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How Trump 2.0 Has Embraced Project 2025

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The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 booth at the National Conservative Conference in Washington D.C., Monday, July 8, 2024. ( (Photo by DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images))

During his campaign for president last year, Donald Trump consistently disavowed Project 2025, the right wing blueprint to remake the U.S. government. But since taking office, he’s been aggressively implementing many tenets of the controversial plan. Scott and Marisa discuss Trump’s embracing of the plan and what it means for democracy with Ben Raderstorf, policy advocate at the nonpartisan organization Protect Democracy, which is dedicated to pushing back against authoritarianism.

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