Back in April 2023, without a whole lot of fanfare, a conservative political operative

named Paul Danz laid out what was basically a political battle plan.

What we're doing is systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army of

aligned, trained, and essentially weaponized conservatives ready to do battle against the deep state.

It was called Project 2025, a 900-plus page blueprint for a future conservative president,

because it's worth flagging that at this point, President Trump had not yet locked down

the Republican nomination, to hit the ground running on day one. It outlined a

suite of very conservative policies that would, for example, outlaw the mailing of abortion pills

and abolish the Department of Education. It even suggests a return to the gold standard.

Democrats saw this as a vulnerability for Trump in the 2024 campaign, and so we saw social media

videos like this one from then-president and then-candidate Joe Biden.

Project 2025 will destroy America. Look it up.

We saw Saturday Night Lives Keenan Thompson on the stage at the Democratic National Convention

holding up a giant bound copy of the plan.

You ever seen a document that could kill a small animal and democracy at the same time?

Here it is.

After the plan became a Democratic talking point, Trump repeatedly disavowed Project 2025.

Here he is on Fox News.

I have no idea what it is. It's a group of extremely conservative people got together and wrote up a wish list of things, many of which I disagree with entirely. They're too severe.

But now that Trump is in office, releasing his own detailed plans, a lot of them are

strikingly similar to the ones laid out in Project 2025. And one of its chief architects was

just confirmed to head the critical office of management and budget. Here's Senate Minority Leader

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