Sky's post yesterday about the Heritage Foundation's blueprint for a conservative dominated government got me to thinking about how much of that has been implemented. Then I saw the news about the reversal of the endangerment finding at the EPA. So I made a general list of Project 2025 so-called accomplishments over the course of the past year.
One of the pillars of the project is to do away with the regulatory state. That reversal yesterday is a significant step in that direction which will have profound, lasting, and damaging consequences for all of us.
Rescinding the EPA's endangerment finding underpins much of its legal regulatory justification to help alleviate and/or reverse climate change and keep our air and water clean. This is, of course, just one aspect of Project 2025 (he knew nothing about it, remember?) that he and his cabinet have enacted over the course of just one year in office.
Read Sky's post about the Heritage Foundation and compare it to what we have all seen in just one year.
- Trump has moved forcefully to claim incredible power per the Unitary Executive theory. He's not governing. He's dictating. - Civil servants have been fired by the tens of thousands in various agencies throughout the federal government per DOGE. - Has swept away immigration law and has forcefully swept up undocumented as well as legal immigrants and even US citizens and deported them without due process. - Has greatly expanded ICE to become a defacto enforcement agency answerable to Trump himself, not the Constitution. - Attacking civil rights by, among other things, eliminating the concept of DEI, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, throughout the federal government.
None of these actions are proving popular with the majority of We the People. The furor, the outrage, the demonstrations are growing and becoming stauncher in its opposition. So, the Trump administration is doing one more thing, rigging the mid-terms. Chief among that effort is the SAVE act that will simply disenfranchise millions of women by instituting almost insurmountable requirements to prove their citizenship in order to register to vote. And there is talk about sending ICE agents to polling stations to intimidate voters who show up and to keep others away.
for almost forever... as they don't like anything that cuts into their profits. What then results is corruption and crises that have required Democrats to come in and reinstate regulations and avert disaster.
While Republicans have tried to paint themselves as the party of moral and fiscal responsibility... quite the opposite is true.
Republicans have always been the party of small and limited government. But to oppose something that protects the environment? Imagine what their constituents are going to say when a brown sludge starts coming out of their faucets. But by then the so-called representative will have had enough, made his/her money, and will have announced their retirement. Pretty cool, huh?
But how is that going to square up when people start to die in droves from lack of food, shelter and healthcare? When there is no FEMA, no schools, and the infrastructure is crumbling? When AI and robots take all the jobs? What will farmers do without subsidies, and when rural hospitals are closed down?
My daughter works for a large healthcare company, and they are are already cutting their staff and closing clinics because they are losing money. Is this really the direction Republicans want to take us?
To answer the question about the direction Republicans want to take
Posted by AayJay on February 15, 2026, 9:43 am, in reply to "True..."
They want limited government. By default, anything not on their list of bona fide government responsibilities needs to be cut.
I found this when I googled "What do Republicans think are government responsibilities?"
Today's 'Republican' party bears little to no resemblance to the party of 'conservatism'... whether fiscal or personal. It has become a party of outlaws, criminals, racists and haters. The last paragraph pretty well sums it up.
"In late 2025, Politico revealed leaked group chats among high-ranking leaders of the "Young Republicans" that included language praising Adolf Hitler and promoting Nazism, encouraging the rape and killing of political opponents, extensive use of antisemitic and racial slurs, and favorable opinions on slavery.[188] The messages drew bipartisan condemnation, and another incident involving the display of an American flag with a swastika in Republican Congressman David Taylor's office a day later spurred significant political commentary about the future of the GOP and condemnation about the prominence of Nazi ideology within the Republican Party.[189][190][191][192] The same month, Politico posted more leaked messages from Republican Office of Special Council nominee Paul Ingrassia where he stated he had "a Nazi streak", that he wanted white men in positions of leadership, used ethnic slurs for Black people and Italians, and proposed making Kwanzaa and all celebrations of Black culture illegal.[19"
Trump Mg GOP ain't conservative. They cheap!
Posted by Pikes Peak 14115 on February 15, 2026, 5:27 pm, in reply to "Bottom line...." ADMIN
and dumb!
Their best original thoughts and thinking is repetition of what they're told. You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony
Project 2025 can be reversed. But it will take time and require paradigm shift
Trump is no conservative. He is about the most wasteful man ever to occupy that chair.
While he brags- this economy is the greatest in US history, He owns six bankruptcies that like his felony conviction, are history that can't be overturned or rewritten, like he and Pjct 2025 did with the 6 January 2021 Insurrection. Those bankruptcies are direct result of wastefulness. 48 giant, gold, peeing angels decorating grounds of the Taj Mahal Casino? That isn't lavish. It's wasteful, and he's doing the same thing to the White House. The demolition, over the top construction, cheap ornamentation everywhere, spending a fortune to memorialize himself is in no way shape or form, conservative.
The fact the insurrectionists are in power now is due to fealty to that dictator, and stupidity of MAGA and too many American adults.
We on the side of resistance aren't done, or gone, and we have a duty to not only remember, but step up reminders when we approach the Midterm election.
We know the Republicans intend to suppress voting as much as possible, because only by rigged rule change do they have a chance to retain control. They must not retain control, and as soon as the balance shifts, the felon must be impeached, tried, convicted, removed from office, indicted, tried, convicted again, and incarcerated.
His religious base must see "God" is not protecting this man, and that he has no connection with God or good.
Some of Nixon's staff went to prison. The only thing that saved Nixon was Ford; the worst mistake Ford made, for the wrong reasons. He said the pardon was to move America past what happened as quickly as possible. Because Nixon was never held accountable is why we have Trump today.
This is the second round of this republican effort to seize total power in America, and it must be the last. You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony
Re: Project 2025 can be reversed. But it will take time and require paradigm shift
Agreed. I saw a post by Heather Cox Richardson where she stated that she's very concerned with what comes later when Trump and MAGA don't control the levers of government any more. So am I. Personally, I don't recognize my own country any more. The depth and width of the social capitulation to the worst among us is staggering inmyhumbleopinion. We may be able to oust the malignant politicians that have wrought so much damage to our body politic, but how do we repair the damage in our society? How can we look at our MAGA supporting neighbors with trust again when a huge portion of us don't share our once common American values and principles? The social damage will take generations to repair.
on February 13, 2026, 6:31 am
