Project 2025 seeks to erode the independence of the Department of Justice (DOJ) by proposing to place it under Presidential control. It also advocates replacing apolitical bureaucrats with political appointees loyal to the individual in charge of the Oval Office and calls for adopting an aggressively hostile border policy to deter immigration.

As the United States heads towards the Presidential elections, Project 2025, an initiative backed by Heritage Foundation, a right-wing American conservative think tank, has caused an uproar. The document has reinforced the threat of growing ideological divide in a deeply polarised American society. Its overall policy agenda is a reminder of the push to normalise an illiberal and extremist policy agenda through a top-down approach when it states:

This book is an invitation for you, the reader – Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith, and Ms. Smith – to come to Washington or support those who can. Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State.1

Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation, during a podcast with Steve Bannon, a former advisor to President Donald Trump stated that “We are in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”2

The narrative initially popularised by the Heritage Foundation was that unless the non-Trumpists (Left-wing, liberals, etc.) concede ground to its polarising narratives, bloodshed (as the last remaining option available to the right-wing) would become inevitable if Democrats do not lose the US elections. Despite President Joe Biden withdrawing his candidature from the upcoming election, Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party have been criticised by hardline conservatives for their immigration policies.

R.J. Hauman, a Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, has recently argued that

Everything Kamala Harris has said and done in her career proves that she bows to the demands of far left, open-border activists. The American people will have a clear choice in November – mass deportation or mass release of illegal aliens and violent criminals into American communities.3

Roberts and Hauman’s assertions are in line with the hardline and extremist narrative promulgated by Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives and Senate and Trumpists (President Trump’s supporters) nationwide who believe in a culture war against the ‘wokeist’ liberal ideology that is allegedly against American national interests and White Christian values.

It has been argued by the consolidated book spanning over 900 pages that members of the Biden administration will use unconstitutional and illicit measures to retain power in the event their party loses the upcoming election. Individuals associated with this project have not modified the following stance in light of President Biden’s announcement to withdraw from the Presidential campaign. Furthermore, some right-wing Republican lawmakers, such as Andy Ogles (a House Representative from Tennessee), have filed impeachment articles against........

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