MAGA’s Project 2025 Deserves a Centrist Project 2029 Response

Project 2025 is one of the most successful political enterprises of recent years. Produced by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that has been at the forefront of every right-wing fashion since its foundation in 1973, the project provided the second Donald Trump administration with a plan and a purpose that was lacking in the first administration. More generally, it ensured that MAGA made the political weather and the opposition merely put up umbrellas. By some estimates, the White House has already implemented more than half the policies outlined in the document.

Trump’s critics have worked themselves into a frenzy in denouncing 2025 as a threat to democracy, an exercise in Christian nationalism, and, inevitably, a fascist blueprint. But, given its success, imitation is surely a more useful tactic than fulmination. Why doesn’t the centrist world produce a Project 2029 that can provide a blueprint for the reconstruction and revitalization of the liberal order when Trump’s term in office expires?