From: Progressive International
Subject: PI Briefing | No. 34 | Project 2025
Preview Text: Project 2025 reveals a sprawling vision for the Reactionary International.
One-line explainer: Project 2025 reveals a sprawling vision for the Reactionary International.
Abstract: In the Progressive International's 34th Briefing of 2024, we bring you news from the frontlines of the Reactionary International, and the lodestar known as Project 2025. If you would like to receive our Briefing in your inbox, you can sign up using the form at the bottom of this page.
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Art of the Week: Débora Delmar, Frozen Currencies, 2019
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“It is so important for conservatives from across our hemisphere to come together to defend God, family, and country,” US Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump told the inaugural Mexico City meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “We must stop the spread of socialism, and not allow it to continue to sweep across our land.”
This week, representatives of the Reactionary International traveled from their diverse corners of the continent to deliver on Trump’s directive: from Chile, José Antonio Kast; from Brazil, Eduardo Bolsonaro; from Colombia, María Fernanda Cabal — a star-studded cast of self-proclaimed “freedom fighters.”
But the playbook for CPAC México was written long before its delegates arrived to the conference hall. In recent years, the US-based Heritage Foundation has coordinated a network of reactionary forces — from religious extremists to the National Rifle Association — to develop an 887-page “Mandate for Leadership.”
The document is presented as a policy program for an incoming Republican administration in the United States. But as a key member of the broader Atlas Network — connecting ultra-conservative think tanks and CPAC members across the world — Heritage has offered a vision for the Reactionary International at large.
“It is not enough for conservatives to win elections,” Heritage writes. “If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration. The project will build on four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative administration: a policy agenda, personnel, training, and a 180-day playbook.”
Heritage has a long history at the vanguard of the Reactionary International. For decades, the Foundation has served as a beacon of right conservatism in the US and its violent anti-Communist crusades across the world: from bolstering Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to drumming up support for the Contras in Nicaragua, ”freedom fighters,” Ronald Reagan called them.
Today, these reactionary forces are once again consolidating, across the continent and around the world. Their “Mandate for Leadership” is a testament to the depth and breadth of their vision. The document, colloquially known as Project 2025, is as sprawling as it is revealing: required reading for progressive forces eager to understand our opponents today.
That is why, to mark the launch of the monthly newsletter of our Reactionary International research consortium, we are presenting the “Project 2025 Index.”