Project 2025: The New Fascist Playbook

This is scary, thanks for bringing this up. I was a bit surprised you did not mention the "Powell Memorandum: Attack On American Free Enterprise System" which was potentially the first time the corporate/conservative bunch united in political ideology.

Jake

"Lookin at you, DHS" LOL

Marye Phillips

For more one can go to Spitfirelist at: https://spitfirelist.com/news/the-eyes-over-mike-johnson-the-cnps-texas-template-for-gods-power-grope/ The Eyes Over Mike Johnson: the CNP’s Texas Template for God’s Power Grope “I am not the Catholic candidate for president. I am the Democratic party’s candidate for president, who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me” Those were the kinds of words John F. Kennedy had to use when running for the president in 1960. Words that feel almost quaint in 2023. Painfully quaint, as we’re going to see in this post. Because as we’ve seen, Christian Nationalism isn’t simply on the rise in the United States. It’s already at the top, thanks in no small part to the decades long efforts of the Council for National Policy (CNP) and the myriad of groups operating under its theocratic umbrella. The Supreme Court is dominated by a hard right majority likely to be in place for decades to come at the same time Christian Nationalism is wholly mainstream inside the contemporary Republican Party. We even have the CNP’s planned mass purges — starting with the government but not ending there — under the ‘Schedule F’/Project 2025 label that is being openly reported and discussed in the news. The mask dropped a while ago. That’s all part of the grim context surrounding a series of reports around the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. The kind of reports that should raise serious questions about just how much influence the leading Christian Nationalist hold over new Speaker of the House. For starters, the whole intra-party kerfuffle that resulted in Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as speaker appears to have the CNP’s fingerprints all over it. Recall how it was the CNP-backed Freedom Caucus that orchestrated the giant intra-party showdown over Kevin McCarthy’s speakership nomination back in January with extensive CNP support. Flash forward to the new showdown over the Speakership, and it was again the Freedom Caucus leading ‘anti-establishment’ opposition, with CNP affiliates like Amy Kremer and Russ Vought again playing a supporting role. And at the end of it all, backbencher Mike Johnson emerges as the party’s consensus candidate with unanimous party support. Someone who happened to call CNP Vice President Kelly Shackelford his mentor during an October 2019 speech at a CNP conference. Johnson isn’t really hiding his theocratic sentiments."

Maricata

What a banger of a line to end on. Especially the last sentence. (before the, interestingly quite valid and enticing, sponsor segment)

Matthias Thiessen

We need countervailing power in the hands of the people.