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Trump's transition team turns to Project 2025 after disavowing it during the campaign (www.nbcnews.com)

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Summary

Despite disavowing Project 2025 during the campaign, Trump’s transition team is now using its extensive database of vetted conservative candidates to help fill over 4,000 government positions.

Project 2025, criticized for its extreme policy proposals and links to Trump’s first administration, created a “conservative LinkedIn” of 10,000 candidates.

While some contributors are being tapped for key roles, others face rejection due to controversial stances.

Democrats, who used Project 2025 in campaign attacks, are warning of its influence on Trump’s agenda and planning policy responses.

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[+] spacecadet@lemm.ee -8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Most of America doesn’t give a shit about California women’s right to an abortion, or that transgenders should be allowed in whatever bathroom they want, or that Trump is “weird”. They care about “am I better off now than I was last year?” And the answer for a lot of people is “no”. They look at the democrats brag about unemployment rates being low and that is inflation is brought under control, while most of America is still paying $5 for eggs that used to be $2. Everyday middle Americans can no longer afford simple things and their kids are worse off than they are. I know this problem wasn’t wholly created by Biden, Harris, or even Trump, but Americans felt like Harris didn’t care about their plight and that her upper class California woman self was really unrelatable. Then Harris spends a lot time trying to get celebrity endorsements and she is so out of touch that she didn’t realize celebrity endorsements actually lose you votes. People don’t care what Beyonce and Cardi B think about politics, well not the smart people or the people’s vote you actually need.

[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago

Celebrities aside they were parading Cheney and Bush around... These were the "vote blue no matter who" enemies of 20 years ago. Who wants to vote for a party that'll brag about Barron Trump's endorsement in 20 more years?

You can't run on not being your opponent. You can't fight a status quo disruptive candidate from the far right with bland centrist positions. People wanted change, only one party offered change.

Yes people are dumb, yes their faces will be eaten, yes to all of those things. But Democrats still lost. Trump didn't win, Harris lost.

Now they'll go even more right and wonder why nobody is excited to get out to vote.

The right wing already had a good candidate. Where's the left wing candidate?

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

transgenders

Not much of an LGBT ally, I presume? It's pretty dehumanizing to call transgender individuals that, as though they're not people.

[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

The dominant forces in the Democratic party are more likely to abandon trans people than to shift left.

A big part of the problem is that Democrat supporters are overwhelmingly politically inactive. Instead of shushing anti-genocide voices, climate protestors, etc. they should be joining and amplifying those voices not just around election time but always, constantly.

The DNC will always fast-track a centrist candidate and suppress progressive candidates if there's no political pressure outside of election time. They get their money from the same people that the Republicans do.

"Vote blue no matter who" and voting as the only political action guarantee the ratchet effect.

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