MSNBC examines Project 2025, part 3

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Thanks to Steve in Manhattan for linking to this entry and MSNBC examines Project 2025, part 1 in Mike’s Blog Round-Up at Crooks & Liars and welcome to all of you who came here from his link! Seeing all of you reading makes me wonder if I should write part 3 today. Stay tuned!

To use two cliches, there is no time like the present and strike while the iron is hot, so I begin with the most recent MSNBC clip mentioning the topic, where Molly Jong-Fast says, 'Project 2025 wish list stuff': Supreme Court decisions show the consequences of elections.

The Supreme Court is front and center after key decisions on January 6th prosecutions and on how federal agencies make rules. Plus — we're still waiting for the justices' decision on Trump's claim of presidential immunity. Sarah Cooper, Tim Miller, Molly Jong-Fast, and Charles Coleman Jr. join Stephanie Ruhle for this week's Nightcap.

Other than Jong-Fast's remarks, this segment about Supreme Court decisions isn't directly about Project 2025, but it is about elections mattering, including the election of Hoover Cleveland in 2016. Back then, I wrote Kunstler said Americans would elect maniacs. Here's to hoping that Americans won't do that again and, more importantly, working to prevent it from happening a second time.

Now for two videos that more directly examine Project 2025. First, 'Project 2025' exposes real Republican intentions on federal abortion ban, Comstock Act.

Michelle Goldberg, columnist for the New York Times, talks with Alicia Menendez about what Donald Trump's allies, architects of "Project 2025" as saying about how a potential future Trump administration will use the Comstock Act to end the mailing of abortion medication in the United States.

I'm recycling what I wrote in Supreme Court unanimously preserves access to Mifepristone to kick off my reaction.

Leah Litman and Mini Timmaraju both mentioned the possible use of the Comstock Act to restrict abortion access again. I find that alarming enough that I think the parts of Comstock Act that are currently unconstitutional need to be repealed, restricting the ability of anti-choice advocates to reanimate them.

I do mean reanimate them, as Alicia Menendez filling in for Alex Wagner called the Comstock Act "the 1873 zombie law." I'm glad Michelle Goldberg talked about Senator Tina Smith's Stop Comstock Act to repeal the entire law, which I support, even if it won't get passed this Congress.* Democrats need to flip the House, protect the majority in the Senate, and re-elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to have a chance next year. It's not just Hoover Cleveland we need to stop; it's the entire authoritarian movement.

Speaking of undead ideas and authoritarian movements, I'm closing with a video I missed in the first two parts, 'The Guardrails are Gone': Troye on Project 2025 and a possible second Trump term.

Olivia Troye, former advisor to Former Vice President Mike Pence, joins Katie Phang to discuss Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's ultra-conservative plan if Donald Trump gets a second term.

Troye's explanation for Project 2025 is explicitly, if not almost exactly, what I wrote in part 1, "the far right realized what a missed opportunity Trump's first term was and now they aren't going to miss their second chance. Yikes!" No wonder she's horrified. We should be, too.

I'm an environmentalist who not only recycles and reuses ideas, I also conserve resources, so I'm saving two videos about Project 2025 and climate change for part 4. Stay tuned after International Asteroid Day, the younger but paradoxically more established version of Apophis Day, to close June and Canada Day to begin July.

*By the way, I'm not one of the Americans who, in Goldberg's words, "lack a catastrophic imagination." I have one. In fact, the entire point of this blog is to share it with the world and help people, especially Americans, prepare for a post-catastrophe world — better yet, help prevent the catastrophe in the first place. Otherwise, as Menendez said, "Here we are."