{"id":2290559,"date":"2024-07-08T13:56:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-couldnt-find-a-single-christian-nationalist-policy-in-project-2025\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T14:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T18:03:04","slug":"i-couldnt-find-a-single-christian-nationalist-policy-in-project-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-couldnt-find-a-single-christian-nationalist-policy-in-project-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"I Couldn&#8217;t Find A Single &#8216;Christian Nationalist&#8217; Policy In Project 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-couldnt-find-a-single-christian-nationalist-policy-in-project-2025%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2290559&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Project 2025 is a nearly 1,000-page document\u200d put together by the Heritage Foundation outlining a suggested roadmap for a potential second Trump administration. President Biden has expressed concerns about the document, calling it alarming, while Democrats\u200d are working\u2063 to instill fear about its contents. Despite the \u2064fearmongering, the document mainly consists of long-held \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">conservative policies<\/a> and desires for government, such as an expansion of \u2064presidential\u200b power and cuts to \u200cfederal departments. Critics argue that the policies\u200b outlined in Project 2025 are not as extreme as portrayed and are within the\u2062 president&#8217;s power. The document also touches\u200d on controversial topics such as eliminating the Department of Education, restricting the FBI&#8217;s role in fighting misinformation, and ending the &#8220;war on fossil fuels.&#8221; Despite \u200cconcerns from some, the document \u2063does not explicitly mention Jesus or Christ,\u200b but does emphasize God-given individual rights and highlights social conservative positions on various issues. The mention of &#8220;Christian&#8221; in the mandate focuses on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/persecution-fears-rise-as-biden-backs-away-from-religious-freedom-abroad\/\" title=\"Persecution Fears Rise as Biden Backs Away From Religious Freedom Abroad\">protecting religious freedoms<\/a> and minority groups, such\u2062 as Middle Eastern Christians. Ultimately, Project 2025 presents a mix of conservative policies and values that are \u200dup for debate and interpretation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Project 2025, a suggested roadmap for a second Trump Administration pulled together by the Heritage Foundation, is a nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/static.project2025.org\/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1,000-page document <\/a>written by a bunch of think tankers and right-wing policy experts running the gamut of conservatism.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-project-2025-biden-9d372469033d23e1e3aef5cf0470a2e6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> the document \u201cshould scare every single American.\u201d Democrats, one strategist told the Washington Post, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/2024\/07\/08\/project-2025-trump-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">need to<\/a> \u201cinstill fear in the American people.\u201d Donald Trump and his surrogates are already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/2024\/07\/08\/project-2025-trump-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">distancing<\/a> the candidate from the effort.<\/p>\n<p>So, I decided to read it. Listen, it wasn\u2019t easy. But the chances that Biden, or any other person fearmongering about it, understands what\u2019s in it, is highly doubtful.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, most of the Project 2025 \u201cmandate\u201d is just a compendium of long-held conservative wishes for government. <\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/07\/05\/trump-project-2025-biden\/5c5f0e76-3afd-11ef-93fe-36cbc6f6ab36_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warns<\/a> the effort champions a \u201cdramatic expansion of presidential power.\u201d Yet, nothing in Project 2025 is even on par with Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/02\/bidens-student-loan-relief-is-a-cynical-dangerous-attack-on-the-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unconstitutional<\/a> loan \u201cforgiveness\u201d plan. The alleged presidential abuses the media lays out are well within the president\u2019s power. They\u2019re just policies Democrats happen to dislike.<\/p>\n<p>Project 2025, we are warned, suggests the firing of as many as 50,000 federal workers \u2014 which is well within the purview of the president. It will never happen, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>Project 2025 suggests eliminating the Department of Education and its \u201cwoke-dominated system of public schools.\u201d Conservatives have been promising to get rid of the Department of Education <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-1985-01-29-mn-13948-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">since<\/a> Ronald Reagan first ran for the presidency. It will never happen.<\/p>\n<p>Project 2025 suggests prohibiting the FBI from \u201cfighting misinformation and disinformation.\u201d Great! The state shouldn\u2019t be in the business of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/its-not-governments-job-to-root-out-misinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dictating speech<\/a>. Not only do bureaucrats have no monopoly on truth; they are highly prone to abusing power. This would not have been controversial even a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, curbing the DOJ\u2019s efforts is <em>limiting<\/em> executive power.<\/p>\n<p>Project 2025 also suggests deactivating FBI investigations that are \u201ccontrary to the national interest.\u201d The Department of Justice \u2014 now engaged in lawfare against Democrats\u2019 main political rivals, parents, and pro-life protesters among others \u2014 exists within the executive branch. It is always presumably acting in the national interest.<\/p>\n<p>Project 2025 also proposes ending the \u201cwar on fossil fuels.\u201d This, too, has been a mainstream GOP position since Democrats began openly promising to dismantle our energy economy. If voters don\u2019t like it, they can vote of the party that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/pressreleases\/biden-harris-administration-delivers-historic-milestones-new-actions-clean-energy#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20%E2%80%94%20The%20Biden%2DHarris%20administration,free%20power%20sector%20by%202035.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promises<\/a> \u201ccarbon pollution-free power sector by 2035.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProject 2025 is not a game, it\u2019s white Christian nationalism,\u201d the star of \u201cThe Avengers\u201d and budding Christian theologian Mark Ruffalo <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarkRuffalo\/status\/1807917298780627038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warns<\/a>. \u201cIt is the Sharia Law of the \u2018Christian\u2019 crazy people who aren\u2019t Christian at all but want to control every aspect of your life through their narrow and exclusionary interpretation of Christ\u2019s egalitarian, inclusive, and kindly teachings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Project 2025, you may be surprised to learn, does not feature a single mention of \u201cJesus\u201d or \u201cChrist.\u201d It does champion long-held social conservative positions on religious freedom, abortion, marriage, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>The policy guide features eight mentions of \u201cGod\u201d in the entire document, most of those noting our \u201cGod-given individual rights to live freely.\u201d Though this might be offensive to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/27\/if-this-is-christian-nationalism-sign-me-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Politico writers<\/a> or \u201cNew Right\u201d intellectuals who\u2019ve abandoned \u201cliberalism,\u201d it is one of the foundational ideas of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristian\u201d is mentioned seven times in the Project 2025 mandate. One, a warning about the left\u2019s threats to tax-exemptions on churches and religious schools. Another mention suggests doing more to protect minority \u201cMiddle Eastern Christians\u201d in foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>Another reference reminds us about the COVID-era authoritarians who shut down \u201cchurches on the holiest day of the Christian calendar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Faith is also touched on in a section about attacks on religious freedom that \u201ccompel a Christian website designer to imagine, create, and publish a custom website celebrating same-sex marriage but cannot compel an LGBT person to design a similar website celebrating opposite-sex marriage.\u201d There is nothing extreme about that statement.<\/p>\n<p>Now, obviously there are numerous other nods to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-adds-socially-conservative-riders-to-government-health-funding-bill\/\" title=\"House GOP adds socially conservative riders to government health funding bill\">socially conservative policy<\/a> that comports largely with orthodox Christian positions. Not everyone in the right-center coalition might agree. Especially on abortion; positions that Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jonathanvswan\/status\/1810336845797916880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">does not<\/a> even embrace. Though, some, including \u201cvigorously complying with statutory bans on the federal funding of abortion,\u201d are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/marist-poll-60-percent-of-americans-oppose-taxpayer-funding-of-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">popular<\/a> with Americans.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re free to agree or disagree with the suggestions, but there is nothing weird or unique or new about faith informing politics. Moreover, none of these policies undermine the rights of other citizens.<\/p>\n<p>And I disagree with plenty of the economic and trade ideas found in Project 2025. That\u2019s not what the left is taking issue with, of course. They\u2019re pretending to be offended by decades-old social conservative positions and allegedly authoritarian policies that aren\u2019t actually found anywhere in Project 2025.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a nationally syndicated columnist, a Happy Warrior columnist at National Review, and author of five books\u2014the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/\">Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent<\/a>. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project 2025, a proposed plan for a potential second Trump Administration created by the Heritage Foundation, is a lengthy document outlining conservative policies. President Biden and Democrats are criticizing it, but many of the ideas are not new or extreme. The document includes suggestions to limit government power, protect religious freedom, and support traditional values. While not everyone may agree with all the proposals, they are not as alarming as critics suggest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2290560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump-heritage.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34230,5045,34231,33997,32581],"class_list":["post-2290559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-christian-nationalism","tag-government","tag-policy-analysis","tag-project-2025","tag-separation-of-church-and-state"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump-heritage.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2290560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}