Pirate's Cove

This comes from fevered mind of far left Zack Beauchamp at far left Vox

The radical Democratic plan to change the government for good

Donald Trump started his second term in office with a plan: Project 2025.

The document — a detailed policy blueprint put together by the right-wing Heritage Foundation — outlined not just a hardline policy agenda, but a novel theory of how to wield power to get it done. Its chapters showed how a conservative president could aggressively use executive authority to strengthen the parts of the government he liked, like immigration enforcement, and smash the parts he didn’t, like foreign aid and the civil service.

Project 2025 and Trump wanted to reduce the size of the federal government, reduce taxes for normal Americans and small businesses, to increase energy independence, get manufacturing in the US, get the Government off the backs of the citizens, reduce its power. What about the Democrats?

The most prominent Democratic response to Project 2025 — an effort from a leading think tank, officially called “Project 2029” — seems undersized. A grab-bag series of conventional policy proposals, addressing issues like kids’ online safety and “the annoyance economy,” it does not even seek to grapple with the fundamental problem of a broken government.

But after months of reporting, I’ve learned that there is a quieter effort underway to build a true equivalent to Project 2025: a set of ideas for remaking the government just as sharply as Trump and Vought did — and perhaps more permanently.

The real Project 2029, as I’ve taken to calling it, isn’t yet a public document. But its broad agenda has become a point of consensus across the Democratic Party’s major factions. And importantly, its core ideas have real buy-in among both congressional Democrats and the top 2028 presidential hopefuls.

Weird that Democrats do not want to tell Americans what it is, but, Zack has a few notions. The “plan” yammers about turning an authoritarian government into a pro-democracy one, but, this seems to involve a lot increasing government (like we’ve seen in California)

• A new, vastly simpler and politically protected set of rules for hiring and promotion in the civil service;
• Creating entire agencies and Cabinet positions dedicated to battling corruption and inefficiency;
• Overhauling federal privacy laws to facilitate legitimate information-sharing while constraining DOGE-style data theft;
• Reviving a never-passed bill that would cap the president’s ability to declare emergencies at a 30-day duration;
• Eliminating barriers that block policies at the front end, like the Paperwork Reduction Act, while creating new judicial remedies for federal abuses — like permitting citizens to personally sue government officials who violate their rights;
• A rewrite of the 1946 law that governs the basic rules about how the executive implements policy;
• Funding community-based organizations that can both assist in effective policy implementation and organize against federal overreach;
• Rewriting the basic structures of US government by blowing up the filibuster; Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico statehood; and overhauling the Supreme Court — though these remain far more contentious than the others.

Basically, what they are pushing is a federal government that cannot be stopped, and is, at best, the plan of the DSA light. What they want is a government where Democrats control it, it’s almost impossible to get them out of office, that they can jam through any legislation they want, and the Supreme Court will back anything they do.

This is a very long piece, which you often get at Vox, with a lot of flowery language meant to make the whole thing palitable, but

But perhaps the single best publicly available guide to Project 2029 thinking is a recent series of policy papers published on the website Just Security called the “Reinvention Blueprints,” edited jointly by Rahman and Sam Berger (another Biden OIRA vet, who also works with Hertel-Fernandez at EDI).

That is really all about Los Federales gaining more and more power and it being harder and harder for We The People to stop them.