Project 2025 Hard-right plan to go ahead, say allies of new president

Cheerleaders for Donald Trump have gleefully raised the prospect of the extremist Project 2025 policy blueprint being implemented by the new administration as they taunted the defeated Democrats.

- Martin Pengelly

Project 2025 is an initiative coordinated by the hard-right Heritage Foundation and presented to the American public in the form of the Mandate, a policy document over 900 pages long. Proposals for a second Trump administration include political purges of the federal government and attacks on minority rights and environmental protections, among many other hard-right policy ideas.

"Now that the election is over I think we can finally say that, yeah, actually, Project 2025 is the agenda," said Matt Walsh, a podcaster, commentator and author, adding: "Lol."

Benny Johnson, an internet provocateur and proven plagiarist, added: "It is my honour to inform you all that Project 2025 was real the whole time."

Steve Bannon, Trump's former campaign chair and White House strategist, recently imprisoned for contempt of Congress and soon to face fraud charges in New York, used his War Room podcast to display a copy of the Mandate for Leadership, a Project 2025 publication.