The right wing counter-revolution has been going on for more than 50 years. The Powell Memo was a 1971 directive from soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, instructing the US Chamber of Commerce how to defeat the “attack on the American free enterprise system”. In other words, how to defeat any leftist or even leftish policies. The Contract with America outlined Newt Gingrich’s plan for republican control of congress. These are just two examples of conservative narratives that periodically receive public attention. They are declarations of how the right wing have been working to counter the gains of the New Deal and the Black liberation movement that resulted in benefits to everyone in the U.S.
The latest iteration of this dynamic is Project 2025 , a project of the Heritage Foundation which states clearly its intention to, “…take back the country from the grip of the radical Left.” Project 2025 is a blueprint for presidential policy should Donald Trump be elected again.
We should be so lucky to be in the grip of the radical left. Even milquetoast social democrats have been consigned to the sidelines of U.S. electoral politics. Joe Biden is president because the Democratic Party bosses feared the possibility of liberal reformer Bernie Sanders winning the nomination in 2020.
Project 2025 is replete with right wing red meat, from banning abortion to ending the Department of Education and also funding for public television. These have been staples of right wing think tank rhetoric since the very same Heritage Foundation played a........