Suddenly a rash of stories is out claiming that the Heritage Foundation and other Christian Nationalist groups are stepping away from Project 2025, their alarming plan to remake America along theocratic lines.
Call me skeptical. The only reason these groups are pretending to do this is because the whole thing backfired on them: The American people saw what was in Project 2025 and recoiled. So now we’re supposed to believe that the Christian Nationalists don’t really mean it.
Sorry, no backsies. Sure, Heritage and its theocrats in arms will shuffle a few people around and claim to be shutting down the project. Don’t fall for that. The truth is, Heritage has been issuing political playbooks like this every four years at least since 1980. Turning America into a place where plutocrats and theocrats stroll happily arm in arm through a dystopian hellscape where The Handmaid’s Tale merges with Atlas Shrugged has been their goal from day one. The Project 2025 playbook laid it all out, and this year it just happened to get a lot more attention.
Christian Nationalists have never been shy about putting their agenda out there. We know what it is because they told us: Taxpayer-funded private religious schools funded through vouchers instead of public education. Marriage equality erased and LGBTQ+ rights trashed. Religion-based discrimination in taxpayer-funded programs and private, for-profit businesses. No right to abortion and no access to birth control. A government that embraces right-wing, fundamentalist Christianity at every turn.
Heritage and other extremists have worked for these goals for decades. And now we’re supposed to believe they don’t really mean it because the heat is on?
No, no – they’re real, and they mean it. The fact that Christian Nationalists are trying to bury Project 2025 and tell America, “Nothing to see here, pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” is proof only of their duplicitous nature. (Remember, these are people whose chief political law is, “The ends justify the means.” That’s not from the Bible, by the way.)
Folks, the good news is that we’ve got them on the run. The American people have seen this extreme blueprint for an America free of church-state separation, an America where dour neo-Puritans who worship at the First Church Of We’re Right So We Get To Tell You What To Do roam the land looking for moral offenders to stone (figuratively, I hope) – and the people don’t like it one bit.
So, keep spreading the word. It’s working. And remember, when it comes to material that exposes the extreme, un-American nature of Project 2025, Americans United has you covered!
Photo: People in New York City rally July 27 against Project 2025 and Christian Nationalism
