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Project 2025 & the Rusty Pick-up Truck
About a month ago, I was depositing a check at the drive-up window at my bank. Alongside me at the ATM was a pickup truck I could literally see through. The right quarter panel was gone and rust pock-marked most of the remaining metal, like lesions. A piece of rotting plywood occupied where the missing tailgate used to be. On it was a “Let’s Go Brandon!” bumper sticker next to “TRUMP 2024”.
I thought to myself, “If that isn’t symbolic of the Trump presidency and its necrotic vision for America, I don’t know what is.”
The mainstream media has, fortunately, been paying attention lately to the Heritage Foundation’s dystopian “Project 2025,” the autocrats’ playbook for a republican agenda should the fallen party of Abraham Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower regain the White House.
While reproductive rights, government efficiency, immigration, racial equity, and social safety nets have all been appropriate subjects of media scrutiny of the plan, some sometimes dismiss them as wonky issues energizing merely Democrats to which the average American voter not paying much attention to politics has trouble relating.
But there is one area to which everyone can relate and republicans consistently exploit to feed their agenda — the economy.
