I ask my fellow citizens to understand a plan to severely alter our democratic system.
Project 2025, the “Presidential Transition Project,” would be carried out starting on Day 1 of the new administration. Its one intention is to concentrate power and authority of the three branches of government in the presidency, overriding checks and balances that would restrain presidential power.
This ultimate power play brings to the forefront what we have learned from other nations whose authoritarian leaders, initially supported by followers, ran countries into the ground by the abuse of power.
Project 2025 would replace government civil servants with loyalists to the president’s agenda. We only need to go 90 miles south of Florida to witness how that worked out.
Donald Trump claims to know nothing about Project 2025. The statement was made after the Heritage Foundation described Project 2025 as a “second American Revolution,” which will be bloodless as long as it is not opposed “by the left.”
The American Revolution gave us the freedoms we celebrate every July 4. Why would we roll over and give up the freedoms and rights our ancestors fought so hard for?
For the sake of our great country, spread the word about Project 2025’s threat to democracy. Check it out at democracyforward.org/the-peoples-guide-to-project-2025/.
Candy Banks, Jupiter
Our nation’s fate
Trump denies knowledge of the oppressive Project 2025, developed by the Heritage Foundation with far-right groups with ties to his campaign.
Project 2025 director Paul Dans ran the Office of Personnel Management in Trump’s presidency. A radical rewrite of traditional Republican principles, this is Trumpism as intended by Trump’s campaign.
It would upend democracy as we know it in offensive ways. It would establish an official state religion, ban reproductive health care and birth control, repeal the Affordable Care Act and outlaw public support of the homeless. The 920-page manifesto would gut at least 50,000 civil service jobs in what Trump and Dans ominously call the “deep state,” a thick conspiracy alleging that federal regulatory agencies assert partisan influence against conservative policy.
We who value American ideals can neuter Project 2025 through urgent, unprecedented voter turnout to deny Trump a return to the White House. Independents who do not support Trump or President Biden, disappointed Democrats, and reasonable Republicans eager to thwart an authoritarian reign can apply this preventative option. Call this combined effort “Project 2024” in a year in which our nation’s fate will be determined. The democratic spirit and rule of law can still prevail.
Paul Doell, Hollywood
How Biden must have felt
Trump continues to lie, lie, lie, never backing down or admitting fault. He won’t reveal that he’s fully on board with Project 2025 with its handouts for the ultra-wealthy, diminishing civil rights, voting rights, and freedom for women. It will do away with climate change regulations and remove checks on the former president, with a Supreme Court wholly owned by him bringing us closer to authoritarianism.
Why is the news media so focused on President Biden, when they should be focused on the vengeful, lying, convicted felon Trump, who’s trying to destroy democracy? I know how Biden felt during the debate because Trump’s constant barrage of lies and refusal to answer questions left me speechless, unable to utter sentences that didn’t include profanity.
Rosemary Blumberg, Plantation
(Editor’s Note: Project 2025 proposes to commercialize the National Weather Service, in part because of its view that the National Hurricane Center in Miami, which warns us about hurricanes, is seen as promoting climate change.)
‘Leftist garbage’
You print leftist garbage in your letters to the editor. Project 2025 is not Trump’s. He did not call dead service members suckers and losers. He will not put an end to democracy if elected. It’s a shame that no newspaper in South Florida presents both sides of an issue.
Osvaldo Valdes, Hollywood
