Donald Trump is no longer campaigning. He’s coding a new government — one purge, one spreadsheet, one silent directive at a time.
The center of this shadow blueprint is Project 2025, a sprawling conservative power play coordinated by the Heritage Foundation and dozens of affiliated groups. It isn’t a think tank proposal. It’s a hostile takeover plan — designed to gut federal agencies, erase civil service protections, and install unwavering political loyalty across the executive branch.
→ https://democrats.org/news/project-2025-chief-architect-doubles-down-on-trumps-billionaire-first-budget
→ https://afscme.org/blog/more-white-house-gaslighting-about-project-2025-we-wont-be-fooled
→ https://verfassungsblog.de/trump-nonprofits/
Trump’s allies call it “reform.” But the 900-page manual reads like a soft coup guide. It proposes dismantling the Department of Education, repealing federal diversity mandates, and firing thousands of civil servants who fail ideological tests.
In place of expertise? Obedience.
But the real acceleration came through COVID. As documented in new analyses, the pandemic wasn’t just mismanaged — it was leveraged. Conservative legal minds now argue that Trump’s pandemic response proves the need for even fewer checks on presidential emergency powers.
→ https://fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2025/06/04/trump-must-resist-whos-pandemic-power-grab/
And as if pre-emptively normalizing that power grab, Trump-aligned nonprofits are funneling dark money into 2025 electoral infrastructure: ballot initiatives, voting law manipulation, and mass disinformation about “deep state” overreach. These aren’t isolated moves. They’re synchronised.
The pattern is textbook:
- First, seed fear (pandemic panic, bureaucratic sabotage).
- Then, undermine institutions (civil service, courts, media).
- Finally, offer the savior — Trump himself — with Project 2025 as gospel.
To critics, this is not policy. It’s pre-emptive autocracy — the admin state replaced with a loyalty state. A government not of laws, but of command. One where the future pandemic czar may be a podcast host. Where the budget is written in slogans. Where civil servants swear fealty to ideology, not law.
This is Trumpism 2.0 — less chaos, more calculus. And it’s coming not with tanks, but templates.