"Project 2025 started a half-century ago. A Trump win could solidify it forever"

 David Sirota skriver i The Guardian om "Project 2025.
Utgangspunktet er 1971 da skrev Lewis Powell et memo for "The Us Chanber of Commerce, som beskrev hvordan man detaljert og konkret kunneta styring med den politiske utviklingen i USA:

"Project 2025 started a half-century ago. A Trump win could solidify it forever"

Utdrag:

"This connection to the Heritage Foundation isn’t incidental. It tells us that conservatives see a Trump presidency as the final stage of their grand half-century scheme to destroy the legacy of the New Deal and the Great Society – a scheme first outlined a half-century ago.

Heritage was originally launched in the early 1970s with seed funding from the beer magnate Joseph Coors. He told a historian that his political activism at the time was specifically “stirred” by a 1971 memo authored by the soon-to-be supreme court justice Lewis Powell. That memo written for the US Chamber of Commerce implored corporations and oligarchs to be “far more aggressive” in influencing the political system, which he feared was becoming far too responsive to popular demands for the regulation of business.

“It is essential that spokesmen for the enterprise system – at all levels and at every opportunity – be far more aggressive than in the past,” wrote Powell, who would soon after author a landmark supreme court ruling giving corporations new rights to spend money influencing elections. “There should be not the slightest hesitation to press vigorously in all political arenas for support of the enterprise system. Nor should there be reluctance to penalize politically those who oppose it.”

Trump sier han ikke kjenner til Project 2025.
Hans visepresidentkantidat derimot:
“The Heritage Foundation isn’t some random outpost on Capitol Hill,” wrote the Republican vice-presidential nominee, JD Vance. “It is and has been the most influential engine of ideas for Republicans from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump.”

 

Skudeneshavn 30. august 2024

Jan Marton Jensen

 

Kilde:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.

29. august 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/29/trump-project-2025-history