“Most alarming of all, the very ethical foundations of our society are in peril.” Undertaking 2025, web page 1.
Undertaking 2025 is a wishlist of rightwing coverage objectives for the following conservative president. Authored by the Heritage Basis with the assist from over 100 far-right organizations, Undertaking 2025’s 887-page coverage plan is a roadmap to information what they describe as “the following conservative President’s final alternative to avoid wasting our republic.”
The paranoid rhetoric of Undertaking 2025 is gorgeous. I took a dive into the Undertaking 2025 cesspool and fished out among the choicest morsels, which I’ve organized into a number of classes: demonizing our enemies; reproductive rights and wrongs; rebuilding the patriarchal household; ending intercourse discrimination … in opposition to males; oil and fuel will save the nation; and eliminating authorities as we all know it. Get pleasure from!
Demonizing Our Enemies
On the left:
“The Left doesn’t imagine that every one males are created equal—they suppose they are particular. They actually don’t suppose all folks have an unalienable proper to pursue the nice life. They suppose solely they themselves have such a proper together with an ethical accountability to make choices for everybody else. They don’t suppose any citizen, state, enterprise, church or charity needs to be allowed any freedom till they first bend the knee.”
—p. 16
On college presidents and Wall Road hedge fund managers:
“Right this moment, practically each top-tier U.S. college president or Wall Road hedge fund supervisor has extra in frequent with a socialist, European head of state than with the dad and mom at a highschool soccer recreation in Waco, Texas. Many elites’ total identification, it appears, is wrapped up of their sense of superiority over these folks. However underneath our Structure, they’re the mere equals of the employees who bathe after work as an alternative of earlier than.”
—p. 10
On progressive elites:
“Progressive elites converse in lofty phrases of openness, progress, experience, cooperation and globalization. However too typically, these phrases are simply rhetorical Trojan horses concealing their true intention—stripping ‘we the folks’ of our constitutional authority over our nation’s future. America’s company and political elites don’t imagine within the beliefs to which our nation is devoted—self-governance, the rule of regulation and ordered liberty. They actually don’t belief the American folks, and so they disdain the Structure’s restrictions on their ambitions.”
—p. 10
On power-hungry socialists:
“For socialists, who’re nearly all the time well-to-do, socialism isn’t a way of equalizing outcomes, however a way of accumulating energy. They by no means get round to serving to anybody else.”
—p. 15
On the upper schooling institution:
“Somewhat than persevering with to buttress a better schooling institution captured by woke ‘diversicrats’ and a de facto monopoly enforced by the federal accreditation cartel, federal postsecondary schooling coverage ought to put together college students for jobs within the dynamic economic system, nurture institutional range, and expose colleges to better market forces.”
—p. 320
On pro-open borders elites:
“The one direct affect of open borders on pro-open borders elites is that the fixed circulation of unlawful immigration suppresses the wages of their housekeepers, landscapers and busboys.”
—p. 11
Inflation is ravaging household budgets, drug overdose deaths proceed to escalate, and youngsters endure the poisonous normalization of transgenderism with drag queens and pornography invading their faculty libraries.
Undertaking 2025, p.1
On the “Nice Awokening”:
“Unaccountable federal spending is the key lifeblood of the Nice Awokening. Practically each energy middle held by the Left is funded or supported, a technique or one other, via the paperwork by Congress.”
—p. 9
On cultural elites:
“Have a look at America underneath the ruling and cultural elite at present: Inflation is ravaging household budgets, drug overdose deaths proceed to escalate, and youngsters endure the poisonous normalization of transgenderism with drag queens and pornography invading their faculty libraries.”
—p. 1
On enemies “at house and overseas”:
“Each hour the Left directs federal coverage and elite establishments, our sovereignty, our Structure, our households, and our freedom are a step nearer to disappearing. Conservatives have simply two years and one shot to get this proper. With enemies at house and overseas, there isn’t any margin for error. Time is working quick. If we fail, the battle for the very concept of America could also be misplaced.”
—p. 16
Reproductive Rights and Wrongs
On forcing traumatized minors to present beginning:
“Pregnant, unaccompanied ladies in ORR [Office of Refugee Resettlement] custody needs to be handled with dignity, not trafficked throughout state strains to be victimized by the abortion business. ORR ought to withdraw its coverage of permitting elective abortions for kids in ORR care and subject a brand new coverage of instructing care suppliers to not permit ladies to be transported for elective abortions.”
—p. 478
On the rhythm technique:
“CDC ought to replace its public messaging concerning the unsurpassed effectiveness of recent fertility consciousness–primarily based strategies (FABMs) of household planning and cease publishing communications that conflate such strategies with the long-eclipsed ‘rhythm’ or ‘calendar’ strategies. CDC ought to fund research exploring the evidence-based strategies utilized in cutting-edge fertility consciousness.”
—p. 455
On abortion surveillance:
“As a result of liberal states have now change into sanctuaries for abortion tourism, HHS ought to use each accessible device, together with the chopping of funds, to make sure that each state reviews precisely what number of abortions happen inside its borders, at what gestational age of the kid, for what purpose, the mom’s state of residence, and by what technique.”
—p. 455
On “ideological distractions” on the Veterans Administration:
“For the primary time, the VA is permitting entry to abortion providers, a medical process unrelated to army service that the VA lacks the authorized authority and medical proficiency to carry out. Along with persevering with the grotesque tradition of violence in opposition to the kid within the womb, these sociopolitical initiatives and ideological indoctrinations distract from the division’s core missions.”
—p. 643
On selling junk science:
“HHS ought to create and promote a analysis agenda that helps pro-life insurance policies and explores the harms, each psychological and bodily, that abortion has wrought on girls and ladies.”
—p. 461
“NIH… ought to fund research into the short-term and long-term destructive results of cross-sex interventions, together with ‘affirmation,’ puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgical procedures, and the chance of desistence if younger persons are given counseling that doesn’t embody medical or social interventions.”
—p. 462
“[The CDC] ought to fund research into the dangers and problems of abortion and be certain that it corrects and doesn’t promote misinformation relating to the comparative well being and psychological advantages of childbirth versus the well being and psychological dangers of deliberately taking a human life via abortion.”
—p. 455
On locking up librarians and banning porn:
“Pornography needs to be outlawed. The individuals who produce and distribute it needs to be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it needs to be classed as registered intercourse offenders. And telecommunications and expertise companies that facilitate its unfold needs to be shuttered.”
—p. 6
Rebuilding the Patriarchal Household
On “pure” households:
“Married women and men are the best, pure household construction as a result of all kids have a proper to be raised by the women and men who conceived them.”
—p. 489
The following [Health and Human Services] secretary ought to reverse the Biden Administration’s concentrate on ‘LGBTQ+ fairness,’ subsidizing single-motherhood, disincentivizing work and penalizing marriage, changing such insurance policies with these encouraging marriage, work, motherhood, fatherhood and nuclear households.
Undertaking 2025, p. 316
Ending assist for single moms:
“The following [Health and Human Services] secretary ought to reverse the Biden Administration’s concentrate on ‘LGBTQ+ fairness,’ subsidizing single-motherhood, disincentivizing work and penalizing marriage, changing such insurance policies with these encouraging marriage, work, motherhood, fatherhood and nuclear households.”
—p. 316
On gender roles in parenting:
“For the sake of kid well-being, packages ought to affirm that kids require and deserve each the love and nurturing of a mom and the play and safety of a father.”
—p. 481
On funding patriarchal marriage:
“Defend faith-based grant recipients from spiritual liberty violations and keep a biblically primarily based, social science–strengthened definition of marriage and household.”
—p. 481
With parental consent and correct coaching, sure younger adults needs to be allowed to study and work in additional harmful occupations.
Undertaking 2025, p. 595
On the harms of childcare:
“Kids who spend vital time in day care expertise increased charges of hysteria, despair and neglect in addition to poor instructional and developmental outcomes. As an alternative of offering common day care, funding ought to go to folks both to offset the price of staying house with a toddler or to pay for familial, in-home childcare.”
—p. 486
On little one labor:
“With parental consent and correct coaching, sure younger adults needs to be allowed to study and work in additional harmful occupations.”
—p. 595
Ending Intercourse Discrimination … In opposition to Males
On eliminating gender equality:
“The following conservative President should make the establishments of American civil society laborious targets for woke tradition warriors. This begins with deleting the phrases sexual orientation and gender identification (“SOGI”), range, fairness, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender fairness, gender consciousness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive well being, reproductive rights, and every other time period used to deprive People of their First Modification rights out of each federal rule, company regulation, contract, grant, regulation and piece of laws that exists.”
—p. 4
On intercourse discrimination in opposition to males:
“Beneath Francis Collins, NIH turned so targeted on the #MeToo motion that it refused to sponsor scientific conferences until there have been a sure variety of girls panelists, which violates federal civil rights regulation in opposition to intercourse discrimination. This quota apply needs to be ended, and the NIH Workplace of Fairness, Variety, and Inclusion, which pushes such illegal actions, needs to be abolished.”
—p. 462
On bias in opposition to males:
“The promotion of gender radicalism is anathema to the normal norms of many societies the place USAID works, causes resentment by tying lifesaving help to rejecting the help recipient’s personal firmly held elementary values relating to sexuality, and produces pointless consternation and confusion amongst and even outright bias in opposition to males.”
—p. 259
Oil and Gasoline Will Save the Nation!
What environmental drawback?
“America’s huge reserves of oil and pure fuel are usually not an environmental drawback; they’re the lifeblood of financial progress.”
—p. 13
Ending climate-change analysis:
“Downsize the Workplace of Oceanic and Atmospheric Analysis. OAR supplies theoretical science, versus the utilized science of the Nationwide Hurricane Heart. OAR is, nevertheless, the supply of a lot of NOAA’s local weather alarmism. The preponderance of its climate-change analysis needs to be disbanded.”
—p. 676
Local weather change coverage as “anti-human”:
“At its very coronary heart, environmental extremism is decidedly anti-human. Stewardship and conservation are supplanted by inhabitants management and financial regression. Environmental ideologues would ban the fuels that run nearly all the world’s vehicles, planes, factories, farms, and electrical energy grids. Abandoning confidence in human resilience and creativity in responding to the challenges of the longer term would increase impediments to essentially the most significant human actions. They’d stand human affairs on their head, relating to human exercise itself as essentially a menace to be sacrificed to the god of nature.”
—p. 12
On opposing frequent sense local weather coverage within the identify of the “aged, poor, and weak”:
“‘Low-cost grace’ aptly describes the Left’s love affair with environmental extremism. Those that endure most from the insurance policies environmentalism would have us enact are the aged, poor, and weak. It isn’t a political trigger, however a pseudo-religion meant to baptize liberals’ ruthless pursuit of absolute energy within the holy water of environmental advantage.”
—p. 11
Ending Authorities as We Know It
On federal workers:
They boast about “find out how to hearth supposedly ‘un-fireable’ federal bureaucrats; find out how to shutter wasteful and corrupt bureaus and workplaces; find out how to muzzle woke propaganda at each degree of Authorities.”
—p. 9
On the chief department of the federal authorities:
“The answer to all the above issues is to not tinker with this or that authorities program, to switch this or that bureaucrat. These are issues not of technocratic effectivity however of nationwide sovereignty and constitutional governance. We resolve them not by trimming and reshaping the leaves however by ripping out the bushes—root and department.”
—p. 12
On flags:
“Divisive symbols such because the rainbow flag or the Black Lives Matter flag don’t have any place subsequent to the Stars and Stripes at our embassies.”
—p. 89
On socialist governments:
“In socialist nation after socialist nation, the one manner the federal government may maintain its disgruntled folks in line was to surveil and terrorize them. Against this, in international locations with a excessive diploma of financial freedom, elites are usually not in cost as a result of everyone seems to be in cost.”
—p. 15
On liberty and Thanksgiving dinners:
“A person should be free to dwell as his Creator ordained—to flourish. Our Structure grants every of us the freedom to don’t what we would like, however what we ought. This pursuit of the nice life is discovered primarily in household—marriage, kids, Thanksgiving dinners, and the like.”
—p. 14
“Handcuff the paperwork” and “defang and defund the woke cultural warriors.”
“As monolithic because the Left’s institutional energy seems to be, it originates with appropriations from Congress and is made full by a feckless President. … there are a lot of government instruments a brave conservative President can use to handcuff the paperwork, … carry the Administrative State to heel, and within the course of defang and defund the woke tradition warriors who’ve infiltrated each final establishment in America. The Conservative Promise lays out find out how to use many of those instruments together with: find out how to hearth supposedly ‘un-fireable’ federal bureaucrats; find out how to shutter wasteful and corrupt bureaus and workplaces; find out how to muzzle woke propaganda at each degree of presidency; find out how to restore the American folks’s constitutional authority over the Administrative State; and find out how to save untold taxpayer {dollars} within the course of.”
—p. 9
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