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The Way Forward

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usaf-vet

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Fri May 23, 2025, 10:37 AM May 23

Have you ever wondered....How Closely Have the First 100 Days of Trump's 2025 Presidency Aligned with Project 2025? [View all]

Short answer: Very closely.
What we’re seeing is not improvisation. It’s a coordinated execution of a pre-written blueprint.

Project 2025, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation and over 70 conservative groups, laid out a detailed transition plan to:
- Dismantle the administrative state
- Reassert presidential control over the executive branch
- Purge civil servants
- Militarize federal responses to dissent
- Weaken LGBTQ+ rights, environmental protections, and democratic safeguards


Key First 100-Day Actions That Match the Plan
-Replace career civil servants with loyalists

“Schedule F” reactivated; mass terminations and loyalty vetting underway
- Re-centralize executive power

Dozens of agency heads now report directly to a Trump-appointed oversight layer
- Use DOJ as a weapon

Ongoing prosecutions of political enemies; shielding of allies
- Roll back LGBTQ+ military rights

Transgender military ban reinstated; discharge proceedings accelerated
- Control education content

Federal funding threats for states using CRT, LGBTQ+ content, or rejecting “patriot curriculum”
- Clamp down on media and dissent

DOJ surveillance of journalists; FCC “reviews” of media licenses announced
- Favor fossil fuels over climate science

EPA gutted, clean energy funds frozen, and “climate hoax” language normalized in briefings


What’s Likely Next? Red Flag Forecast
Next 30 Days: Consolidation and Control
- DOJ reshuffling to insert loyal prosecutors and judges
- Executive Orders redefining “domestic extremism”
- IRS or DHS actions targeting liberal nonprofits
- Expanded military discharge of LGBTQ+ service members


Next 60 Days: Legal Infrastructure and Pretext Building
- Redefining “citizenship” tied to ending birthright citizenship
- Homeland Security retooling to include ideological enforcement units
- Rollout of a Federal school “compliance” board
- Restrictions on vote-by-mail under “election integrity” branding


Next 90 Days: Structural Authoritarian Moves
- Emergency declarations bypassing Congress
- Use of the National Guard in Democratic strongholds
- AI-powered surveillance initiatives fast-tracked
- Trial balloons to means-test Social Security/Medicare
- DOJ begins blocking lawsuits from blue states


Do They Flip a Coin?
No. They flip the country, not a coin.

This is not governance—it’s a consolidation of power, using:
- A roadmap (Project 2025)
- Enforcers, not administrators
- Chaos as camouflage


*JH*
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