It’s one of the great ironies of our time that Trump—a completely irreligious man—is serving the interests of the most evangelical Christians. Ban abortion? Done. End LGBT rights? Certainly. Ban contraception? Soon. Crush unions? Soon. Eliminate any climate regulations? On the way. Defund public schools? Yes. Send public money to religious schools with no accountability? Yes.
Robert Reich describes Project 2025 and demonstrates that—no matter how much he pretends otherwise—it is Trump’s blueprint for the long-sought goals of far-right extremists.
Reich writes:
“Project 2025” is nothing short of a 900-page blueprint for guiding Donald Trump’s second term of office if he’s re-elected.
After the Heritage Foundation unveiled Project 2025 in April last year, when Trump was seeking the Republican nomination, he had no problem with it.
But now that the nation is turning its attention to the general election, Trump doesn’t want Project 2025 to draw attention. Its extremism is likely to turn off independents and moderates.
So Trump is now claiming he has “no idea who is behind” Project 2025.
This is another in a long line of Trump lies…
Trump has said he’d seek vengeance against those who have prosecuted him for his illegal acts. Project 2025 calls for the prosecution of district attorneys Trump doesn’t like, and the takeover of law enforcement in blue cities and states.
Project 2025 is, in short, the plan to implement what Donald Trump has said he wants to do if he’s re-elected.
Trump may want to distance himself from Project 2025 in order to come off less bonkers to independents and moderates, but he can’t escape it. The document embodies everything he stands for.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Name just one state that will ban contraception. A recent survey found that 92% of Republican voters believe that contraception is morally acceptable. Over 90% of Catholic couples have used contraception. Almost all other religious denominations approve of contraception; the few that don’t have no political power. 99+% of secular people approve of contraception. I repeat: name one state that will ban contraception. This is just one more example of the hysteria that is seen every day on this blog.
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Texas. Louisiana . Alabama, which has already decided that IVF is abortion. Possibly Utah. I live in Utah and can see that happening here.
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You are completely uninformed, just relying on caricatures that you want to believe about those states. Name just one state legislator anywhere who has proposed banning birth control pills, condoms, or IUDs. Start with Utah.
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How every senator voted on the Right to Contraception Act – Washington Post
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That WP article is very misleading. I challenge you to name one state that will ban the most common forms of contraception: birth control pills, condomes, and IUDs.
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Some States Already Are Targeting Birth Control • Stateline
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Cathy,
If Republicans gain control of Congress and ban contraception, what can states do to preserve it?
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I support the right to contraception, and I advocate using it – as do 90+% of Americans, including the vast majority of conservative voters. Heck, I support giving it for free to everyone. Set aside your ideology, caricatures, and preferred narratives and apply common sense. When overwhelming majorities of adults – in ALL fifty states – use/have used birth control, what is the likelihood that even one state will ever ban it?
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Diane,
Name even one Republican member of Congress who has proposed banning the most common forms of contraception. I will send $1000 to his/her opponent for the upcoming election. The discussion here is just mindless hysteria.
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Why did so many Republicans vote to ban contraception? Why do Republicans insist that women should not have abortions? Why do so many Republicans want to impose their views about IVF on others? I know people whose children were born by IVF. Wonderful children. The parents (gay men, mostly) have another 10-12 frozen embryos. Are those people? Should their parents be forced to find surrogates and birth another dozen children? Should the government pay them for forced births? I think the government should not impose religious views on people.
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Everyone here dodges my challenge to name even one state that will ban contraception. 24/7 hysteria.
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But the rest of the list looks plausible to me for many states, so I wouldn’t get hung up on the sideshow of contraception.
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something went wrong with my comment. meant to say that I agree it’s extremely unlikely that any state bans contraception. And that even if a state did that, that might be a good thing in the long run, as it would create a huge backlash and force the ruling republican legislators to amend their policy or lose their seats.
But the rest of the list looks plausible to me for many states, so I wouldn’t get hung up on the sideshow of contraception.
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in states like Utah, it doesn’t matter how unpopular the bill is. It gets passed anyway and they get reelected as long as they want, because they have an R next to their name.
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TOW,
I don’t understand why people vote against their self-interest.
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See vouchers, for example.
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Vouchers are WAY more popular than banning contraception, though.
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Cathy Patterson: Keep watching. But even if you are right about the contraception issue (and I think not), you read this blog’s multiple issues and think people here are hysterical? Do you think you might be a little deranged, or at least mentally cribbed yourself evidenced by your making such a broad-brushed claim?
I do. CBK
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Cathy Patterson: And when did the people on this blog become your researchers? But a brief google search revealed this. You might want to check it out:
June 5, 2024 at 2:14 p.m. The Senate on Wednesday afternoon voted not to advance a bill that would create a federal right to access contraception. The procedural measure, which required 60 votes, failed as all but two Republicans present voted against it.Jun 5, 2024
How every senator voted on the Right to Contraception Act
Complements of CBK:
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What passes for the mainstream in the Repugnican Party in the age of Donald Trump, pathological liar, is a Janus-faced denialism about targeting contraception at the same time that this party is outlawing or trying to outlaw the morning after pill and other contraceptives that by some weird stretch of their diseased imaginations they are classifying as abortifacients all across this country. The party just dropped, temporarily, its demand for a federal ban on abortion only because it knows that it will lose this election if it doesn’t change its messaging there. OF COURSE, Donald will say ANYTHING if he thinks it will get him elected because he is a complete liar. This is the guy who spent a year crowing about how he ended Roe v. Wade and who insisted that women who have abortions need to be punished with, say, jail.
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project 2025 needs to be understood against the backdrop of Steve Bannon’s declaration that he is thinking of the view of what happens after Trump. If Bannon does not scare you, perhaps Stephen Miller will.
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When Traitor Trump opens his mouth, even to grunt… or breathe, expect a lie.
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Trump claims to have no idea what the 2025 Project is and that some of the ideas are ridiculous and abysmal.
Such powers! Just like the Amazing Kreskin!
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Look further into trump’s Agenda 47 Trump has unveiled an agenda of his own. He just doesn’t mention it much. – The Washington Post
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Well said!!!
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