But Not In Name

Yes, Trump will embrace some of the parts of Project 2025, but not necessarily in name. What he embraces in the name of Project 2025 may infect him as a loser in a divided Republican electorate, which is also comprised of elites and commoners with vastly differing prospects under Trump 2.0. 

Tax cuts are a cinch, but maybe some or many of them will be hidden in the complex tax code. Tariffs on consumer goods equals inflation for the members of his expanded base who are angry about so-called Biden inflation and voted for Trump. 

Trump economic policy needs to avoid a renaming here to Trumped up Inflation or Trumpa-nomics. Moreover, the Affordable Care Act is also minefield for Republicans. Does he want to see the many millions of working-class Republicans lose their health care? The proletariat can't afford this. Well, maybe Mexico will pay for it...

Speaking of paying, remember the mid-term elections under Trump's first term. The Republicans got clobbered. Trump and the Republicans are speeding down that road again leading to the next Blue Wave mid-terms...

--Ken Zino

Prelude to Oligarchy

Whether P25 gets implemented immediately or not, it looks like P47 will be marked as the first phase of a technocratic oligarchy that may last for a long, long time regardless of who is POTUS. Musk, Bezos, Ellison, and Thiel together control enormous amounts of money and technology, and they are going to become the rulers of the United States through social media and other means, buying up candidates one by one until they own all of them and we don’t have any political power because we have no voice and no money.

--Jim McCraw