Do your own research on Project 2025

This is a public service, putting Project 2025 on the bullseye in the focus.

You have been hearing a lot about it, and a lot of what you have heard is lies, distortions, and half-truths. 

Snopes takes a deep dive into the Heritage Foundation plan to reshape the U.S. government under conservative principles.

2025 has not been embraced by Donald J. Trump, who claims to be unfamiliar with it, or even Heritage.

Of course, that is ridiculous. For his Supreme Court nominees, he used a list provided by Heritage and the Federalist Society. He also said, in the same sentence, that he had no idea what was in 2025, and that some of it is crazy. How could he know some of it is crazy if he had no idea what was in it?

Anyway. . .

Are some of those who created the 940-page report Trumpsters? Yes.

Does that mean it is Trump’s document? No.

Might he want to impose portions of it? Yes.

For the record, I agree with some of it, disagree with some of it, which I may detail in a future column. This time I am just giving you the opportunity to do your own research.

While some critics are calling it Trump’s fever dream, many of its ideas were first proposed by Ronald Reagan in 1981, as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer.  

But you may not trust the Inquirer,  so I point you to the analysis by Snopes, which does have a left tilt, but I find it to be trustworthy. If you don’t like Snopes, you can go to AP, Reuters, the Washington Post, and so on. But don’t use the fact check on JoeBiden.com. That is incredibly one-sided.

If you have the time and interest (I don’t) you can read the entire report, to which Snopes provides a link.

Read the whole thing, or a synopsis, or a fact check, but do read something before posting your opinions of it.