Project 2025 isn’t some abstract policy proposal. It’s the blueprint for Donald Trump’s return to power.

Trump has never hidden his contempt for government institutions. He calls them the “deep state.” He sees career civil servants as enemies. He resents laws that slow him down.

Project 2025 gives him a way around all of it. His team has already started vetting thousands of potential appointees—people who will execute orders, not question them.

His allies are preparing to fire tens of thousands of government, clearing the way for a government that doesn’t push back.

This isn’t a new idea. Trump tried to do it in his first term. In 2020, he issued Schedule F, an executive order that would have reclassified tens of thousands of civil service jobs, making them fireable at will.

Schedule F was a way to clear out career professionals and replace them with political loyalists. Biden rescinded the order. Trump is bringing it back.

The logic behind Project 2025 is pretty simple. Laws exist. So do courts. But neither matters much if the president controls the people who enforce them.

The plan calls for the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the intelligence agencies to answer directly to the White House. Prosecutors wouldn’t act independently; they would take orders. Federal agencies wouldn’t regulate corporations; they would follow the president’s agenda. Even the military would be reshaped to remove those seen as insufficiently loyal.

Supporters argue that this will return power to the people. But the people don’t get a say in this process.

This isn’t about elections. It’s about stacking the system so elections don’t matter as much.

If the plan succeeds, corporations win. The ultra-wealthy win. Religious hardliners win. The environment loses. Workers lose. Democracy loses.

But none of this is inevitable. Project 2025 only works if people stop paying attention, if they assume institutions will hold. They won’t, not without resistance.

The way forward isn’t complicated. Vote. Support independent journalism. Challenge misinformation. Pay attention to local elections, not just the presidency.

The people pushing this plan are counting on exhaustion. They’re counting on people looking away.

Don’t.