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Project 2025’s Genius Ideas on Cities and Transportation
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Resources:
- "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise" aka Project 2025: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088042-project-2025s-mandate-for-leadership-the-conservative-promise
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/09/trump-january-6-witnesses-election
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/donald-trumps-ukraine-scandal-has-its-roots-in-russia
- https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-ap-top-news-elections-politics-14a2ceda724623604cc8d8e5ab9890ed
- https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ends-trump-lawsuits-df42ef0eec5fa57edf3e294234051d88
- https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/factbox-here-are-eight-trump-associates-arrested-or-convicted-of-crimes-idUSKBN25G1YU/
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/17/trump-muslim-ban-gaza-refugees
- https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/1102305878/supreme-court-abortion-roe-v-wade-decision-overturn
- https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-strikes-down-chevron-curtailing-power-of-federal-agencies/
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-advances-school-vouchers-despite-scant-evidence/
- https://apnews.com/article/nato-trump-delinquent-defense-allies-c1f7de696ff6ca06e4088f49b93122e1
- https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/president-trump-announces-withdrawal-paris-agreement-0#:~:text=President%20Trump%20has%20announced%20his,Framework%20Convention%20on%20Climate%20Change.
- https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/23/trump-putin-ukraine-invasion-00010923
- https://www.heritage.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Donald_Trump
- https://www.transportation.gov/bipartisan-infrastructure-law/bipartisan-infrastructure-law-grant-programs
- https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-safety/the-hidden-danger-of-big-pickup-trucks-a9662450602/
- https://apnews.com/article/trump-hannity-dictator-authoritarian-presidential-election-f27e7e9d7c13fabbe3ae7dd7f1235c72
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/trump-says-hell-be-a-dictator-on-day-one/676247/
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/06/donald-trump-sean-hannity-dictator-day-one-response-iowa-town-hall
- https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/dictator-day-one-trump-s-grand-plans-federal-bureaucracy
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/12/11/donald-trump-dictator-one-day-reelected/71880010007/
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-sean-hannity-dictator-day-one/
- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/202311donald-trump-dictator-on-day-one
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I really appreciate the added context here, pointing out the Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership documents that were written for Regan’s first term as well as for Trump in 2016.
A common talking point seems to be that this is just a wishlist, not actual policy, though high percentages of the recommendations (2/3rds) DO end up as policy.