Project 2025 Authoritarian Playbook Revealed

The Project 2025 author­i­tar­i­an blue­print rep­re­sents a com­pre­hen­sive far-right roadmap to reshape Amer­i­can democ­ra­cy into a Chris­t­ian nation­al­ist state under expand­ed exec­u­tive pow­er. On 27 Octo­ber 2025, the Glob­al Project Against Hate and Extrem­ism report­ed that the 900-plus page man­i­festo spear­head­ed by the Her­itage Foun­da­tion and backed by more than 100 extreme orga­ni­za­tions out­lines plans to dis­man­tle civ­il lib­er­ties, gut the civ­il ser­vice, and impose Chris­t­ian nation­al­ist poli­cies on every aspect of pub­lic life. The arti­cle begins:

In antic­i­pa­tion of a con­ser­v­a­tive win­ning the 2024 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, the well-fund­ed far-right move­ment open­ly out­lined its vision for an “ide­al” Amer­i­ca in its Project 2025 900+-page man­i­festo. Spear­head­ed by the far-right think tank Her­itage Foun­da­tion and backed by more than 100 extreme orga­ni­za­tions, Project 2025 is more than a blue­print for Chris­t­ian nation­al­ism and authoritarianism—it is an active agen­da. With Trump back in office, and dozens of Project 2025 archi­tects appoint­ed to senior gov­ern­ment posi­tions, the rights-strip­ping, anti-demo­c­ra­t­ic plan is rapid­ly becom­ing real­i­ty. Their aims include “bring­ing togeth­er con­ser­v­a­tive allies with a com­mon goal: to take back our coun­try from the rad­i­cal Left by devel­op­ing a robust gov­ern­ing agen­da and the right peo­ple to imple­ment it.” With­in weeks of tak­ing office, Trump issued sweep­ing exec­u­tive orders, attempt­ing to grab more pow­er for him­self and the exec­u­tive branch. The dis­man­tling of fed­er­al agen­cies and fir­ing of tens of thou­sands civ­il ser­vants has accel­er­at­ed the far-right and author­i­tar­i­an takeover of gov­ern­ment insti­tu­tions that will hurt ordi­nary Americans.

Read more: https://globalextremism.org/project-2025-the-far-right-playbook-for-american-authoritarianism/

Key Points

• Project 2025 advo­cates politi­ciz­ing inde­pen­dent insti­tu­tions by replac­ing the fed­er­al bureau­cra­cy with con­ser­v­a­tive activists and remov­ing agency inde­pen­dence to serve far-right ide­o­log­i­cal goals.
• The author­i­tar­i­an blue­print tar­gets the Depart­ment of Jus­tice and FBI for pres­i­den­tial con­trol over inves­ti­ga­tions and pros­e­cu­tions, threat­en­ing the inde­pen­dence of law enforce­ment from polit­i­cal influence.
• The man­i­festo pro­motes Chris­t­ian nation­al­ist ideals to shape gov­ern­ment pol­i­cy, assert­ing that Amer­i­ca should be rec­og­nized as a Chris­t­ian nation where rights and duties come from God.
• The plan sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly erodes rights for LGBTQ+ peo­ple, immi­grants, women, and peo­ple of col­or while elim­i­nat­ing vot­ing rights pro­tec­tions, repro­duc­tive free­dom, and racial equi­ty efforts.

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025: Building a Global National Conservative Alliance

Project 2025, launched in 2022 by the Her­itage Foun­da­tion under pres­i­dent Kevin Roberts, con­sti­tutes a sprawl­ing 900-page blue­print titled “Man­date for Lead­er­ship 2025: The Con­ser­v­a­tive Promise” designed to remake the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment under nation­al­ist pri­or­i­ties. The ini­tia­tive includes per­son­nel data­bas­es vet­ting loy­al­ists, train­ing mod­ules for appointees, agency play­books for imple­men­ta­tion, and spe­cif­ic poli­cies aimed at con­sol­i­dat­ing exec­u­tive pow­er. Accord­ing to analy­sis by Time, near­ly two-thirds of Trump’s exec­u­tive actions in his sec­ond term mir­ror or par­tial­ly mir­ror Project 2025 pro­pos­als, despite Trump’s attempts to dis­tance him­self from the plan dur­ing the 2024 campaign.

The project rep­re­sents Her­itage’s trans­for­ma­tion from a prag­mat­ic pol­i­cy shop into the insti­tu­tion­al core of today’s nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive move­ment, mark­ing a sharp break from Rea­gan-era con­ser­vatism. Beyond domes­tic restruc­tur­ing, Her­itage has pro­posed sweep­ing gov­ern­ment inter­ven­tion through what it calls a “Man­hat­tan Project to restore the nuclear fam­i­ly,” cre­at­ing gov­ern­ment-seed­ed sav­ings accounts exclu­sive­ly for mar­ried cou­ples and redi­rect­ing child­care fund­ing from Head Start pro­grams toward pro­mot­ing stay-at-home par­ent­ing. Some Her­itage staff crit­i­cized these pro­pos­als as “eugen­ics” and “social engi­neer­ing” that reverse gen­der equal­i­ty progress.

In June 2025, Her­itage released a report call­ing for estab­lish­ing a glob­al alliance of con­ser­v­a­tive, nation­al­ist, and pop­ulist move­ments to counter the transna­tion­al left­’s insti­tu­tion­al dom­i­nance, align­ing pre­cise­ly with the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance frame­work. Fol­low­ing Project 2025’s domes­tic imple­men­ta­tion, Her­itage con­vened a March 2025 closed-door work­shop fea­tur­ing pro­pos­als to dis­man­tle the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion and Euro­pean Court of Jus­tice. The work­shop includ­ed Hun­gar­i­an gov­ern­ment-backed MCC and Pol­ish group Ordo Iuris, with Her­itage pres­i­dent Roberts explic­it­ly call­ing for Euro­peans to “reclaim sov­er­eign­ty” from Brussels.

The ini­tia­tive has coor­di­nat­ed with over 100 con­ser­v­a­tive orga­ni­za­tions and received sub­stan­tial dark mon­ey fund­ing from net­works linked to Leonard Leo, who guid­ed Trump’s judi­cial nom­i­nees. Many Project 2025 con­trib­u­tors worked in Trump’s first admin­is­tra­tion or his 2024 cam­paign, with sev­er­al archi­tects now appoint­ed to posi­tions in his sec­ond admin­is­tra­tion. The pro­jec­t’s prona­tal­ist fam­i­ly poli­cies and transna­tion­al ambi­tions reflect a broad­er ide­o­log­i­cal shift toward demo­graph­ic nation­al­ism and oppo­si­tion to lib­er­al democ­ra­cy across con­ser­v­a­tive move­ments worldwide.

Exter­nal References:
— Project 2025 — Wikipedia
— Her­itage Foun­da­tion and Allies Dis­cuss Dis­man­tling the EU — DeSmog
— Dona­tions have surged to groups linked to con­ser­v­a­tive Project 2025 — NBC News

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