Project 2025 threatens democratic norms
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the beat. I'm Katie Fang in for Ari Melber. We're just a few hours away from that July |
| 0:05.9 | fourth holiday commemorating our country's independence from an all-powerful king and we're |
| 0:10.7 | still coming to terms with the fallout from Monday's Supreme Court decision vastly |
| 0:14.8 | expanding the powers of the President. |
| 0:17.9 | Trump seizing on the decision which bolsters and even worse legally protects his worst impulses while his allies |
| 0:25.1 | tout the authoritarian future that they want to build if Trump wins again. |
| 0:30.0 | Tonight one of them raising alarms for saying the quiet part out loud. |
| 0:36.6 | We are going to win. |
| 0:38.2 | We're in the process of taking this country back. |
| 0:40.4 | We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be. |
| 0:46.0 | That ominous warning was from Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, |
| 0:51.0 | the right-wing think Tank that created Project 2025, a 900-page |
| 0:57.0 | extremist blueprint for a possible second Trump term. |
| 1:01.4 | The outline includes detailed plans to expand presidential |
| 1:04.8 | powers even more, including restructuring the Department of Justice, purging |
| 1:10.3 | federal government employees and replacing them with tens of thousands |
| 1:14.0 | of Trump loyalists, dismantling the Department of Education and banning abortion |
| 1:18.5 | medication. The Heritage Foundation leader has not been shy about promoting this plan. |
| 1:27.0 | President Trump is going to make decisions about policy in his administration if he wins. |
| 1:32.0 | Project 2025 is something that's going to |
| 1:34.4 | transcend the next four years, the next 10 years. We're going to fire someone and the |
| 1:38.2 | number needs to be more than 50,000. Abortion is not health care. We need to |
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