Opinion | What I Learned When I Read 887 Pages of Project 2025 - The New York Times

And for all the book's rhetoric about the need to "dismantle the administrative state," it soon becomes clear that vanquishing the federal bureaucracy is not the document's animating ambition. There may be plenty worth jettisoning from the executive branch, but "Mandate for Leadership" is about capturing the administrative state, not unmaking it. The main conservative promise here is to wield the state as a tool for concentrating power and entrenching ideology… 

Ironically, in this worldview, the people's needs and desires can become circumscribed. In the book's foreword, Kevin D. Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, writes that the "pursuit of happiness" in the Declaration of Independence should be understood as the "pursuit of blessedness," that is, that "an individual must be free to live as his creator ordained — to flourish." The Constitution, he explains, "grants each of us the liberty to do not what we want, but what we ought." The book ties this argument to the philosophical and legal concept of "ordered liberty," in which individual rights are weighed against social stability...

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