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Robert J. Antonio

Implementing Project 2025: Day One and After

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I won’t be a dictator, “except on day one” – Donald Trump Axios (Basu & Davis, 2024) holds that President Trump promised to make 59 major policy changes the first day of his second term. The president’s declaration about limiting dictatorship to “day one” may lack veracity, but he has followed through on many of…

Project 2025: Trumpism and the New Conservatism

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The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 proposes hard-right policies aligned closely with former President Trump’s “America First” agenda and is designed to eliminate the guardrails that stemmed his authoritarian tendencies in his first term. Project 2025 advocates and plans an unparalleled concentration of presidential power in a Trump second term. It reflects major shifts at Heritage…