One of the most discouraging things I've observed in a lifetime of studying American media, is the way corporate news outlets have reacted to the objectively fascist takeover aspect of Project 2025 by focusing on the fact that it's a cluster of "bad ideas" rather than the obvious reality that it's a plan to transform America into a Christian Nationalist dictatorship by force. If big network journalists were doing their jobs properly, I wouldn't have to share a 10 minute undercover sting operation by the Center for Climate Reporting published on YouTube here with you, but they aren't, and so I do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY_chqyaRHo

The context here is that two journalist working for CCR went undercover, posing as donors, to meet Micah Meadowcroft (one of the authors of Project 2025) and Russel Vought (former Trump admin Director of the Office of Budget and Management) to talk to them about Project 2025. Using hidden cameras, they easily got these two fascist muppets to more or less openly admit:

- Project 2025 is a plan to establish an expressly Christian Nationalist dictatorship under Trump.
- they intend to use the US military against anyone who protests the project
- what's available in the public is only the broad outline, they're secretly working on the exact executive orders and policy initiatives necessary to make this fascist shit a reality if Trump is elected; and fast.,
- they're actively keeping this second phase of the project a secret to avoid FOIA requests that would *actually* expose their plans.
- Trump's disavowals of Project 2025 are meaningless electioneering; he's still on board, as is JD Vance and the other Trumworld muppets involved.

The astounding part here is how easily the undercover reporters were able to coax this information out of Meadowcroft and Vought, and the fact that this is being done by a nonprofit investigative journalism organization whose YouTube channel has less than a thousand subscribers tells you all you need to know about how hard (or not) the American media is actually pursuing this story. This is literal fundie fascist dictatorship shit of the kind that could get people tossed in jail if this were a functioning democracy; which sadly, America really isn't - especially post-Citizens United.

I strongly recommend you watch this video, it's worth every moment of the 10 minutes it'll take you to do so.

Also, hat tip to @blogdiva who shared this early today, and without whom I would definitely never have seen this.

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