Ask A Genius 993: Project 2025
Author(s): Rick Rosner and Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/07/01
Rick Rosner: It’s a disaster for America because of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. Are you aware of Project 2025?
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes, I am aware of Project 2025.
Rosner: For those who aren’t, it’s a conservative wish list, more than 900 pages long, detailing what they intend to do if Trump becomes president again. Now, they won’t be able to implement all of it, or perhaps even much of it, unless they also gain control of the House and the Senate. But even then, they’ll be somewhat limited since many actions require a 60-person majority in the Senate. However, they could still control almost all of the government, except for the Senate supermajority, but they’ll have the Supreme Court. If that happens, we’re in trouble. Have you looked at Project 2025 at all?
Jacobsen: Yes, I have.
Rosner: It aims to roll back everything they oppose. They want to reverse policies to pre-FDR times, dismantle what they call the welfare state, eliminate the EPA and the Department of Education, and make pornography and contraception largely illegal. It’s extreme and awful. The idea that we might let this happen due to incompetent Democratic campaign management is deeply concerning.
I believe Biden is quite competent, as do presidential historians. In two surveys conducted during his presidency, he ranked 19th in the first and 14th in the most recent. In contrast, Trump has been part of five surveys and was ranked the fourth-worst president in history, and he was voted the worst president ever twice. These historians understand how the presidency is supposed to work and are familiar with every president in history and their performance. The fact that we can’t beat the worst president in history and might allow him to do even worse than he did the first time is truly terrible.
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