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Outward: Project 2025 with Orion Rummler

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🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week Bryan sits down with reporter Orion Rummler to break down Project 2025, conservative 920-page policy blueprint for a second Trump term. Orion’s article ‘What is Project 2025? Here’s the Heritage Foundation’s vision for a second Trump term’ looks at the widespread impact of these ideas for women, LGBTQ+ rights, families, education and the workforce. In this episode, we focus on the impact on LGBTQ rights and the danger of turning transness from a state of being to an ‘ideology’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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UK residents, T's and C supply. Please apply. Hello and welcome to Outward Slate's LGBT-Q-Q podcast. I'm Brian Lauter, editor at

0:41.0

Slate. Biden is out, Kamala is Brat, and I don't know about you,

0:46.0

but I sure am feeling a lot more hopeful about the future of these United States

0:49.6

than I was a week ago.

0:51.8

But that hope depends on the Democrats and voters fending off a Republican

0:56.1

takeover of the government in November because that result would not only mean a second

1:00.0

Trump presidency but also the beginning of something called Project 2025.

1:05.2

If you haven't noticed that mysterious phrase popping up in the news yet, you will, because

1:09.1

the Dems and the left generally are finally getting the word out about this thing.

1:13.1

It's a 920 page document put together under the aegis of the Ultra Conservative

1:17.1

Heritage Foundation that lays out a day one policy plan for the next Republican

1:21.7

White House, whether it's occupied by Trump or J.D. Vance, gross, or someone else, and a GOP-led Congress unchecked by a corrupt Supreme Court.

1:31.4

The goals and proposals laid out within Project 2025 are a truly

1:35.0

radical remaking of American life and the authoritarian Christian nationalist mold

1:39.6

on everything from reproductive rights and divorce to taxes the environment immigration and education.

1:45.2

And don't worry, the architects of Project 2025 didn't forget about queer and trans people.

1:49.7

In fact, they have some particularly vile things in store for us.

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