FILE - Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., holds a copy of Project 2025 as he speaks during the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago. There has long been a tug-of-war over White House plans to make government more liberal or more conservative.
FILE - Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., holds a copy of Project 2025 as he speaks during the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago.
There has long been a tug-of-war over White House plans to make government more liberal or more conservative.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Trump’s Project 2025 Agenda Caps Decades-Long Resistance to 20th Century Progressive Reform

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FILE - Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., holds a copy of Project 2025 as he speaks during the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago. There has long been a tug-of-war over White House plans to make government more liberal or more conservative.
FILE - Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., holds a copy of Project 2025 as he speaks during the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago.
There has long been a tug-of-war over White House plans to make government more liberal or more conservative.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Trump’s Project 2025 Agenda Caps Decades-Long Resistance to 20th Century Progressive Reform
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For much of the 20th century, efforts to remake government were driven by a progressive desire to make the government work for regular Americans, including the New Deal and the Great Society reforms.

But they also met a conservative backlash seeking to rein back government as a source of security for working Americans and realign it with the interests of private business. That backlash is the central thread of the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” blueprint for a second Trump Administration.

Alternatively disavowed and embraced by President Donald Trump during his 2024 campaign, Project 2025 is a collection of conservative policy proposals – many written by veterans of his first administration. It echoes similar projects, both liberal and conservative, setting out a bold agenda for a new administration.

But Project 2025 does so with particular detail and urgency, hoping to galvanize dramatic change before the midterm elections in 2026. As its foreword warns: “Conservatives have just two years and one shot to get this right.”

The standard for a transformational “100 days” – a much-used reference point for evaluating an administration – belongs to the first administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Read the full article on The Conversation.

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