EPISODE 30: Project 2025 - Inside the 4 Pillars of Trump’s Plan to Seize Government Power

Surviving Trump: With Democracy On Life Support

What is Project 2025, and why are experts calling it a roadmap to authoritarianism? In this episode, Bella Goode unpacks the 4 strategic pillars of Trump’s plan to seize lasting control of the federal government. What’s at stake isn’t just policy, it’s the survival of democracy as we know it. Tune in to learn what they’re planning and why it matters more than ever.

Key Takeaways To Listen For

• Pillar One: How Project 2025 aims to abolish the Department of Education and impose nationwide abortion bans
• Pillar Two: What “Deconstructing the Administrative State” really means and why it targets the EPA and OSHA
• Pillar Three: The threat of Schedule F: replacing career civil servants with handpicked loyalists
• Pillar Four: The rise of the MAGA training pipeline and why it could be a problem
• The devastating impact the Project 2025 would have on democracy, civil rights, public services, and institutional checks and balances

Resources Mentioned In This Episode

• The Heritage Foundation
• The Center for Renewing America

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Host: Bella Goode

Bella is a former Republican turned democracy advocate raised by middle class parents in Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of Syracuse University and the University of Pennsylvania with a masters of business administration from Wharton and a Masters Degree in Positive Psychology.

Career wise, Bella spent 20 years with American Express in New York and 20 years as an entrepreneur. She started and sold a fitness business that grew to 180 locations worldwide.

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