The hysteria around Project 2025 among the Democratic Party and the media is a ploy for the uninformed voter.
“It’s a plan to turn Donald Trump into a dictator,” said Michigan Senator Mallory McMorrow at the Democratic National Convention.
Ironically, President Trump has disavowed Project 2025 on numerous occasions.
“They came up with some ideas, I guess, some good, some bad,” said Trump in his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. “But it makes no difference. I have nothing to do. I’m an open book.”
Project 2025 is the Heritage Foundation’s plan of action for the next Republican administration. The organization has created similar plans in previous years, so Project 2025 is nothing out of the ordinary. What is out of the ordinary, however, is the hysteria surrounding it.
Democrats are relying on the fact that most voters won’t read the more than 900 page document or know that Trump has disavowed the plan.
“Project 2025’s plan to eliminate public schools has already started,” reads a Time Magazine headline from July.
But Project 2025 doesn’t call for the elimination of public education. Rather, it calls for school choice policies, which would allow families to send their children to private schools through a school voucher program.
Trump’s own proposal for his administration, Agenda 47, likewise supports strengthening school choice. It makes no mention of eliminating public schools or cutting funding to educational institutions.
Harris has told voters to read Project 2025, but that just betrays the fact that she herself hasn’t read it — or is lying about its contents.
“When you read it, you will see Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security and Medicare,” said Harris at a July 23 rally in Wisconsin.
When Harris urges voters to read Project 2025, it’s an empty statement. If voters took her up on that suggestion, they would find that such a proposal exists nowhere in the document. In fact, if voters took a look at President Trump’s campaign website, they would find that he intends to protect Social Security.
“Fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age,” reads one of the Agenda 47 proposals.
If the Harris campaign truly wanted to show the dangers a second Trump term would pose, they could simply point to his list of policies and explain why they aren’t effective. The hysteria on the part of Harris and the Democrats can be chalked up to nothing more than a cynical political strategy.
If you would like to truly understand President Trump and the GOP’s vision for America, read the agenda outlined on his website. Listen to his speeches at rallies. Watch his interviews and town halls. Rather than sifting through the media coverage of a document that’s almost 1,000 pages long, see for yourself what President Trump believes.
Skye Graham is a sophomore studying history.