Project 2025 Is Merely “Think Tank Stuff”? Not Really!
SlateThis is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become. Marco Rubio, when asked on CNN’s State of the Union about Trump’s association with Project 2025 In April 2023, a coalition of conservatives organized by the Heritage Foundation think tank released Project 2025, a nearly 900-page report laying out everything they hope Trump might do in a second term as president—and all together, it painted a chilling picture. Longtime Trump adviser Stephen Miller starred in an Related From Slate There’s Actually One Biden Debate Zinger That’s Had Some Staying Power So, it’s not such a stretch to think that a potential second Trump administration will also be filled with people who subscribe to Project 2025’s agenda. The Associated Press called the coalition “essentially a government-in-waiting for the former president’s return.” Last week, Trump also tried to distance himself from the blueprint for his hypothetical second term. But don’t be fooled by anyone—elected Republican senator or otherwise—trying to hand-wave Project 2025 away as some boring “think tank stuff.”