025: The 2025 Presidential Transition Project, A Mandate for Leadership”, must be engaged and rebutted. It is is a danger. Prepared by the Heritage Foundation as a conservative roadmap for a new Trump administration, the 920-page, 180-day playbook offers a mandate for multiple changes in federal government policy. Forty-four pages, about 5%, are devoted to education. Those pages allege a radical left-wing bias in university teaching, without evidence, and continue from there.

Project 2025, an openly right-wing agenda for America’s future, would require a selective teaching of American history by omitting mention of race and slavery. It also would substitute religious belief for scientific evidence in studying weather forecasting and environmental change. It would reclassify federal scientists as political appointees, subject to partisan tests. It would substitute political tests based on a notion of Christian Nationalism for professional expertise, stifling critical thinking and free speech. The science of evolution would be in question. It would diminish adherence to the Freedom of Information Act that supports the public’s right to know what its government is doing.

These proposals are radical, not conservative. I explore these themes in this issue of MY TURN: https://theisland360.com/opinions-100/my-turn-project-2025-is-a-danger-to-democracy/

Thank you, Bob