WATCH: Project 2025: The New Fascist Playbook

0:00 | this episode is made possible by Henson

0:04 | shaving it’s almost that time again

0:07 | election season is bearing down on us

0:09 | and we have some truly strong contenders

0:11 | this cycle in the Red Corner we’ve got

0:13 | Florida man the penguin this guy

0:16 | literally the only black Republican in

0:18 | the Senate and of course the god Emperor

0:20 | himself the man who’s so confident that

0:22 | he won’t even show up for debates Donald

0:24 | Trump and in the blue Corner we’ve got

0:27 | Oprah spiritual adviser Hassan’s Uncle

0:29 | the the chairman of a gelato company and

0:31 | the reigning Champion the man who may or

0:34 | may not remember how he got there Joe

0:36 | Biden yes it’s really shaping up to be a

0:38 | once- in a-lifetime election season and

0:41 | as always a life and death struggle for

0:43 | democracy and the Very soul of the

0:44 | nation as they all seem to be these days

0:48 | despite very few differences in

0:49 | Republican and Democratic

0:52 | governance but there is one thing that

0:55 | actually does make this election cycle a

0:57 | bit different conservatives have been

0:59 | lurching towards fascism for years with

1:01 | the Democrats not far behind though

1:03 | historically they’ve been a little more

1:05 | subtle about it but recently the

1:07 | American wri has dropped a hot new

1:09 | single project

1:11 | 2025 if you thought they were bad before

1:14 | just wait till you get a load of this in

1:16 | today’s episode we’re taking a look at

1:17 | the new conservative plan to seize total

1:20 | control and what it means for the future

1:22 | of the country brace yourself okay

1:25 | project 2025 what is it spearheaded by

1:29 | the Heritage Foundation project 2025 is

1:32 | a massive 920 page conservative

1:35 | Manifesto detailing how they intend to

1:36 | give the president vasle more power

1:38 | destroy bureaucracy root out woke

1:40 | propaganda appoint vetted far-right

1:42 | Freedom Fighters at every level of

1:44 | government and have it all ready to

1:46 | implement the day the next conservative

1:47 | president is elected which they assume

1:50 | will be 2025 hence the name despite

1:52 | Trump obviously being the favorite the

1:54 | plan is not dependent on any particular

1:56 | candidate winning but can be implemented

1:58 | with any figurehead at the the Reigns

2:00 | who will become essentially completely

2:02 | unaccountable God Emperor was supposed

2:04 | to be a joke but here we are you may

2:07 | have seen this book floating around

2:08 | online the Mandate for leadership this

2:11 | is what most people assume project 2025

2:13 | to be but this is actually just one part

2:16 | of a much larger conservative master

2:18 | plan project 2025 has four core pillars

2:22 | first the policy as outlined in the 920

2:25 | page document this is where all the

2:27 | heinous and frankly disturbing policy

2:29 | proposal live and don’t worry we’ll look

2:31 | at some of those in a bit two the

2:34 | Personnel database which has been

2:35 | described as the conservative LinkedIn

2:38 | as if LinkedIn wasn’t cringe enough

2:39 | already this will be a repository for

2:41 | conservative rums from people across all

2:43 | sectors and from all walks of life to be

2:46 | selected as needed to staff positions in

2:48 | every level of government at both the

2:49 | federal and state level three training

2:53 | they’ve got a new online Institute

2:55 | basically prageru but for people who

2:56 | like to wear poorly tailored suits and

2:58 | fantasize about rolling back back

2:59 | environmental regulations this training

3:02 | program will create willing and able

3:04 | soldiers to serve on the front lines in

3:06 | the war on the woke cabal of the deep

3:08 | State and finally four The 180-day

3:12 | Playbook a step-by-step guide for the

3:14 | new conservative Emperor to

3:15 | systematically implement the policies

3:17 | listed in the manifesto think Ikea

3:19 | assembly instructions but for fascism

3:22 | these four pillars are the key

3:24 | components of the project and taken

3:26 | together they offer a pretty

3:28 | comprehensive vision for the dystopian

3:29 | future the right hopes to usher in it’s

3:31 | all pretty alarming but where exactly

3:35 | does this come from let’s take a look at

3:37 | some of the names behind the project if

3:40 | you flip through the first pages of the

3:41 | PDF because let’s be honest we’re not

3:44 | about to give the Heritage Foundation 35

3:46 | bucks you’ll find a list of far-right

3:48 | think tanks advisory groups and business

3:50 | and government figures who contributed

3:51 | to the project some of the names include

3:53 | Donald Divine once called by The

3:55 | Washington Post Reagan’s terrible Swift

3:57 | sword of the civil service for his

3:59 | eagerness to SL spending and fire people

4:02 | Steven Moore the well-known conservative

4:04 | author and right-wing Economist with

4:05 | such credentials as working for the very

4:07 | legitimate Freedom works and serving as

4:09 | a Fox News contributor and Peter Navaro

4:11 | who is notable for being one of just

4:13 | three people who worked with Trump for

4:14 | the duration of his term without being

4:16 | fired he’s also a little bit obsessed

4:19 | with China having written three truly

4:21 | awful books on the subject the coming

4:23 | China Wars death by China and Crouching

4:26 | Tiger the manifesto credits 35 total

4:29 | authors as well as dozens of

4:31 | contributors all with their credentials

4:33 | listed it’s about what you’d expect a

4:35 | lot of people from the Heritage

4:36 | Foundation some military goons a

4:38 | smattering of former Trump officials

4:40 | extremist economists and a considerable

4:42 | number of people who have worked in

4:44 | climate energy immigration and legal

4:46 | positions under conservative governments

4:48 | what you won’t see a lot of in the

4:49 | acknowledgements is religious

4:51 | credentials which you’d think would be

4:53 | important given how much the document

4:55 | leans on Christian language this should

4:57 | be your first indication that maybe the

4:59 | the people who loudly Proclaim their

5:01 | faith aren’t really all that Christian

5:03 | and they’re just using it to win brownie

5:05 | points among their religious

5:06 | conservative audience there’s actually a

5:08 | lot of overlap here with the topic of

5:09 | our last video on Christian nationalism

5:12 | these people use religious rhetoric but

5:14 | a little bit of digging reveals that the

5:16 | god they pray to is not the god of the

5:18 | Bible but a mythologized vision of

5:20 | America itself much like fascists

5:22 | throughout history have relied on a

5:24 | glorious false past to act as a North

5:26 | star to guide them into the promised

5:27 | land so too have Americans fascist wrap

5:30 | themselves in comforting mythology

5:31 | proving that what they are doing is not

5:33 | only just but divinely inspired when you

5:37 | have a higher power on your side it’s

5:39 | pretty easy to justify horrific acts

5:42 | okay with the brains behind the project

5:44 | out of the way let’s get into the

5:46 | nitty-gritty what exactly do these

5:48 | people want what’s their end goal well

5:51 | there are four main priorities in their

5:54 | words they want to one restore the

5:57 | family as the centerpiece of American

5:59 | Life and protect our children two

6:02 | dismantle the administrative State and

6:03 | return self-governance to the American

6:05 | people three defend our nation’s

6:08 | sovereignty borders and Bounty against

6:10 | Global threats and four secure our

6:13 | god-given individual rights to live

6:15 | freely what our constitution calls the

6:17 | blessings of liberty okay you can

6:20 | probably already see where some of this

6:21 | is going but let’s start with the boring

6:23 | stuff the nuts and bolts of manipulating

6:26 | the federal government to serve the

6:27 | right a lot of this project centers

6:30 | around gutting What’s called the

6:31 | administrative State this is stuff like

6:33 | the EPA FEMA HUD the FED stuff like that

6:37 | the hum drum logistical stuff that

6:39 | nonetheless often plays an important

6:40 | role or sometimes not looking at you DHS

6:45 | there’s a lot of this stuff so much so

6:48 | that it’s often called the fourth branch

6:49 | of government and it deals with the

6:51 | day-to-day operations of the country

6:53 | everything from transportation to

6:54 | environmental regulations food and water

6:56 | safety and so on most of these agencies

6:59 | are created when a law is passed that

7:01 | makes people think hm there really

7:03 | should be a group of people responsible

7:04 | for making sure food is safe for

7:07 | consumption or whatever the government

7:09 | slaps together an elite team of nerds

7:11 | that is to say subject matter experts

7:13 | people who actually know what they’re

7:14 | talking about and there you go you’ve

7:16 | got the FDA the FDA then takes over the

7:19 | task of enforcing whatever regulations

7:20 | they come up with in administrative

7:22 | courts but this is all really boring all

7:25 | you need to know is that a lot fewer

7:27 | people die because the FDA exists and we

7:29 | have fewer polluted rivers and extinct

7:31 | species because the EPA exists

7:33 | conservatives don’t really like rules in

7:35 | general especially rules that protect

7:37 | the environment or poor people so these

7:39 | agencies need to go it’s not good enough

7:42 | that the president can appoint the heads

7:43 | of these admin agencies for example

7:45 | Trump appointing a fossil fuel executive

7:47 | to head the EPA no conservatives want

7:49 | complete power over everyone in these

7:52 | agencies because right now the subject

7:54 | matter experts at say the EPA are not

7:57 | beholden to politics they just come to

7:59 | work work and try to figure out how to

8:00 | protect snails or something much of the

8:04 | argument here centers around whether

8:06 | these agencies are constitutional

8:08 | conservatives like to claim that since

8:10 | the Constitution didn’t explicitly say

8:12 | federal agencies like these were part of

8:13 | their master plan their government

8:15 | overreach and should be dismantled

8:18 | historically federal courts have

8:19 | disagreed with this assessment so until

8:21 | now we can rest assured that our milk

8:23 | has been pasteurized and our water isn’t

8:25 | contaminated with lead but here’s the

8:28 | thing with the whole con

8:29 | constitutionality argument who cares

8:32 | most countries around the world scrap

8:34 | their constitutions entirely when the

8:35 | people decide they’re no longer relevant

8:37 | or they need to be overhauled only the

8:39 | United States has this weird reverence

8:41 | for the Constitution and the founding

8:43 | fathers part of that is due to the

8:45 | relatively Short history of the country

8:47 | the US has only really existed for a

8:49 | couple hundred years when you look

8:51 | around the world and see some of your

8:52 | peer Nations have a couple thousand

8:54 | years of History you might feel the need

8:56 | to mythologize your past just a little

8:58 | bit to make your nation seems special

9:00 | the founding fathers have been elevated

9:02 | to Godlike status especially among

9:04 | conservatives but the truth is they were

9:06 | a bunch of Frat Boys okay not all of

9:09 | them Ben Franklin was 70 and Washington

9:11 | was 44 but a lot of them dear viewer are

9:14 | younger than you are right now Alexander

9:16 | Hamilton the one with the annoying fan

9:18 | club he was 21 and he wasn’t even the

9:21 | youngest anyway the point is when you

9:23 | look at historical events without the

9:25 | rose tint of Mythology you see a bunch

9:28 | of normal people just kind of making it

9:29 | up as they go along it’s normal that

9:32 | things change over the centuries what’s

9:35 | considered constitutional should reflect

9:37 | the values and Norms of the time that

9:40 | little tangent aside let’s get back to

9:42 | the goals of project 2025 we talked

9:44 | about the boring stuff wanting to gut

9:46 | the administrative state but what else

9:48 | is in there it’s 920 Pages after all

9:50 | they’ve got to have some other ideas

9:53 | well a lot of it is what you might

9:55 | expect As Trump stated on numerous

9:58 | occasions they want want to kick the

9:59 | cultural marxists out of the Department

10:01 | of Education demolish the Deep State and

10:03 | combat woke ideology at all levels of

10:06 | government they plan to do this by

10:08 | making extensive use of schedule F A

10:10 | piece of legislation established at the

10:11 | federal level by Trump which allows the

10:13 | president to fire federal government

10:15 | officials at will presumably for not

10:17 | sufficiently bending the knee the

10:19 | project calls for an executive branch

10:21 | with essentially unchecked power making

10:23 | the president basically unaccountable to

10:25 | Congress they want to dismantle the

10:26 | liberal system to build one more

10:28 | favorable to conserv atives that means

10:30 | scrapping Environmental Protections

10:31 | moving away from globalism punishing

10:33 | corporations for Dei language which is

10:36 | funny because it sounds like they

10:37 | actually think these corporations

10:39 | genuinely believe their Dei statements

10:41 | they want to escalate tensions with

10:42 | China by ending economic engagement

10:44 | entirely crack down on immigration

10:46 | criminalize LGBT expression they claim

10:49 | that any talk of gender gender identity

10:51 | and so on is pornography and should be

10:53 | banned and has no First Amendment

10:55 | protections they want to scrap labor

10:57 | discrimination policies quote maintain a

10:59 | biblically based social science

11:01 | reinforced definition of family meaning

11:03 | scrap protections for same-sex marriage

11:05 | and plan to quote secure our god-given

11:07 | individual rights to live freely unless

11:10 | forementioned groups they intend to

11:12 | criminalize out of

11:14 | existence in that vein to touch very

11:16 | briefly on their views on pornography if

11:19 | you read the text they basically just

11:20 | mean any discussion of gender abortion

11:23 | or any identity other than straight and

11:25 | cisgender they want all instances of

11:28 | this kind of language stripped from

11:30 | society while it’s a little cliche to

11:32 | compare the conservatives to Nazis you

11:34 | know what books were the first to be

11:35 | burned which institutions were the first

11:37 | to be shuttered books on gender and

11:39 | sexuality and institutions that studied

11:42 | these topics but okay we know elected

11:45 | conservatives are like one step removed

11:47 | from outright fascism at this point but

11:49 | how are they justifying this yes we all

11:52 | know they just forced this stuff through

11:54 | if they could but at least for now they

11:57 | still have to play by the rules of West

11:58 | Western liberalism so the key to their

12:01 | plan is to lean on unitary executive

12:04 | Theory which dates back to the Devil

12:05 | Himself Ronald

12:07 | Reagan in a nutshell this political

12:10 | Theory suggests that maybe having three

12:12 | separate but equal branches of

12:13 | government isn’t a good idea and that

12:16 | instead the executive branch should

12:17 | dominate the

12:19 | relationship Reagan’s team came up with

12:21 | this notion to help facilitate

12:23 | deregulation and it kind of just stuck

12:25 | every president since Reagan has made

12:27 | use of this Theory to wield just a

12:28 | little bit more power than they probably

12:30 | should have Bush Jr justifying his

12:32 | invasion of Iraq Obama justifying

12:34 | widespread us deployment overseas

12:36 | Trump’s Muslim ban and so on now the

12:39 | project 2025 ghouls want to make sure

12:41 | the president has essentially unchecked

12:43 | power that Congress cannot prevent the

12:45 | president from doing what they want to

12:47 | do however heinous their pet projects

12:49 | may be there’s a whole conversation

12:52 | about unitary executive theory in

12:53 | government circles people are writing

12:55 | books about it and having very important

12:57 | conversations with very smart people and

13:00 | you know what that’s what makes this so

13:02 | scary the Republicans talk a big game

13:05 | about destroying cultural Marxism or

13:07 | Waging War on woke but that’s just

13:09 | Bluster when they start coming up with

13:11 | justifications within the liberal

13:13 | framework the Democrats will cave like

13:15 | they always do every single time we see

13:18 | them play ball with the far right they

13:20 | seed a little more ground each time then

13:23 | you get a president like Biden who just

13:25 | straight up accelerates the process by

13:27 | speeding up border wall Construction C

13:29 | approving a record number of oil

13:30 | drilling permits and then when he

13:32 | inevitably loses because everyone is

13:33 | upset with him the project 2025 people

13:36 | swoop in and the Democrats just go along

13:38 | with it because it’s technically legal

13:40 | not to do it again but most fascists

13:43 | throughout history have come into power

13:45 | through technically legal means and then

13:47 | they change what’s legal so you can’t

13:49 | get them out

13:52 | again well that’s all pretty Grim huh

13:54 | what’s the solution here do we just vote

13:56 | harder no I mean do that that if you

13:59 | want especially if you think you can

14:00 | make a difference at the local level but

14:02 | things have gotten worse for us with

14:04 | every single president and things have

14:06 | certainly gotten worse for people living

14:08 | in the third world as the US gets more

14:10 | and more vicious abroad as our Empire

14:12 | declines the solution is the same as

14:15 | it’s always been mass movements join an

14:18 | organization unionize your workplace

14:20 | learn to defend yourself and your

14:22 | community from fascist vigilante

14:23 | violence keep yourself safe online learn

14:26 | your rights educate yourself and those

14:28 | around you things like project 2025

14:31 | don’t happen in a vacuum there is an

14:33 | economic base to these developments the

14:36 | US is losing ground on the world stage

14:38 | and will soon be superseded by China as

14:40 | the dominant economic power domestically

14:43 | the average worker is worse off now than

14:44 | in living memory we can’t afford the

14:46 | skyrocketing cost of housing food Health

14:49 | Care utilities everything is going up

14:52 | except wages we have no mandated paid

14:54 | sick leave or parental leave we have no

14:56 | benefits no labor protections no CH for

14:59 | advancement as more and more companies

15:00 | move to the gig model of employment

15:03 | these are structural problems caused by

15:05 | the very nature of capitalism run the

15:08 | simulation a thousand times and will end

15:10 | up right here every single time the race

15:13 | for endlessly increasing profits result

15:15 | in Monopoly over acccumulation a falling

15:17 | rate of profit economic desperation

15:20 | among the masses and a surge of reaction

15:22 | that carries fascism to the very top you

15:25 | want a different result break the

15:27 | machine that powers the societal evils

15:30 | if capitalism is allowed to survive we

15:32 | will

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