I watch neither cable news network, that being rather congruous with my having no cable. If I did, I'd still opt for BBC and Deutsche Welle on my free-TV screen. Both offer international news that domestics won't touch. Still, I get nearly all my news in print.
I mention this by way of explaining that had I not read a post by sharp-minded former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade that referenced an MSNBC video, I would have squandered 15 captivating minutes. I also would have sacrificed gratefulness for Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts' eagerness to air but three appalling verdicts incorporated in the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, commonly abridged to Project 2025.
An aside: For those of you who haven't 14:49 to spare at the moment and wish to quickly learn the video's content, sally forth from your limitation and read on. Footage at bottom for those less fettered.
One other: Roberts' project document critically misapplies a word, "a broad coalition of conservative organizations ... [organized by Heritage to] pave the way for an effective conservative administration." The twice-misused adjective conservative is then uttered by MSNBC's anchor.
My fervent yet equally misguided hope is that political rhetoric from centrist to far-left would cease and desist in furthering the behemothian fallacy of the right's neofascism as conservatism.
With that out of the way, the network's panel first addresses the project's proposal for sacking around 50,000 federal civil servants. Roberts cheerfully adds, "The number needs to be more than 50,000 considering that there are more than 2 million federal employees."
Our government, he says, is infested by the "radical left." (Example: Radicalism such as infant, the poor's and elders' healthcare.) And Roberts is most unhappy that 95% of these public servants' political donations go to party Democrats — virtually all of whom are non-radically left, which poses something of a curiosity.
His infestation and percentage are fact-free, as are 100% of pseudoconservatives' universe of demonizations. Before leaving the subject of authentically radical weedings-out, in the panel's discussion merely one of Roberts' targets for institutional extinction is the Department of Education.
Bewildering is that its 4,400 workers are oddly committed to their judicious duties of care, such as setting accountable standards for federal financial aid. They work as well to prohibit discrimination in the educational system, so Roberts is correct in strenuously objecting to this one among throngs of fascistic bugbears.
Moving along with MSNBC's video, Heritage's top dog plays with his and the foundation's perhaps favorite chew toy. You bet they'll accept 2024's result — "If there isn't massive fraud." Its guaranteed unacceptance will come with a Trump loss; "the Democratic Party is very good at fraud," says Roberts.
He elaborates on Mass Foul-Votes Syndrome. "We have an election fraud database that has documented that over the years." Host Symone Sanders-Townsend then quotes from the database. "According to your count there have been 1,513 proven instances of voter fraud" since 1982.
That's no contradiction in Roberts' mind as he skips not one beat. "But they're very hard to document." Democrats, he explains, are also very good at concealing fraud.
Next, Sanders-Townsend notes a figure of 10 million undocumented workers. Unnoteworthy in predictability is that Roberts advocates a "mass deportation system," as does his party's reigning sociopath.
Worthy of stressed re-notation is that his advocacy points to workers present in the U.S., some for decades, not immigrants who recently crossed the border. The social and family consequences of such barbarity are inconceivably immense — quite apart from their crippling effects on American industry. Nevertheless, in American fascism, bugbears will be bugbears.
Worthy of littlest space is the panel's final subject of women's reproductive rights. Let it suffice that Roberts's goal is to change the department name of Health and Human Services to the Department of Life, a renaming misogynists everywhere would agree with.
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