All of the changes that President Trump is making to our government and our democracy are shocking,

but should not come as a surprise.

Remember this? Almost all of it, from the attacks on abortion rights, to the gutting of the civil service,

to the dismantling the Department of Education, it was all spelled out very clearly in Project 2025.

It was always accessible to the public. We knew what was in it. We knew who was

writing it, and we knew what they were planning. We knew that the architects of it were drafting

executive orders in anticipation of Trump's victory. We knew they were training a new class of

political appointees to outmaneuver checks and balances. Only 104 days into his presidency,

Donald Trump has already pushed through dozens of Project 2025 policies that we warned about on this show last year.

Logical design, right? It's not supposed to be we're doing what the public wants in the sense of,

you know, we have done focus grouping and we figured out

what the thing is that we're trying to maximize in order to, like, be most popular.

They believe they have a once-in-a-generation attempt to revolutionize, excuse me, revolutionize

the structure of the American government to move it into something that more closely resembles

something like Viktor Orban's regime in Hungary.

I don't think they would explicitly say this, but if you look at the policy details as they're laid out,

the end result of it is something that very much does resemble what political scientists might call

a competitive authoritarian regime, one in which the opposition is playing on fundamentally

loaded playing grounds.

And that is what's happening.

Right now, granted, they're doing it very badly.

If I were a foreign autocrat, I'd be a little bit embarrassed to say that these people are following my playbook.

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