(C) Daily Kos
This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered.
. . . . . . . . . .



Can we name the Elephant? [1]

['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.']

Date: 2025-06-15

Something that’s been bothering me with reporting of the ongoing shitshow is how much of it is framed as, “Tr*mp doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground” or “He’s just a racist fuck.” And while those things are true they ignore the bigger problem: Project 2025.

Take three stories that grabbed headlines Greenland, tariffs, and ICE in LA. Every story I saw about them focused on how dumb Trump was about foreign policy, economics, or how racist he is. Yet every single one of those things are clearly spelled out in Project 2025.

Greenland is considered “strategic” because the authors of that toxic manifesto are worried that China will gain a sizable influence there and be able to set up military bases to easily strike the east coast. It has nothing to do with Twitler’s love of “real estate deals”. FFS, Hegseth casually announced a few days ago that the Pentagon has drawn up “contingency invasion plans” for Greenland.

Tariffs are also part of Projectile Vomit 2025. Sure, they were put there on behalf of Trump but it’s part of the plan. And they are following that plan page by page, line by line, and we all act confused or mock him as TACO Don. Yet the 10% minimum tariffs called for in P2025 are still in place and still harming the US economy. All according to plan.

And ICE in LA is another part of the Project 2025 agenda. Right down to using local police mixed with ICE. There’s a fantastic write up on this at the Phoenix New Times that I’ve quoted before..

To facilitate the administration’s mass deportation goals, several proposals in the Border Security Workgroup materials would expand the use of programs that extend federal immigration enforcement powers to local law enforcement officers. For example, documents contemplate waiving 287(g) training requirements for sheriff’s deputies and municipal police working in “regional command” units. The 287(g) program allows local law enforcement to work in concert with ICE in such matters as immigration raids.

We need to stop pretending the fascists aren’t following their fascist playbook and call it out every time they’re doing exactly what they said would. Because the end result of that playbook is a complete dismantling of the America we all know. I’m not saying that what was in place was perfect but the plan includes things like Balkanizing the US by completely gutting the “supremacy clause” basically making states their own nations only loosely bound together. Kind of like both Confederacies (the original one from 1781 to 1789 and the even shittier version from 1861 to 1865). With other goals like establishing their version of Christianity as the state religion and doing whatever they can to ensure they never have to cede power again.

By taking the focus away from Project 2025 and putting it on Orange Foolius we’re failing to address the true source of the problem. Does anyone seriously think that if Biggus Mackus keeled over tomorrow from a well-earned junk food and diet Coke heart attack that J.D. Vance wouldn’t pick up the reins and keep following the Project 2025 playbook? Because I sure as hell don’t.

So to the staff at DKos, please, I beg you, put more emphasis on Project 2025 as the true elephant in the room. If we don’t start taking it seriously who will? And if not now, when? Because it might already be too late.

[END]
---
[1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/15/2328212/-Can-we-name-the-Elephant?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web

Published and (C) by Daily Kos
Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified.

via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds:
gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/