I & I Editorial BoardAfter being beaten over the head for months by Democrats about “Project 2025” – about which the left has mounted an unprecedented disinformation campaign – Donald Trump has finally figured out how to respond. And it’s a doozy.
Up until now, all Trump would say about Project 2025 is that he didn’t know anything about it. That left the door open for Democrats to say whatever they wanted about that effort and claim it’s a Trump plan.
Project 2025 was never a Trump plan. The book Democrats keep parading around is called “Mandate for Leadership,” which the conservative Heritage Foundation has published every four years since 1980.
It is and always has been meant as a guide for any incoming administration to policies that conservatives endorse. No one outside of policy wonks knew about it, much less read it. And in the 44 years since the first edition came out, only two presidents have used it – Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump – both of whom implemented pro-growth tax cuts, cut back the regulatory Leviathan, and spurred strong, widely shared, economic growth.
This year, with no record to run on, Democrats decided that their entire campaign had to be built around scaring voters about Trump. But since calling him a “threat to democracy” and arresting him wasn’t working, they decided to find another bogeyman. And they settled on the “Mandate.”
At 900 pages, it was big enough that they could find a few things that, taken out of context, seemed frightening, and then they just made up the rest because who’d bother to check?
The campaign worked. An NBC poll finds that American adults have a more negative view of Project 2025 than they do of socialism.
The Democrats are still at it. They even held a mock hearing last week.
The press has apparently tired a little bit of the lies the party is peddling. CNN just called out Tim Walz for claiming that Project 2025 would require parents to register their pregnancies with the federal government.
“Walz’s claims are false,” CNN states categorically.
But up until now, the Trump campaign has inexplicably been on defense.” I don’t know anything about it,” Trump would say. Some of the ideas are nutty, he’d say. “I have my own agenda.” Etc., etc.
At last, and hopefully not too late, he’s figured out how to turn the tables on Harris. And it just took one post on X.
Here it is:
The difference between Trump’s list and the horror stories being peddled by the left is that Trump’s is true – even if Harris (and her handmaidens in the press) deny it.
To be clear, we are not in the habit of promoting campaign literature. But in this case, it’s too good and too important to pass up.
Share this chart with your friends, your family, your neighbors, everyone on social media, your local press. Make Harris defend her Project 2025.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
I know I should talk about Project 2025, but I&I I’m sure said everything. So let me go on to something that’s been eating at me.
Joe Biden was removed as a candidate because the Democratic Party admitted, for all intents and purposes, that he was a doddering, dementia-ridden fool.
Every one could see it in the debates; he just wasn’t the man he use to be; he’s like everybody’s fear of how they’ll be when they grow old.
So why capture Kamala as the candidate first-instead of letting the 25th Amendment-where Kamala as the VP would become President-take its course.
After all, everyone would view her competence in running the country as President.
I think this is why Biden wasn’t removed as the President. Because if he had been Kamala as the elected VP would have become President.
And I don’t believe once independents-and perhaps even Democrats-saw her fiasco in running the country, they would have voted for her to continue to be President.
The Main Stream Media would likely have covered for her (because their Trump Derangement is so vivid-and besides they are use to not admitting their errors in judgment).
However, I think the Democratic Party choreographed it this way (Biden removed as candidate; Biden continuing as President (which can only hurt the country since the Party admitted he’s too demented to be a candidate); appointing Kamala to be the new President (likely, I believe, because she’d be most receptive- of all her competitors- to her Puppet Masters).
The Democratic Party is only concerned with acquiring power any way it can (as an example of this truism, the Democratic Senate has not voted to immediately allow the 25th Amendment to replace Biden with Kamala) .
And so: The Founders and the Constitution and Democracy (and the Republic) be damned!