askchapo

Trump in 2020 would have been the harm reduction candidate through his incompetence and a democratic majority in the house/senate. We'd have the exact same COVID denialism, lack of economic relief, wars, inaction toward LGBT and reproductive rights, funding of the police and military, and border policy. The only difference would be that liberals would have to put their names next to opposing those things. Even if it's only rhetorical, the left would slip in like it did in 2018. Instead Blue MAGA gets to hoot and holler at the worst of their politicians and we are tied to them by the voters.

Democrats would be entering 2024 in a much stronger position with a much stronger candidate. 2022 and 2024 would both have more radicals, there'd be more opposition to Israel and less support for Ukraine, Ukraine would have probably ended much sooner with the same result and hundreds of thousands of lives saved. Liberals would still believe COVID exists and BLM could have probably maintained momentum as the economy continued to get worse. Locally the democrats were instead allowed to take comfort in voting blue no matter who working as a result of being the opposition party. They voted blue and checked out entirely leaving us with functionally right-wing politicians who rode the 2018 progressive wave.

direct quote from the official text of project 2025 (emphasis mine):

Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.

You can call it vapid virtue signaling if you want, but the fact of the matter is that they are gunning for unitary executive power, and every single person who holds that unitary executive power will believe this and rule accordingly.