What did Trump mean when he said Christians won’t have to vote anymore? Maybe the far-right Project 25 contains the answers
By Michael O’Looney
“You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians” — Donald Trump
What?
No more choice? Well, that’s unfortunate. I thought that’s what democracy is all about, our constitutional right to choose who we want to represent us.
Perhaps Trump skipped seventh and 11th grades, when students, in accordance with our national curriculum, learn about U.S. history and encounter the idea of checks and balances. Trump and his far-right coalition seem to think that a president can or should rule interminably. Or, as Project 25 proposes, the 22nd Amendment restrictions limiting the U.S. president to no more than two terms should be nullified.
Losing elections doesn’t come easy for the far right. And so it only makes sense that those on the far right would propose an amendment where their candidate would override our system of checks and balances and render meaningless the popular vote, so their boy could remain in office, well, interminably
There goes our right to choose.
The follow-up is that if we no longer need to exercise the right to vote, then Trump, with an entrenched Christianized Republican Congress and Supreme Court in place, would transform our republic into an autocracy in which one person possesses unlimited power. And the people none.
I doubt if that would make America great again. But it certainly would make America much like it was before the Revolutionary War.
Project 25 intends to deconstruct the federal government, deport undocumented migrants. abolish the Department of Education, prosecute liberal judges, nullify Biden’s orders on climate change and ‘Christianize’ every facet of our government.
Although Trump disavows involvement with Project 25, its agenda might as well be his. It advocates exactly what Trump has mindlessly prattled on about for years — a government of the far right, by the far right and for the far right. A government that would deny a voice to those critical of those in power.
Somehow I like Abraham Lincoln’s words much better: A government of the people, by the people and for the people. I think most of us would agree with that old-fashioned sentiment.
Michael O’Looney lives in Talent.
