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And yeah, shooting a presidential candidate because of some conspiracy theories that involve a president dismantling 'modern life' is unhinged. Unless modern life is a 4 year American political cycle. I remember the same doom posting back in 2016 so it really doesn't have much bite anymore, especially since I'm not American and not knee deep in the batshit rhetoric that permeate american politics
Project 2025 is a manifesto of American ideological conservatism; Trump is not an ideological conservative. He's happy to use them to get ahead, but he has no qualms about throwing them under the metaphorical bus whenever he thinks it is in his political self-interest to do so. And they know they'll do this to him – he's done it to them before and he'll do it to them again – but they don't really have anywhere else to go.
Case in point: the recent GOP platform, where Trump single-handedly ripped out a big chunk of the anti-abortion language and anti-marriage equality language – because he is convinced (not without good reason) that stuff is going to cost him with the swing voters he needs to win. And many religious/social conservatives aren't happy [0] – but is anybody listening to them?
[0] https://www.ncregister.com/cna/worst-platform-i-ve-ever-seen...
Sure, not Trump's strong point at all. He didn't even take part in the decades long slow campaign to stack the Supreme Court and overthrow Roe V. Wade.
Point is, he took part by taking advice from the very people that laid out Project 2025 and he will again - it's a prepacked hit the ground running scheme to solve many of the gripes Trump had last time around.
Lousy public servants stopping Trump from doing his thing? No longer a problem, that's an early recommended fix from Project 2025 to redefine how firing and hiring works.
Etc. etc.
Trump isn't ideologically opposed to abortion rights. He just gave the conservative base what they wanted, it appears without fully thinking through the consequences. And then when he was hit with those consequences, he discovered he didn't like them.
And now he's ripping the national abortion ban out of the GOP platform, and pro-lifers are upset, but they just have to take it, because they've got no one else to turn to: https://www.axios.com/2024/07/09/abortion-ban-gop-rnc-platfo...
> Point is, he took part by taking advice from the very people that laid out Project 2025 and he will again - it's a prepacked hit the ground running scheme to solve many of the gripes Trump had last time around.
I agree he's probably going to do some of the things they are asking. Something like making it easier to fire federal bureaucrats who are trying to oppose his agenda from within – I can see why that would appeal to him. But other stuff in Project 2025 probably doesn't.
Also, having very briefly skim-read Project 2025, much it just sounds like a return to the policies of the Trump I or Bush Jr administrations on various issues (e.g. reinstating various abortion-related funding bans which the Biden administration reversed). Which is the typical yo-yo of American public policy – a lot of stuff gets reversed continuously depending on which party is in power.