The word “fascist” has gained a certain cachet for the left much like the smear “racist” once was. The New Republic magazine has illustrated the label by portraying Donald Trump as Hitler.
Project 2025 makes four promises (specifics are under each one):
Promise 1:" Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children." This includes doing away with all but two genders, DEI, and other ideas imposed on the country by unelected bureaucrats, and national school choice.
Promise 2: “Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.” The writers explain that “Conservatives desire a smaller government not for its own sake, but for the sake of human flourishing. But the Washington Establishment doesn’t want a constitutionally limited government because it means they lose power and are held more accountable by the people who put them in power.”
This recalls the philosophy of our 30th president, Calvin Coolidge, who said, " A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government, or long remain as such."
Promise 3: “Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.” Is there anyone but liars and the self-deluded who doesn’t believe we have a border problem?
Promise 4: “Secure our God-given individual right to enjoy 'the blessing of liberty,” by which they mean “Our Constitution grants each of us the liberty to do not what we want, but what we ought.” Restoring oughtness requires the resurrection of a standard by which right and wrong, good and evil can be measured. This begins in our schools and universities which have largely abandoned that standard with results we see in academic underperformance and the violation of laws, sometimes leading to campus violence as we witnessed this spring.