Project 2025: a blueprint for a conservative takeover
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
What would a second Trump presidency look like? One possible vision is laid out in Project 2025, a plan by the Heritage Foundation that’s ringing alarm bells with celebrities, activists, and the Biden administration. It aims to transform the federal government. What vision does it lay out for the future of US democracy?
In this episode:
- Reed Galen (@reedgalen), Co-founder of The Lincoln Project
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This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker, Chloe K. Li, and Ashish Malhotra, with Duha Mosaad, Manahil Naveed, Mohammed Zain Shafi Khan, Veronique Eshaya, and our host Malika Bilal.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, what is Project 2025? |
| 0:13.0 | It's not a secret. Look it up. They are attacking our most vulnerable citizens. |
| 0:19.0 | Why one proposed blueprint for a second Trump term is raising alarms. |
| 0:23.6 | The Project 2025 plan is not a game. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is the take. |
| 0:31.6 | Time for us to play chess, not checkers. |
| 0:40.4 | It's about making decisions that will affect us as human beings. |
| 0:45.5 | That was American actress Taraji P. Henson at the ceremony for the BET Awards last week, talking about Project 2025. |
| 0:53.7 | After her comments, the phrase started trending on X. |
| 0:57.0 | Project 2025, it's a plan that could dramatically change the United States government if it's enacted. |
| 1:03.0 | Something called Project 2025, which I know sounds like a sexy CW sci-fi drama, |
| 1:09.0 | starring Ashanti, Chad Michael Murray, and Turtle from Entourage. |
| 1:12.2 | But incredibly, it's even worse than that. |
| 1:14.9 | Project 2025 includes a massive overhaul to the federal government as we know it. |
| 1:19.2 | One that would turn the Justice Department against critics, deport millions of people in the U.S. |
| 1:24.3 | illegally. |
| 1:25.2 | Fire, perhaps tens of thousands of government staff deemed insufficiently loyal. |
| 1:30.3 | Project 2025 is also known as the mandate for leadership, the conservative promise. It's a 900-page |
| 1:37.9 | plan prepared by a conservative think tank called the Heritage Foundation, one they hope will be |
| 1:43.2 | adopted by Donald Trump if he wins |
| 1:45.6 | the next election. But while it's getting a lot of attention right now, this plan isn't new. |
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