US Republican Party ‘Strengthening Presidential Rule’ Democratic Party ‘Live Without Fear’ Policy Showdown
The Democratic Party announced ‘Project FREEDOM’ on the 25th to counter the hard-line conservative strategy of the US Republican Party’s ‘Project 2025’.
ABC said on the day, “The Democratic Party leaders’ group said about Project Freedom, ‘Freedom to Live’ is based on the idea that the black community should be able to ‘live freely without fear’,” and “Project 2025 was written by about 20 members of the Donald Trump administration and 20 members of its allies, and was hosted by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and is supported by more than 100 additional organizations.” The plan, first reported by ABC News, is designed to engage Black voters in four key battleground states across the country, and aims to mobilize voters of color through town halls, community events, digital campaigns and phone banks in the Tri-State area of Michigan, North Carolina, Las Vegas and Pennsylvania.
Project Freedom is “based on four pillars: freedom to live, freedom to learn, freedom to vote and freedom to thrive,” organizers told ABC, adding that “leaders say Project Freedom aims to provide voters with a substantive policy agenda for the Democratic Party ahead of the November election, which is a clear and concise contrast to Project 2025.”
The Republican Party’s Project 2025 strategy, previously revealed by ABC, outlines the dismantling of federal agencies supported by former President Trump, including the Department of Education and the Department of Homeland Security, privatizing other agencies including the Transportation Security Agency and expanding presidential control over the executive branch. ABC reported that the first section of Project 2025 is titled “Taking the Reins of Government,” and that “the job of the modern conservative president is to limit, control, and direct the executive branch on behalf of the American people.”
ABC reported that the Democratic Party’s “Project Freedom” is “urging the organizers to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which has been stalled by Republicans in the U.S. Senate.”
“The way to really engage voters and get them to the polls is to make sure they know that we’re not just going to vote to celebrate,” Tamika Mallory, founder of Until Freedom, an intersectional social justice group, told ABC. “We’re going to the polls with our demands full of people, and we’re going to make an identity politics message to people who are suffering from income inequality, people who are suffering from problems in the education system, people who just watched the video of Sonya Massey getting shot in the face by a Springfield, Illinois police officer.” Project 2025, a 922-page document outlining the policies of a strategy group to lead a Conservative administration, calls on the next president to “cut federal spending on research and investment in renewable energy” and “stop the war on oil and natural gas” in relation to “climate change.” ABC reported that “the project aims to repeal and eliminate the Climate Change Prevention Initiative, and replace carbon reduction targets with expanded use of fossil fuel energy production and ‘energy security,’ which is consistent with Trump’s official Agenda 47,” adding that “Trump stated in Agenda 47 that he plans to make the United States the ‘world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas. ’” ABC said the Democrats’ Freedom to Thrive would “expand the Child Tax Credit, raise the federal minimum wage to keep up with inflation, and pilot programs for a Universal Basic Income for low-income communities across the country,” while Freedom to Learn would focus on education, including student debt forgiveness and protecting Black American history in public schools, and Freedom to Vote would focus on strengthening voting rights, pushing for passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and reconstituting the U.S. Supreme Court.” Michael Blake, CEO of the Kairos Democracy Project, a youth and voters of color advocacy group that founded Project Freedom, told ABCd in a statement that “our democracy is under siege by humans and political machines who place themselves above anyone who senses ‘otherness.’” <Refer to Heritage Foundation, ‘Political Violence Left-Wing Axis’ Republican Revolution ‘Right-Wing Opposition Civil Servants Expulsion’, July 19, 2024>