There are lots of Federal agencies under the Executive Branch, The heads of those agencies are often political appointees, who are appointed directly by a President and are not expected to remain in their roles if the party in power changes. However, the actual work is done by career civil servants, who are hired based on merit and not their political connections.

Conservatives see this as a problem, because these career civil servants may have been hired by prior administrations, and they see every appointment by the opposition as tainted. They want to wreck the merit-based system that these people are hired under, subject all career government workers to loyalty tests, and fire the ones who don't meet those tests.

This is, of course, a recipe to decimate the functioning of these agencies and make them totally ineffective. But that's the whole point. This "deep state" they keep railing about are simply people who put their commitment to the country over their commitment to any one party or one President. So they must go. And it will shrink all these agencies in the process, which they see as a win.

This is an analysis from a Liberal advocacy group but I think it is an accurate description of what these chuckleheads are really up to:

https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/analysis/faq-the-conservative-attack-on-the-merit-based-civil-service/

Tl;dr

Fascist want to turn the US into a dictatorship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

Here's the document:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088042-project-2025s-mandate-for-leadership-the-conservative-promise

AT LEAST READ THE FOREWARD. It very meticulously lays out their 4 goals:

1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.

2. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.

3. Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.

4. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution calls “the Blessings of Liberty

In plain language they want to:

1. Effectively make LGBTQ+ persons illegal, unable to marry, adopt, or even exist openly, nationally ban abortion, ban education about black history and systemic racism;
2. hamstring or eliminate a bunch of government agencies like the Department of Education, the EPA, the DOJ, Department of Homeland Security, and to eliminate many positions within the federal government or install loyal puppets;
3. close our borders completely, pull out of NATO and the UN, invest heavily in oil, coal, and natural gas while divesting in renewable energy and removing environmental regulations, and exert extreme control over tech companies and universities;
4. create school voucher programs which very much are to allow parents to segregate their children and use tax dollars to fund conservative, religious, private schools at k-12 levels, and eliminate social welfare programs. Also includes the contradiction of "champion the dynamic genius of free enterprise" and "include antitrust enforcement against corporate monopolies."

The whole thing is full of conservative buzz words, "anti-woke" rhetoric, and contradictions about free enterprise while wanting to exert control over people and "big tech."

But it's also dangerous because they're going to attempt to consolidate power to the next Republican president. There are complicated and far-reaching consequences to the things they're proposing that would take an academic paper to get into. For example, Ron DeSantis just signed a bill making lab-grown meat illegal because of the "global elite." It doesn't make any sense, but it's part of the reactionary, anti-leftist, culture war bullshit the Republicans are on right now.

That summary should be enough to show why this is so dangerous.

Someone read The Handmaiden's Tale and thought it was a societal model narrative instead of a warning.

I'm like you OP, a fellow Canadian

And we should be worried... We are governed by children and, as such, the company they keep is extremely influential

We are about to elect a PM who has never had a real job outside of government and, somehow, has no political record to speak off.

PP has been leader of the opposition for years now and still has not proposed anything, shown any solution, discussed any alternate path to improve anything.

Like Trump, all he does is lie to the camera and play victim

In my own words...

Project 2025 is a blueprint of what Republicans (particularly Trump) have in mind in what they want to do to this country if they get power again.

It's literally the ultimate plan of all of the collective Republican psychopaths. This is the ultimate dream a lot of those white-trash supporters would want.

It's mostly a conservative fantasy. The idea is to bring back the spoilage system and executive order everything they want. The risks are huge there is just so many systems that no one besides a small number of civil servants and industry insiders know about. The FAA was shutdown the 737 Max got snuck in. Now there is plenty of blame to go around but we can't ignore that government inspectors weren't at work when this happened.

No, I don't think we are going to see soldiers on the streets, what I think will happen is random stuff will break.

With that said I am actively working to get my kids dual citizenship partially because of this.