created by secondrunnerup on 31/01/2025 at 23:19 UTC
198 upvotes, 32 top-level comments (showing 25)
It seems like project 2025 is being implemented at lightning speed so what are its weaknesses? As in, what aspects of the plan are short sighted or not well thought out? Where might the plan be held up and fail? What does this look like post-trump?
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Comment by KraverWP at 01/02/2025 at 02:52 UTC
293 upvotes, 8 direct replies
The fact that most Americans don’t like it seems like a pretty big weakness to me.
Comment by NepheliLouxWarrior at 01/02/2025 at 03:22 UTC
235 upvotes, 16 direct replies
Republicans are likely going to get obliterated in the midterms, dooming Trump to mostly be a lame duck president afterwards. Also, if the GOP is dumb enough to destroy the filibuster once and for all in order to push forward their goals, then they'll REALLY be eating shit once the lose the house and/or senate.
Comment by aarongamemaster at 01/02/2025 at 02:56 UTC
60 upvotes, 4 direct replies
The reality is that 2025 requires the military and intelligence agencies to back it.
... and the GOP has burned their bridges for them.
Comment by j250ex at 01/02/2025 at 13:58 UTC
17 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I think trump has spent all his political capital with his base. Even the conservative talk shows here in Atlanta were talking about the impact of the tariffs and saying how bad of an idea they were. And that’s saying something.
Comment by CorneliusCardew at 01/02/2025 at 02:31 UTC
106 upvotes, 2 direct replies
The thing most going in our favor is that Republicans are selfish and stupid and will start betraying each other in short order.
Comment by _flyingmonkeys_ at 01/02/2025 at 05:13 UTC
43 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Only half of the American public cares? The other half thinks it's great or doesn't know better
Comment by ttkciar at 01/02/2025 at 04:46 UTC
29 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The main weakness posed by Project 2025 is that in order to make implementing it feasible, conservative politicians and media have had to divorce conservative constituents from reality and cultivate in them a vulnerability to certain kinds of propaganda.
We should be hitting them in that weak spot, hard. It shouldn't be too difficult to get their constituents to believe Trump and his cronies are in cahoots with the reptillian overlords, running human trafficking out of Mar-A-Lago, and trying to steal their freedoms with 5G radio waves.
That would make it in Republican legislators' best interests to publicly oppose the Trump administration. Since they hold a majority in both houses, that would be more valuable than opposition from Democratic legislators.
Comment by blu13god at 01/02/2025 at 15:09 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The weakness is they aren't aligned in values.
You have the old Tucker Carlson Alex Jones Sean Hannity people who are guzzling trump but then you have the old Reagan traditional conservatives and then you have the anti woke liberals like Joe Rogan and Theo von and then you have the tech bros like Elon Musk. They are all aligned in worshipping trump but once that is gone there is no cohesive set of values they all believe in.
Comment by OtherBluesBrother at 01/02/2025 at 05:16 UTC
27 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's major weakness is that it depends on Trump wining the election. If he doesn't get into office, then none of this shit will happen. I hope everyone is aware of this.
(checks calendar)
Oh fuck.
Comment by vagabondvisions at 01/02/2025 at 12:05 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You mean apart from the misogyny, bigotry, and fascist aspects of it all? Aside from all that?
Comment by Hypatia333 at 01/02/2025 at 03:16 UTC
19 upvotes, 0 direct replies
That it's unconstitutional, illegal, stupid, bat shit insane, oppressive, elitist, racist, bat shit insane, antibiblical, radical, fascist and did I mention...
bat shit insane?
Comment by midwestguy125 at 01/02/2025 at 18:25 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
So much of it could bring the economy into a recession. I thought maybe if they do one or two of their main campaign promises we could possibly be ok. But they are implementing everything, and I don't know how we don't go into a recession.
Comment by MileyKatz at 01/02/2025 at 18:25 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The biggest weakness is that the majority of Americans don't want this crap!
Comment by DepartmentSudden5234 at 01/02/2025 at 14:13 UTC*
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Human nature. Once people see the power being amassed everyone will want it and the dominos will fall from there. You are kidding yourself if you think JD wants this guy to stick around. Honestly, I'm sure Elon thinks 47 is in his way as well. This president has become a lame duck already.. He's got 47 months and counting.
Comment by inwavesweroll at 01/02/2025 at 04:41 UTC*
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I think the problem with implementing P2025 is that it assumes that Trump has the country’s best interest at heart.
The whole project depends on a “brave conservative President” nuking the administrative state to force Congress to retake it’s power. He’ll implement it in so far as it tanks government capacity & oversight to allow him free reign to do whatever he wants, but beyond that the process will be (already is?) coopted by corporate elites, oligarchs, & foreign actors that P2025 warns against. I think we can mostly agree that Trump won’t get in the way of these entities as long as he already won “the game”, that is, he’s King Trump according to SCOTUS so he’ll never face consequences for anything he does; any kind of quidproquo, scamming, abuse of power, etc.
I don’t see Congress retaking responsibility, nor the States properly implementing their own comprehensive administration. The whole thing is gonna turn into a shitshow of finger-pointing and avoidance of responsibility, all the while America alienates its allies and drowns in more social & economic strife.
You know how socialists say that “socialism was never properly implemented” and that the founders would roll over in their grave if they saw how it was bastardized in practice?
That’s how this whole thing will be remembered in the end.
Edit: I’m still reading the p25 manifesto, so I’m only commenting on what I understand so far.
Comment by King_Kai28 at 01/02/2025 at 18:37 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Standing up to it by revolting is probably going to be the biggest weakness of this project. Trump took away the original Air Traffic Control crew and replaced them with his own people, causing a military helicopter to crash into a passenger plane. He also is removing laws that protect people against discrimination, and already made abortion a state right rather than a federal one. Ontop of banning trans people from the military, and trying to get rid of gay marriage, this man is the very definition of anti-American. We need to stand up, we need to protest, and we need to unite. It’s only going to get worse.
Comment by mjordan102 at 01/02/2025 at 15:38 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Weakness = smarter lawyers at the ACLU and smarter state AG's who will tie up these ramroded EO that are getting signed and pushed thru. FOTUS isn't even reading them because we know he can't read, he only understands pictures
Comment by cosmicjunkbot at 01/02/2025 at 03:22 UTC
6 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Hamberders and ketamine may do the trick of removing a couple of problematic individuals.
Comment by echoshadow5 at 01/02/2025 at 04:05 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I would say they are afraid of non white people having bigger guns than they do.
Comment by hard-workingamerican at 01/02/2025 at 15:32 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Project 2025 does away with weekly overtime for hourly workers and moves it to monthly; they can work you 320 hours in 3 weeks (107 hrs per week) then send you home on the 4th week without paying OT so enjoy that you white trash idiots.
Comment by PandaPal3000 at 01/02/2025 at 11:34 UTC*
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
But he said he wasn't going to do project 25, in fact he said he had no idea what it was......
Comment by ArcanePariah at 01/02/2025 at 22:29 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The biggest weakness, by far, is that it paves the way to a complete dictatorship and APPROVAL of it. At this point, I'd be fine with using it as precedent to completely aboragate any agreements Trump signs, have Trump and his family executed, and order the mass arrest of Republicans nationwide, under the threat that if they don't surrender, their states funding will be BLOCKED (see current Elon Musk oligarchy running the payments system). Also start a pogrom where if you register as a Republican anywhere, your federal aid is withheld, no matter what. And if Congress objects, just ignore them, same with the courts, and if they do anything, just have them arrested.
Once the Republican registration is ended, outlaw the entire party as traitors and declare the end of the Reich, and then maybe we will return power to lawful hands.
Comment by slayer_of_idiots at 02/02/2025 at 02:24 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Its weakness is that it’s effectively only a 2 year plan designed specifically for a single term president (like trumps current term), and it requires having a lot of vetted appointees that can be appointed at an instants notice. It’s not generally applicable to another GOP president.
Comment by AntoineDubinsky at 02/02/2025 at 04:34 UTC
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Trump is. It’s not his project and he doesn’t care about it. He’s not gonna play it slow or smart, or try to be chill and appease people while it gets implemented. He’s gonna be as chaotic and unpopular as Trump 1.0, and he’s gonna be that way while implementing an insanely unpopular agenda.
There’s going to be a lot of backlash. The challenge is organizing it.