What do you all think of Project 2025? I'm feeling scared about it and need some insight

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I've started reading into Project 2025 and the prospect of it scares me. Project 2025 is a policy plan from The Heritage Foundation, a major conservative think tank in DC. The plan outlines how a future conservative President can effectively override many democratic institutions and start turning the President into a totalitarian ruler. I've recently graduated with a PoliSci degree back in May, with most of my research was about democratic backsliding and totalitarianism, and I'm terrified at this prospect. They are currently running a campaign to gain around 50,000 conservative-aligned individuals to replace civil servants and immediately start writing anti-LGBT and other legislation after a conservative President has been elected.

https://www.project2025.org/

Is there any real cause for alarm? This feels like a potential end to democracy in the US. Sorry if this isn't acceptable content for this sub.

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Maybe im in the minority here but I don't think Project 2025 can happen at all. First off, how would this project be implemented? They say it'll be implemented day 1 but....how? They can't just say "these are our policies" and it just happens. There are laws that would need to be passed. Which leads to my second point. Most of the policies are outright against an existing decision or flat out unconstitutional. Most of this plan is dependent on the president having complete control over the US government. Basically getting rid of the Legslative and Judicial Branches entirely. That would require literally changing the constitution, which would require 35 states to agree to that. After the last Trump presidency, I HIGHLY doubt that will happen.

As another example, there is a part that says that they aim to make abortion illegal across the US. I don't believe the SC will go for that since their ruling last year wasn't an outright ban of abortion, it was giving it back to the states. I don't think thr SC will go further than that, and I'm thinking they wouldn't allow that. Along with the whole Christians being able to fire people for not being Christian? Literally violating the Civil Rights Act and that's one decision I would be VERY surprised for them to ever touch. I think even Clarence Thomas would have a problem with that one.

All in all, yes it's scary. It's horrible. But I highly doubt it could practically happen. Most of those laws won't see the light of day and the others won't even go into effect with how fast they'll be lawsuits on them. Maybe im crazy but I'm not as concerned as everyone else once I thought about it. I hope Maybe this offers some comfort to people. I could be totally wrong but I really doubt it.

No_soup_for_you_5280

I was looking for this comment. I’m with you - I don’t see a pathway to this, from a legal/constitutional perspective. Our checks and balances have held up so far, eight years after the start of the Trump experiment. Federal judges appointed by Trump aren’t necessarily voting in ways that are favorable to the GOP.