Project 2025: The New Fascist Playbook
Summary
TLDRThis video dives into Project 2025, a conservative plan spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation to centralize power in the presidency and implement far-right policies. The plan includes a comprehensive policy document, a personnel database for staffing government positions, training programs, and a step-by-step implementation guide. The goals are to dismantle the administrative state, combat 'woke' ideologies, and impose conservative values on the country. The video warns of the fascist implications and urges viewers to engage in mass movements and community defense to counteract these efforts.
Takeaways
- 🗳️ The video discusses the upcoming election season with strong contenders like Donald Trump and Joe Biden, highlighting the polarization in American politics.
- 🎭 The humor in the script uses exaggerated nicknames for political figures, such as 'Florida man the penguin' and 'Oprah spiritual adviser Hassan's Uncle', to satirize the election cycle.
- 📚 'Project 2025' is a 920-page conservative manifesto by the Heritage Foundation, aiming to centralize presidential power and dismantle bureaucracy.
- 🤝 The plan is not tied to a specific candidate but is designed to be implemented by any conservative president elected after 2025.
- 🛡️ The four core pillars of 'Project 2025' include policy proposals, a personnel database, a training program, and a 180-day playbook for implementing the policies.
- 🏛️ The script criticizes the plan's intention to gut the 'administrative state', which includes federal agencies responsible for regulations and safety.
- 🏳️🌈 The plan's goals include dismantling liberal policies, promoting conservative values, and restricting rights for certain groups like the LGBT community.
- 🛑 The video points out the use of 'unitary executive theory' to justify expanding presidential power beyond checks and balances.
- 🌐 The script suggests that the US's global and domestic issues, such as economic decline and worker hardships, are driving forces behind the rise of such conservative ideologies.
- 📈 The video concludes by advocating for mass movements and education as solutions to counteract the negative effects of unchecked capitalism and rising fascism.
- 🪒 A sponsorship message for Hensen shaving is included, promoting the company's sustainable and high-quality safety razor, the AL13.
Q & A
What is the main focus of the 'Project 2025' as mentioned in the script?
-Project 2025 is a conservative manifesto spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, aiming to give the president more power, destroy bureaucracy, root out 'woke' propaganda, appoint vetted far-right individuals at every level of government, and implement these changes the day a new conservative president is elected, which they anticipate to be in 2025.
What are the four core pillars of Project 2025?
-The four core pillars of Project 2025 are: 1) Policy, as outlined in a 920-page document detailing disturbing policy proposals; 2) Personnel database, described as a conservative LinkedIn for potential government staff; 3) Training, through an online institute to create soldiers for the 'war on woke'; and 4) The 180-day Playbook, a step-by-step guide for implementing the policies listed in the manifesto.
Which political figures are mentioned in the script as being part of the Red and Blue corners for the election season?
-In the Red corner, the script mentions Florida man (a metaphorical reference), the only black Republican in the Senate, and Donald Trump. In the Blue corner, it mentions Oprah's spiritual adviser, Hassan's Uncle, the chairman of a gelato company, and Joe Biden.
What is the 'Mandate for Leadership' and how does it relate to Project 2025?
-The 'Mandate for Leadership' is a book that many people assume to be Project 2025, but it is actually just one part of a larger conservative plan. It represents the policy aspect of Project 2025, which includes a series of conservative policy proposals.
What is the primary goal of the conservatives behind Project 2025 in terms of government structure?
-The primary goal of the conservatives behind Project 2025 is to dismantle the administrative state, centralize power in the executive branch, and make the president essentially unaccountable to Congress, thereby creating a system more favorable to conservative ideologies.
What does the script suggest about the use of Christian language in Project 2025?
-The script suggests that while Project 2025 heavily uses Christian language, the actual religious credentials of the people behind the project are minimal. It implies that the use of such language is more for appealing to a religious conservative audience rather than a genuine reflection of Christian values.
What is the script's view on the comparison between conservatives and fascists?
-The script suggests that while it might be cliché to compare conservatives to fascists, the overlap with the topic of Christian nationalism and the use of mythology to justify actions indicate that the line between conservatives and outright fascism is becoming increasingly blurred.
What is the script's stance on the potential impact of Project 2025 on the United States?
-The script presents a critical view, suggesting that Project 2025 could lead to a dystopian future with unchecked presidential power, dismantled environmental protections, and a crackdown on various groups, including immigrants, the LGBT community, and those expressing non-traditional gender identities.
What solution does the script propose to counter the potential negative effects of Project 2025?
-The script proposes mass movements, joining organizations, unionizing workplaces, learning self-defense, and educating oneself and others as solutions to counter the potential negative effects of Project 2025. It also suggests that addressing the economic base of these developments, such as the issues with capitalism, is crucial.
What is the role of the Hensen shaving product in the script?
-Hensen shaving is mentioned as the sponsor of the episode. The script includes a brief advertisement for their product, the Hensen al13 safety razor, which is praised for its precision, durability, and environmentally friendly design.
Outlines
🗳️ Election Season and Project 2025 Overview
This paragraph introduces the upcoming election season, highlighting the main contenders and the political climate. It presents 'Project 2025,' spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, as a conservative manifesto aiming to expand presidential power, dismantle bureaucracy, and implement far-right policies. The plan is not tied to a specific candidate and is designed to be enacted under any conservative president. The paragraph also mentions the four core pillars of Project 2025: policy, personnel database, training, and a 180-day playbook for policy implementation.
🎭 The Mythology of American Fascism and Project 2025's Goals
The second paragraph delves into the mythologized vision of America used by conservatives to justify their actions, drawing parallels with historical fascist movements. It outlines the four main priorities of Project 2025: restoring the family as the center of American life, dismantling the administrative state, defending national sovereignty, and securing individual liberties. The paragraph also criticizes the conservative approach to the federal government, particularly their desire to gut administrative agencies and the constitutionality argument they use to justify their actions.
🛡️ Project 2025's Policy Agenda and Justifications
This paragraph details the policy agenda of Project 2025, which includes removing 'cultural marxists' from the Department of Education, combating 'woke' ideology, and using Schedule F to allow the president to fire federal officials at will. It discusses the project's aim to give the president unchecked power, dismantle liberal systems, and implement conservative policies such as environmental deregulation, anti-globalism, anti-LGBT expression, and restrictions on immigration. The paragraph also touches on the unitary executive theory, which the project uses to justify expanding presidential power.
🏭 Capitalism, Fascism, and the Path Forward
The final paragraph discusses the structural problems of capitalism that lead to economic desperation and the rise of fascism. It argues that capitalism inherently results in monopoly, a falling rate of profit, and societal evils, suggesting that breaking the system is necessary for change. The paragraph also provides a solution, advocating for mass movements, unionization, self-defense, and education to combat the rise of fascism. Lastly, it includes a promotional message for Hensen shaving, a company with a background in aerospace machining that produces high-quality, sustainable safety razors.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Election Season
💡Project 2025
💡Administrative State
💡Unitary Executive Theory
💡Schedule F
💡Cultural Marxism
💡Woke
💡Fascism
💡Heritage Foundation
💡Globalism
💡Capitalism
Highlights
Election season is approaching with strong contenders like 'Florida man the penguin' and Donald Trump in the Red Corner, and Joe Biden in the Blue Corner.
Project 2025, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, is a conservative manifesto aiming to give the president more power and eliminate bureaucracy.
The project includes a 920-page document detailing policy proposals, a personnel database, an online training institute, and a 180-day playbook for implementing policies.
Project 2025's goals include restoring the family as the centerpiece of American life, dismantling the administrative state, defending national sovereignty, and securing individual rights.
The plan to gut the administrative state targets agencies like the EPA and FDA, aiming to remove regulations and increase presidential control.
Project 2025 seeks to use Schedule F to allow the president to fire federal officials at will, increasing executive power.
The manifesto's authors include far-right figures like Donald Divine, Steven Moore, and Peter Navarro, with various conservative credentials.
The project leans heavily on Christian nationalist rhetoric, despite a lack of religious credentials among its contributors.
Unitary executive theory is central to Project 2025, advocating for unchecked presidential power over other branches of government.
The plan includes dismantling environmental protections, moving away from globalism, and cracking down on immigration.
Project 2025 aims to criminalize LGBT expression, ban discussions of gender and abortion, and enforce a 'biblical' definition of family.
The project's economic justifications reflect a reaction to the US's declining global economic dominance and internal worker struggles.
The solution proposed involves mass movements, unionization, self-defense, and education to combat the rise of fascism.
Capitalism's inherent issues, such as monopoly and a falling rate of profit, are identified as the root cause of societal problems leading to fascism.
The video concludes with a call to action to break the system that powers societal evils, suggesting that capitalism must be addressed to prevent further decline.
The video is sponsored by Hensen Shaving, a company with a background in aerospace machining that has created a precision safety razor.
Hensen Shaving's AL13 razor is designed for precision and durability, with an aim to reduce waste in the shaving industry.
Transcripts
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shaving it's almost that time again
election season is bearing down on us
and we have some truly strong contenders
this cycle in the Red Corner we've got
Florida man the penguin this guy
literally the only black Republican in
the Senate and of course the god Emperor
himself the man who's so confident that
he won't even show up for debates Donald
Trump and in the blue Corner we've got
Oprah spiritual adviser Hassan's Uncle
the the chairman of a gelato company and
the reigning Champion the man who may or
may not remember how he got there Joe
Biden yes it's really shaping up to be a
once- in a-lifetime election season and
as always a life and death struggle for
democracy and the Very soul of the
nation as they all seem to be these days
despite very few differences in
Republican and Democratic
governance but there is one thing that
actually does make this election cycle a
bit different conservatives have been
lurching towards fascism for years with
the Democrats not far behind though
historically they've been a little more
subtle about it but recently the
American wri has dropped a hot new
single project
2025 if you thought they were bad before
just wait till you get a load of this in
today's episode we're taking a look at
the new conservative plan to seize total
control and what it means for the future
of the country brace yourself okay
project 2025 what is it spearheaded by
the Heritage Foundation project 2025 is
a massive 920 page conservative
Manifesto detailing how they intend to
give the president vasle more power
destroy bureaucracy root out woke
propaganda appoint vetted far-right
Freedom Fighters at every level of
government and have it all ready to
implement the day the next conservative
president is elected which they assume
will be 2025 hence the name despite
Trump obviously being the favorite the
plan is not dependent on any particular
candidate winning but can be implemented
with any figurehead at the the Reigns
who will become essentially completely
unaccountable God Emperor was supposed
to be a joke but here we are you may
have seen this book floating around
online the Mandate for leadership this
is what most people assume project 2025
to be but this is actually just one part
of a much larger conservative master
plan project 2025 has four core pillars
first the policy as outlined in the 920
page document this is where all the
heinous and frankly disturbing policy
proposal live and don't worry we'll look
at some of those in a bit two the
Personnel database which has been
described as the conservative LinkedIn
as if LinkedIn wasn't cringe enough
already this will be a repository for
conservative rums from people across all
sectors and from all walks of life to be
selected as needed to staff positions in
every level of government at both the
federal and state level three training
they've got a new online Institute
basically prageru but for people who
like to wear poorly tailored suits and
fantasize about rolling back back
environmental regulations this training
program will create willing and able
soldiers to serve on the front lines in
the war on the woke cabal of the deep
State and finally four The 180-day
Playbook a step-by-step guide for the
new conservative Emperor to
systematically implement the policies
listed in the manifesto think Ikea
assembly instructions but for fascism
these four pillars are the key
components of the project and taken
together they offer a pretty
comprehensive vision for the dystopian
future the right hopes to usher in it's
all pretty alarming but where exactly
does this come from let's take a look at
some of the names behind the project if
you flip through the first pages of the
PDF because let's be honest we're not
about to give the Heritage Foundation 35
bucks you'll find a list of far-right
think tanks advisory groups and business
and government figures who contributed
to the project some of the names include
Donald Divine once called by The
Washington Post Reagan's terrible Swift
sword of the civil service for his
eagerness to SL spending and fire people
Steven Moore the well-known conservative
author and right-wing Economist with
such credentials as working for the very
legitimate Freedom works and serving as
a Fox News contributor and Peter Navaro
who is notable for being one of just
three people who worked with Trump for
the duration of his term without being
fired he's also a little bit obsessed
with China having written three truly
awful books on the subject the coming
China Wars death by China and Crouching
Tiger the manifesto credits 35 total
authors as well as dozens of
contributors all with their credentials
listed it's about what you'd expect a
lot of people from the Heritage
Foundation some military goons a
smattering of former Trump officials
extremist economists and a considerable
number of people who have worked in
climate energy immigration and legal
positions under conservative governments
what you won't see a lot of in the
acknowledgements is religious
credentials which you'd think would be
important given how much the document
leans on Christian language this should
be your first indication that maybe the
the people who loudly Proclaim their
faith aren't really all that Christian
and they're just using it to win brownie
points among their religious
conservative audience there's actually a
lot of overlap here with the topic of
our last video on Christian nationalism
these people use religious rhetoric but
a little bit of digging reveals that the
god they pray to is not the god of the
Bible but a mythologized vision of
America itself much like fascists
throughout history have relied on a
glorious false past to act as a North
star to guide them into the promised
land so too have Americans fascist wrap
themselves in comforting mythology
proving that what they are doing is not
only just but divinely inspired when you
have a higher power on your side it's
pretty easy to justify horrific acts
okay with the brains behind the project
out of the way let's get into the
nitty-gritty what exactly do these
people want what's their end goal well
there are four main priorities in their
words they want to one restore the
family as the centerpiece of American
Life and protect our children two
dismantle the administrative State and
return self-governance to the American
people three defend our nation's
sovereignty borders and Bounty against
Global threats and four secure our
god-given individual rights to live
freely what our constitution calls the
blessings of liberty okay you can
probably already see where some of this
is going but let's start with the boring
stuff the nuts and bolts of manipulating
the federal government to serve the
right a lot of this project centers
around gutting What's called the
administrative State this is stuff like
the EPA FEMA HUD the FED stuff like that
the hum drum logistical stuff that
nonetheless often plays an important
role or sometimes not looking at you DHS
there's a lot of this stuff so much so
that it's often called the fourth branch
of government and it deals with the
day-to-day operations of the country
everything from transportation to
environmental regulations food and water
safety and so on most of these agencies
are created when a law is passed that
makes people think hm there really
should be a group of people responsible
for making sure food is safe for
consumption or whatever the government
slaps together an elite team of nerds
that is to say subject matter experts
people who actually know what they're
talking about and there you go you've
got the FDA the FDA then takes over the
task of enforcing whatever regulations
they come up with in administrative
courts but this is all really boring all
you need to know is that a lot fewer
people die because the FDA exists and we
have fewer polluted rivers and extinct
species because the EPA exists
conservatives don't really like rules in
general especially rules that protect
the environment or poor people so these
agencies need to go it's not good enough
that the president can appoint the heads
of these admin agencies for example
Trump appointing a fossil fuel executive
to head the EPA no conservatives want
complete power over everyone in these
agencies because right now the subject
matter experts at say the EPA are not
beholden to politics they just come to
work work and try to figure out how to
protect snails or something much of the
argument here centers around whether
these agencies are constitutional
conservatives like to claim that since
the Constitution didn't explicitly say
federal agencies like these were part of
their master plan their government
overreach and should be dismantled
historically federal courts have
disagreed with this assessment so until
now we can rest assured that our milk
has been pasteurized and our water isn't
contaminated with lead but here's the
thing with the whole con
constitutionality argument who cares
most countries around the world scrap
their constitutions entirely when the
people decide they're no longer relevant
or they need to be overhauled only the
United States has this weird reverence
for the Constitution and the founding
fathers part of that is due to the
relatively Short history of the country
the US has only really existed for a
couple hundred years when you look
around the world and see some of your
peer Nations have a couple thousand
years of History you might feel the need
to mythologize your past just a little
bit to make your nation seems special
the founding fathers have been elevated
to Godlike status especially among
conservatives but the truth is they were
a bunch of Frat Boys okay not all of
them Ben Franklin was 70 and Washington
was 44 but a lot of them dear viewer are
younger than you are right now Alexander
Hamilton the one with the annoying fan
club he was 21 and he wasn't even the
youngest anyway the point is when you
look at historical events without the
rose tint of Mythology you see a bunch
of normal people just kind of making it
up as they go along it's normal that
things change over the centuries what's
considered constitutional should reflect
the values and Norms of the time that
little tangent aside let's get back to
the goals of project 2025 we talked
about the boring stuff wanting to gut
the administrative state but what else
is in there it's 920 Pages after all
they've got to have some other ideas
well a lot of it is what you might
expect As Trump stated on numerous
occasions they want want to kick the
cultural marxists out of the Department
of Education demolish the Deep State and
combat woke ideology at all levels of
government they plan to do this by
making extensive use of schedule F A
piece of legislation established at the
federal level by Trump which allows the
president to fire federal government
officials at will presumably for not
sufficiently bending the knee the
project calls for an executive branch
with essentially unchecked power making
the president basically unaccountable to
Congress they want to dismantle the
liberal system to build one more
favorable to conserv atives that means
scrapping Environmental Protections
moving away from globalism punishing
corporations for Dei language which is
funny because it sounds like they
actually think these corporations
genuinely believe their Dei statements
they want to escalate tensions with
China by ending economic engagement
entirely crack down on immigration
criminalize LGBT expression they claim
that any talk of gender gender identity
and so on is pornography and should be
banned and has no First Amendment
protections they want to scrap labor
discrimination policies quote maintain a
biblically based social science
reinforced definition of family meaning
scrap protections for same-sex marriage
and plan to quote secure our god-given
individual rights to live freely unless
of course you're one of the AFF
forementioned groups they intend to
criminalize out of
existence in that vein to touch very
briefly on their views on pornography if
you read the text they basically just
mean any discussion of gender abortion
or any identity other than straight and
cisgender they want all instances of
this kind of language stripped from
society while it's a little cliche to
compare the conservatives to Nazis you
know what books were the first to be
burned which institutions were the first
to be shuttered books on gender and
sexuality and institutions that studied
these topics but okay we know elected
conservatives are like one step removed
from outright fascism at this point but
how are they justifying this yes we all
know they just forced this stuff through
if they could but at least for now they
still have to play by the rules of West
Western liberalism so the key to their
plan is to lean on unitary executive
Theory which dates back to the Devil
Himself Ronald
Reagan in a nutshell this political
Theory suggests that maybe having three
separate but equal branches of
government isn't a good idea and that
instead the executive branch should
dominate the
relationship Reagan's team came up with
this notion to help facilitate
deregulation and it kind of just stuck
every president since Reagan has made
use of this Theory to wield just a
little bit more power than they probably
should have Bush Jr justifying his
invasion of Iraq Obama justifying
widespread us deployment overseas
Trump's Muslim ban and so on now the
project 2025 ghouls want to make sure
the president has essentially unchecked
power that Congress cannot prevent the
president from doing what they want to
do however heinous their pet projects
may be there's a whole conversation
about unitary executive theory in
government circles people are writing
books about it and having very important
conversations with very smart people and
you know what that's what makes this so
scary the Republicans talk a big game
about destroying cultural Marxism or
Waging War on woke but that's just
Bluster when they start coming up with
justifications within the liberal
framework the Democrats will cave like
they always do every single time we see
them play ball with the far right they
seed a little more ground each time then
you get a president like Biden who just
straight up accelerates the process by
speeding up border wall Construction C
approving a record number of oil
drilling permits and then when he
inevitably loses because everyone is
upset with him the project 2025 people
swoop in and the Democrats just go along
with it because it's technically legal
not to do it again but most fascists
throughout history have come into power
through technically legal means and then
they change what's legal so you can't
get them out
again well that's all pretty Grim huh
what's the solution here do we just vote
harder no I mean do that that if you
want especially if you think you can
make a difference at the local level but
things have gotten worse for us with
every single president and things have
certainly gotten worse for people living
in the third world as the US gets more
and more vicious abroad as our Empire
declines the solution is the same as
it's always been mass movements join an
organization unionize your workplace
learn to defend yourself and your
community from fascist vigilante
violence keep yourself safe online learn
your rights educate yourself and those
around you things like project 2025
don't happen in a vacuum there is an
economic base to these developments the
US is losing ground on the world stage
and will soon be superseded by China as
the dominant economic power domestically
the average worker is worse off now than
in living memory we can't afford the
skyrocketing cost of housing food Health
Care utilities everything is going up
except wages we have no mandated paid
sick leave or parental leave we have no
benefits no labor protections no CH for
advancement as more and more companies
move to the gig model of employment
these are structural problems caused by
the very nature of capitalism run the
simulation a thousand times and will end
up right here every single time the race
for endlessly increasing profits result
in Monopoly over acccumulation a falling
rate of profit economic desperation
among the masses and a surge of reaction
that carries fascism to the very top you
want a different result break the
machine that powers the societal evils
if capitalism is allowed to survive we
will
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