by Joe Courter
In the July 22 issue of the New Yorker, Jonathan Blitzer profiles the Center for Renewing America, one of about two dozen new right-wing groups that are extremely well-funded and networked by the organization that helped bring them into being, the Heritage Foundation. HF was formerly just a think tank like many others in DC, but has now metastasized into varied organizations geared to implementing the goals of Project 2025.
From the article:
“C.R.A. and its constellation of groups, most of which are nonprofits, raised nearly two hundred million dollars in 2022. The organization has bought up some fifty million dollars’ worth of real estate in and around Washington, including multiple properties on the Hill. A mansion on twenty-two hundred acres in eastern Maryland hosts trainings for congressional staff and conservative activists.”
Project 2025 is not just a book. This is how the implementation will be done. I don’t bring it up to scare or depress, but just to suggest that slowing them down by beating them at the polls in November will at least buy time. This “American Experiment” is under threat by the growth of authoritarian tendencies, but like England and France recently, we can organize and resist. Those who would overturn our government for some Christian Nationalist state have entered the game, and we need to get ready. We are at an “if you can keep it” period in our nation’s history. Forewarned is forearmed.