How much of Project 2025 has been implemented? Enough to break us beyond repair. | Opinion
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Project 2025 is a Magic 8 Ball of doom, and having this document on my desktop is a potent and terrifying lure.All of those things you've felt vaguely queasy about for the past two months – laying off broad swathes of the workforces at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Social Security Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency; threats to privatize the Transportation Security Administration and dismantling the Department of Education – they're all in there, and more.At about 920 pages, Project 2025 is hard to read cover to cover, but search for the function of government most important to your life and you'll find all the usual suspects – Planned Parenthood, LGBTQ+ rights, Medicaid and Medicare, Social Security, the Affordable Care Act – lined up for a nip and a tuck, if not excision outright.I could tell you the five weirdest parts of Project 2025, the seven things most likely to happen next or the three items I'm most concerned about ‒ like privatiz...