The right-wing agenda gets less popular the more voters learn about it, a new poll shows.
New polling out on Tuesday suggests that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s best hope for Project 2025, the far-right policy agenda that at least 140 of his former administration officials helped craft, was that most Americans would remain unfamiliar with it.
Over the past month, though, a growing number of voters have learned more about the 900-page plan spearheaded by the right-wing Heritage Foundation—and public opinion of the agenda has plummeted as it’s become more widely known.
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Just 11% of people polled viewed the agenda favorably, while 43% had unfavorable views—a 24-point increase since June.
As is ever the case with conservative policies. As long as people know about them they don’t like them. That’s why they focus so hard so incredibly hard, and so incredibly successfully, on catchphrases and messaging. Because most people will settle for just a simple catch phrase, or a 10-word answer, and not look closer.
If you have conservative “old fashioned” friends and family members who are OK with the toxic sludge of regressive cultural stuff in Project 2025: scare them with the truth that they want to also cut social security and medicare. Two very popular programs with old people. Old people vote in large numbers. Old people remember paying into the social security and medicare systems for their entire career. They won’t like it when the leopards eat their faces.
My favorite answer from conservatives is that “this is just a think-tank; it’s not really gonna happen.”
Despite the Christian nationalists explicitly saying this is what they want and having achieved a huge victory for the patriarchy by taking away the right to abortion.
Fucking shameless.
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And veteran’s benefits. Lots of elderly veterans out there.
I doubt social security would matter. My parents have been talking about it for 30 years now that they will never see it and how much of a waste it is. The defense would be, I have been hearing that all my life and it hasn’t happened yet.
The Republican base is fully supportive of everything in Trump’s Project 2025 so Republican legislators will absolutely push to see it all come to fruition.
Which is why I find it terrifying that people say trump has no policy.
If they said “trump has no policy solution to problems the masses want to see solved” they’d be absolutely right. But I never see it worded that way. In fact, previous to project 2025 almost no one seemed to think there was any coherent direction to his actions. And yeah I get it, he failed on things like the wall. But he also did a lot of anti-immigrant, anti-women, and anti-democratic things which should never be forgotten.
I’m so confused. But I’m also relieved. I can’t believe Trump fell into his own trap he was making his voters scared of “the green new deal” now he’s made his own boogeyman
The Right doesn’t care if most people like it. It’s not for most people - fascism never is.
They care about taking power and enacting their plans. Public opinion’s got nothing to do with it
They care if it keeps their guy from getting elected, though
Their guy getting elected depends on the electoral college, which only loosely represents the popular vote. They don’t need MOST people to like their plans. They need most people in certain districts in certain states.
