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they don't have any real mechanism for implementing it unless it's something that Trump already wants to do.
But I think this is what makes Trump so dangerous. Trump doesn’t really want to do anything that doesn’t involve making money for Trump or having people shower him with accolades. Specifically, I don’t think he has much interest in actually governing.
Now in comes the Heritage Project with an actual plan for governing. They will do all the hard work of finding people to fill all of the posts that a President needs. Cabinet secretaries. Department heads. Ambassadors. Judges.
Keep in mind that the Heritage Project, along with the Federalist Society, have been wildly successful in helping Republican administrations find USSC and lower court nominees over the last two or three decades. So this isn’t anything new for them.
Of course, those people will be aligned with the Heritage Project ideas for governing. And that is exactly how they will govern unless Trump intervenes. As long as those individual appointees toss accolades on Trump from time to time, he will likely let them do what they want.
So I strongly disagree that Project 2025 would proceed only if Trump wants it to. They WILL proceed, except in places Trump stops them.
—Peter
