Let’s get this one over with.  Yes, President Biden had a terrible debate night.  Yes, he didn’t look well.  Has this happened since that debate?  Are some Democrats beginning to feel that they want someone else to run?  If so, does this one event make him the wrong person for the job?  If so, is it his age?  If 81 is way too old, what happens when (if he wins) former President Trump turns 81 for the better part of his third year back at the job and 82 for all his last?  Of course, I know that if he wins, there will not be another president.

And what about Trump’s 30-plus lies during the debate?  What about his speeches where he mentions sharks (not loan or investment) and electric boats sinking?  How about Hannibal Lecter being a wonderful man though he’s just a character in a movie?  And the statement that he won Wisconsin in the 2020 election?  Is it true and not off the wall when he makes these types of statements but when Biden has a bad night it is something no one can stand?  Let’s not focus on this, however, and look at another topic of interest.

We have been hearing a lot about Project 2025 recently.  In a past article, I wrote about it myself and left my readers a link to it.  But now that this document has come to the forefront, it is a good time to look through it.  After all, it means the end of democracy and isn’t afraid to say so.  Even former President Trump is afraid of it (at least us finding out about it) since he has mentioned that he knows nothing of it.  And even if he didn’t like it does anyone think that if he becomes president again that he’ll have the backbone to prevent it from being implemented?  After all, he would thereby become the king, autocrat, and/or dictator he wants to be.  That type of person he admires in other countries.

So, what do we need to know about Project 2025?  First, and foremost, we need to understand the president of the Heritage Foundation, Dr. Kevin Roberts when he says the following:

"[W]e are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be," Roberts said, declaring that "the radical left" was "apoplectic" because "our side is winning."  See www.axios.com/2024/07/05/trump-project-2025-heritage-foundation.

Do his words shake-up anyone?  Do we want a revolution to keep our democracy?  Isn’t this more of a civil war, not a revolution?  Another brother against brother confrontation?  Then we have Mr. Trump saying he knows nothing of this project.  Here is a part of his speech at a Heritage Foundation gathering in 2022.  The following can be found at www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-video-project-2025-colossal-mandate/ :

“Because our country is going to hell. The critical job of institutions such as Heritage is to lay the groundwork. And Heritage does such an incredible job at that. And I'm telling you, with Kevin and the staff, and I met so many of them now, I took pictures with among the most handsome, beautiful people I've ever seen. I didn't like that picture. If you could lose that picture, please would you Kevin? But this is a great… No, he says I won't do that. But this is a great group. And they're going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do and what your movement will do when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America and that's coming. That's coming. Because nobody can stand what's happening right now. Only a fool, only a fool or somebody that hates our country can like what's happening right now. Never been in this position before and already we know a very big part of our agenda.”

Though he doesn’t mention Project 2025, he does say that the Heritage Foundation is a great group, and they will lay the groundwork and detail plans for what his movement will do and what his agenda will be.  That groundwork IS Project 2025.

Now let’s begin to see what the project will do.  To those that read often, the Project 2025 document is still a formidable read.  From the little I have read so far, it reads like a legal paper but not with language to clarify, but with language to blind, confuse, muddy, and complicate.  I feel most of the “unconstitutional” actions of our government in the last 40 years have come from the conservative side though they are touted in the Project 2025 document as liberal failures.  There are also parts that make sense, but so far, they are minimal.  Again, though, you need to read it yourself to form your own thoughts.  I do not tout myself as a constitutional or even a legal scholar.  You can find this document in a PDF form at: static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf.

One profound question I have is this:  Why is this a 922-page document explaining what each section of the Constitution means when the Constitution is but a mere pamphlet which has gotten us through the last 237 years?  Does an excess of language attain an easy read, find the true meaning?  Does this document then plot out a course that everyone can agree with and follow that aligns with the true meaning of our forefathers in our most sacred document our United States Constitution?  In my next article I will take a few broad statements in the Project 2025 document and see if you and I can think through these to find out what their path may look like for us.

Postscript:  As I was writing this article, I heard about the incident at former President Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.  Thankfully, Mr. Trump is okay, and my prayers go out to him and his family.  Sadly, there was a life lost.  Corey Comperatore was protecting his wife and daughters shielding them from the shots.  This was the most selfless act of heroism, and he will be remembered by me, and his family is in my prayers.