David A. Graham

And on day one, we got all of these executive orders that followed almost verbatim from things in Project 2025.

Okay, no, there's really something here.

Okay, sure.

If you look at, for example, gender, family, and rights, we've seen Trump pushing back really hard on anything that looks like wokeness.

We've seen the attack on DEI programs, not only in the federal government, but in private institutions, in universities.

We have seen attacks on transgender rights, attempting to write binary sex into the language of government.

male and female.

— Undermining traditional tools as civil rights enforcement.

So we've seen a lot of those things.

You know, I don't think we've seen the kind of pro-natalist policies that some of Project 2025's authors intended, but that's in the same area.

Looking at immigration, which is obviously a big Trump priority for a long time.

— We are seeing, even in January, the big push in Minneapolis, and we've been seeing things like this basically constantly.

On the economy, we've seen Trump, you know, pursue tariffs as part of Project 2025 suggests.

And work to cut taxes.

Some of the more fantastical ideas like, you know, abolishing the Fed or returning to a gold standard we haven't seen.

Yeah, it seems like Trump has realized he'd rather control the Fed than get rid of it.

You look at environmental regulation, this is a place where I think they've made a lot of progress, encouraging drilling, encouraging oil and gas exploration.

Cutting down on renewables.

Taking away mandates for renewables and really eliminating regulation and research on climate change and environment generally.

And then, you know, the kind of last area I think about is foreign policy defense.