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Trump is now trying to downplay Project 2025 (www.salon.com)

submitted 5 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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Project 2025 (and its auxiliary Trump’s “Agenda 47”) are a plan by right-wing extremists and other authoritarians to end America’s multiracial democracy and to replace it with a White Christian nationalist plutocracy.

A conspiracy is a plan by two or more people operating in private to advance their interests and goals above those of some other person(s) — or in this context the American people. Project 2025 is not a conspiracy. These plans are exhaustively detailed in a book titled “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” and are regularly discussed at conferences, in interviews, and in other public forums. Project 2025 and its related plans, like Agenda 47, were not hatched overnight. As author and journalist Anne Nelson and other experts have been extensively documenting, Project 2025 and the other right-wing extremists’ and neofascists' plans to end America’s multiracial democracy have been years and decades in development

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[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The argument that Hillary is responsible for Trump is pretty ridiculous. The Republican primary for 2016 was a clown car full of losers nobody liked and Trump won through a series of plurality victories because the GOP is full of power hungry narcissists.

Notably in 2020, early on it was looking like the Democrats were going to nominate Bernie in the same way. He was winning early primary contests by plurality. But the Democrats circled their wagons and lined up behind Biden.

Hillary Clinton barely had a grip on the Democratic party in 2016. She lost significant mindshare and support to a relative unknown at the time (Bernie). She certainly wasn't powerful enough to pick who she ran against.

Biden also didn't to my knowledge discuss the Republican primary very much if at all. For a while he was giving Trump the Voldemort treatment and not even referring to him by name.

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago

The argument that Hillary is responsible for Trump is pretty ridiculous.

Yes, but no. Her campaign and the DNC actively worked to elevate Trump in hopes that he'd be unelectable so that they wouldn't have to compromise with the Left. The "pied piper" tactic that the Dems are now continually using is extremely high risk but they would rather see fascism than leftward movement.

[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

She and her super Deligates and the DNC absolutely stole Bernie's momentum.

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