Project 2025: the rise of oligarchy

THE world created in October 1945 no longer exists.

- LORENZO A DAVIDS

It ended in 2022, when the US Heritage Foundation tasked director Paul Dans and his team at the HF with establishing Project 2025.Project 2025 is a child of a previous Heritage Foundation project, 'Mandate for Leadership,' published in January 1981, which served as a policy blueprint for the then-incoming Reagan administration. Dans, in a March 2025 Politico Magazine interview, states that Donald Trump is the perfect candidate to execute Project 2025.

How does all this relate to the rest of the world? Project 2025 is diametrically opposed to any notion of democracy. It is a blueprint for the unlimited power of the president. The kidnapping of the president of Venezuela demonstrated that power. Dans states that Project 2025 believe that "the Constitution vests the executive power squarely and solely in the president of the United States." Voters elect the president. That president rules with full executive authority. Dans believes that since the days of Woodrow Wilson, "encroachments on the executive power were antidemocratic and unconstitutional." He sees democracy as an exercise where "every four years the people vote for a president to put forward new policy, and if his policies are being impeded by an unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy, that is a problem that needs reformation." Project 2025 wants a president with unlimited executive powers - a king.