As a lot as Donald Trump denies it, it is clear that Mission 2025 is a blueprint for what is going to occur if he manages to occupy the White Home a second time. With greater than 140 members of Trump’s previous and present employees concerned in writing the Heritage Basis’s plan and operating mate JD Vance lavishing reward on it, it is a doc custom-written for Trump.
Vance even wrote the foreword for Heritage chief Kevin Roberts’ new ebook. The connections between Trump, Roberts, Vance, and the 900-page handbook for scrapping American democracy and changing it with a Christian nationalist authoritarian authorities run deep.
However that does not imply Mission 2025 is simply about Trump. As a result of it takes greater than the facility of the White Home to tear aside our establishments—no less than initially. To actually get the wrecking balls flying, Mission 2025 would additionally want some quislings in Congress. And few are extra open about their help for the Heritage Basis than Florida Sen. Rick Scott.
Scott is deeply linked with each Mission 2025 and Roberts. It’s not only a matter of Scott praising Roberts (though that has definitely occurred), or of Roberts praising Scott (though … that too).
This has been a long-term collaborative partnership. Scott has labored straight with Roberts and the Heritage Basis to supply a video sequence blaming Democratic insurance policies for the nationwide debt with out mentioning the results of Republican tax insurance policies. Scott’s video sequence additionally blamed inflation on President Joe Biden’s insurance policies whereas ignoring the necessity to hold companies and people solvent in the course of the pandemic or the catastrophe that Trump left behind.
Scott has appeared on Roberts’ podcast to criticize investigations into Trump, and Roberts has praised Scott’s plan for combating “woke extremism.” It’s no marvel why: With its nationwide ban on abortion, plan to exchange public training with a voucher scheme, and naturally “keeping men out of women’s sports” speaking level, Scott’s 12-point agenda (which really consists of over 100 coverage proposals) incorporates numerous the identical concepts as Mission 2025.
In actual fact, Scott has already put the Heritage Basis to work within the battle on democracy. When he was governor of Florida, Scott employed the writer of Mission 2025’s chapter on election reform, lawyer Hans von Spakovsky, to assist conduct a purge of Florida’s voter rolls. Voter suppression has turn out to be important to the GOP’s maintain over Florida.
Two years in the past, Scott and Roberts have been facet by facet to advertise Scott’s “plan for rescuing America.” Collectively they offered a paranoid imaginative and prescient of a drowning nation that would solely be saved by “bold leadership.”
“Consider our situation in America today,” Scott stated. “The militant left now controls the entire federal government, the news media, universities, Hollywood, big tech, and most corporate boardrooms. But they want more. They’re redefining America and silencing their opponents.”
Not solely was Scott surprisingly capable of converse up regardless of this so-called militant left, this was March 2022. Fox Information, Newsmax, and One America Information have been all on the air. Elon Musk was a mere three weeks away from shopping for Twitter, and in Florida, faculties and universities had already been swept away from books and applications on American historical past beneath GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “Stop WOKE act.” None of that stopped Scott from casting Republicans who dominated nearly all of state legislatures as plucky underdogs.
Scott could be again on the Heritage Basis in November for the Heritage Motion Sentinel Summit, the place he once more spoke out towards “radical woke indoctrination” and “the woke demands of the radical left who are destroying our country with debt, indoctrination, and socialism.” Whereas there, he warned about “woke schools” and the “woke military.” And he instructed the gathered conservatives that one of the simplest ways they might combat all this wokeness was by coming collectively to … ship Herschel Walker to the Senate.
That didn’t work out so effectively. But it surely didn’t cease Scott from coming again in 2023 to affix GOP senators together with Josh Hawley, Mike Lee, Tim Scott, and a few man named JD Vance.
Reportedly, the largest concern Trump had when it got here to vetting potential 2024 operating mates was whether or not they would go the place his earlier vp didn’t. As The Washington Publish wrote earlier this month, Vance “passed the central test Trump posed to his last vice-presidential pick, former Indiana governor Mike Pence: If asked, Vance has said that he would have tried to throw the 2020 election to Trump.”
Contemplating his deep affiliation with the Heritage Basis and Roberts, there’s little doubt that Vance could be there each step of the best way to try to implement Mission 2025’s nationalist takeover if he and Trump win the election in November.
And he’ll absolutely have assist from some in Congress—together with Rick Scott.
