Project 2025

 By now I hope that you've had the opportunity to do something that most members of Congress apparently don't: Take a few moments to look over a document. I am referring to the very concrete agenda put forth by the convicted felon's cronies, the one they so cleverly titled Project 2025. This binder full of hate and fear shows us all a path the former game show host plans to take after he slithers into office. 

I know. Mnny of us figured this was just a lot of ballyhoo created by the evil offspring of Leslie Knope, Binders full of angry screeds against "the way things are" and hyperbole and excess that hope to return things to "the way they used to be." This was the group that the twice-impeached one insisted he had no knowledge of while he spouted stories about choosing between electrocution by electric boats and shark attack. In between platitudes for his "dear friend Hannibal Lecter," he would often fend off questions about Project 2025 as if it were some long ago issue of Vanity Fair that painted him and his son-in-law as racist slum lords. 

At that time, the racist slum lord was angling to become the first convicted felon to run for the highest office in the land. And win. Those of us living in the quiet bubbles known as the coasts never imagined the appeal of "the Weave." While the Republican candidate stood up on stage prattling on about how he still hadn't lost the 2020 election, his dark minions were preparing the plan for 2025. 

Even now, as the seemingly immortal idiot rambles on about the annexation of Panama, Greenland and Canada, the work is beginning to make good on those promises put forth by the playbook called Project 2025. Checks and balances that have kept federal agencies from being used as simply an arm of the executive branch will be dissolved. While it would be easy enough to assume that the current brain trust involved in bringing this plan to fruition will more than likely fall apart even as they make their way to the goal line, we would all do well to pay attention right now. 

It starts tomorrow.