Former Tea Party congressman turned anti-Trump activist Joe Walsh raised the alarm about Project 2025 on CNN Wednesday morning with anchor Sara Sidner.
Project 2025, a policy blueprint crafted by the ultra-right-wing Heritage Foundation with the help of people who previously served in the Trump administration, calls for the total replacement of the federal civil service with an ideological army that will do the GOP's bidding, along with the enshrinement of Christian nationalism in law and the abolition or defunding of a wide range of federal programs, from Social Security and Medicare to military family benefits to public transportation grants.
Trump has lately sought to distance himself from the proposal, but make no mistake, Walsh warned — it's his plan.
"Joe, do you think that this sort of extreme plan ... called Project 2025, it's actually the true blueprint of what Donald Trump wants to do, and he's just trying to soften it ... for the general election?" asked Sidner.
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"Absolutely," said Walsh. "It's a wishlist, but it's a wishlist coming from Donald Trump and the Republican Party."
The Heritage Foundation, Walsh continued, is getting too much credit for its role in all this.
"This is what the Republican Party voters want. Project 2025 is all about ending our democracy and making the president a king and a dictator. If you read all of it, Sara, it's all about strengthening the president, giving the president control, but complete control, over the Justice Department and the FBI, most every aspect of the executive branch, it is utterly un-American.
"But no, this isn't the Heritage Foundation. This is exactly what Donald Trump has promised that he wants."
"He wants to be a dictator, a strongman, a king," he added. "And this is what Republican base voters have said they want."
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