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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Dec 27, 2025, 07:41 PM 11 hrs ago

Michael Cohen - Halfway To Autocracy

I remember the eye rolls. The smirks. The patronizing head pats from cable news know-it-alls and Trumpworld operatives alike when some of us dared to say, out loud, that Project 2025 wasn’t a think-tank fever dream; it was a roadmap. A 920-page instruction manual for dismantling a democratic republic and replacing it with something narrower, meaner, and far more obedient.

“Fearmongering,” they called it.
“Trump doesn’t even know what it is,” they said.
“He hasn’t read a book in years,” they joked—ironically the only accurate part of that defense.

Donald Trump himself swore he had nothing to do with Project 2025. No knowledge. No involvement. No interest. Which, if you’ve ever worked for Donald Trump, as I unfortunately have, should have been your first clue that the opposite was true.

Fast-forward to today. Roughly half of Project 2025 has already been implemented.

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