Project 2025: Is Donald Trump following a right-wing playbook – and what’s next?

“I haven’t read it, I don’t want to read it.” That was Donald Trump on the campaign trail denying knowledge of Project 2025, a right-wing plan to tear down swathes of the US government. Written by a prominent conservative thinktank, Project 2025 is a plan to fundamentally reshape America. Its 900 pages set out how a president should expand their power by gutting the federal workforce while abolishing the department of education. For some it represents an anti-woke “wishlist”. For others it is a fundamental threat to American democracy. Image: A copy of Project 2025 held up during the Democratic…