I read the full 900-page Project 2025 manifesto – here’s why it matters

Project 2025 ’s policy guidebook, Mandate for Leadership , describes an America poisoned by “wokeness” and overtaken by lawlessness and chaos.

The guide is just one part of the broader plan Project 2025 and Heritage Foundation had in mind to dismantle the government, recruit thousands of politically aligned people to staff an incoming Trump administration.

Project 2025 is a rightwing wishlist aimed at generational change in how the government operates and the chief executive’s role within it.

The document characterizes so many elements of governance as woke the woke treasury department, woke weather reports that the term is rendered meaningless.

It also describes the country as run by “elites” though not, apparently, the elites that run Washington thinktanks.

The groups involved view their goals as an ongoing existential battle for America .

“In Washington , there are no permanent victories,” wrote Edwin J Feulner , a Heritage co-founder. “While we may achieve tremendous successes under conservative leaders, the Left is always working to chip away at them, which is why we must constantly be prepared for the next fight.