Contact your State Representative about Project 2025

I uploaded this Project 2025 PDF to ChatGPT and asked it to compare Project 2025 with historical authoritarian playbooks.

ChatGPT: Throughout history, authoritarian leaders have used well-planned strategies to dismantle democratic systems and consolidate power. Project 2025, while not a direct military coup, echoes many historical playbooks—particularly in its methodical approach to reshaping government, law, and societal structures. Below is a comparison of Project 2025 with Hitler’s rise to power and other authoritarian strategies.

1. Eroding Democratic Institutions (Similar to The Enabling Act, 1933)

Project 2025’s Goal: Replace nonpartisan civil servants with ideological loyalists, centralizing power under a single executive branch.
Historical Parallel: Hitler’s Enabling Act eliminated parliamentary oversight, allowing him to rule by decree—dismantling Germany’s democracy from within.

🔹 Why It Matters: Democracy dies when checks and balances are eroded from inside the system.

2. Weaponizing Crisis for Power (Similar to The Reichstag Fire Decree, 1933)

Project 2025’s Goal: Expand executive power by claiming the government is “corrupt” and needs to be "restructured."
Historical Parallel: Hitler used the Reichstag fire as a pretext to suspend civil liberties and arrest political opponents.

🔹 Why It Matters: Authoritarian leaders often manufacture or exploit crises to justify seizing more power.

3. Targeting Political Enemies (Similar to Stalin’s Purges, 1930s)

Project 2025’s Goal: Purge government agencies (DOJ, FBI, IRS) of “Deep State” officials and replace them with loyalists.
Historical Parallel: Stalin’s Great Purge eliminated perceived political enemies by firing, imprisoning, or executing them.

🔹 Why It Matters: A government stacked with only loyalists becomes an unquestioned dictatorship.

4. Centralizing Power in One Leader (Similar to The Führer Principle, 1934)

Project 2025’s Goal: Grant the president direct control over executive agencies, bypassing Congress and oversight.
Historical Parallel: Hitler established the Führerprinzip (Leader Principle), where all authority flowed from him alone.

🔹 Why It Matters: When a democracy stops being governed by institutions and laws, and instead by one person’s will, dictatorship is inevitable.

5. Controlling the Narrative & Propaganda (Similar to Joseph Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda, 1933)

Project 2025’s Goal: Suppress dissenting voices in media, academia, and government while promoting a single ideological message.
Historical Parallel: Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda controlled Germany’s press, films, and radio to push Nazi ideology.

🔹 Why It Matters: Controlling information ensures that people only hear the version of reality the ruling power wants them to hear.

6. Restricting Rights & Civil Liberties (Similar to The Nuremberg Laws, 1935)

Project 2025’s Goal: Push religious nationalism, limit LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights, and impose conservative social policies.
Historical Parallel: The Nuremberg Laws removed rights from Jewish citizens, establishing a legal framework for discrimination.

🔹 Why It Matters: Authoritarians redefine rights to fit their ideology, punishing those who don’t conform.

7. Militarization & Expansion of Power (Similar to Generalplan Ost, 1940s)

Project 2025’s Goal: Strengthen the military-industrial complex, remove environmental regulations, and expand fossil fuel dominance.
Historical Parallel: Generalplan Ost aimed to expand German influence and conquer Eastern Europe through war and resource control.

🔹 Why It Matters: Controlling resources and the military ensures permanent authoritarian rule.

Final Thoughts

Project 2025 is not just a policy document—it’s a roadmap to authoritarian rule, mirroring historical strategies used by Hitler, Stalin, and other autocrats. By dismantling checks and balances, consolidating power, and suppressing opposition, it follows the classic authoritarian playbook.

🚨 The Lesson from History: Once democratic institutions are dismantled, they rarely come back without great struggle. If Project 2025 succeeds, America as a democracy may never recover.

The Heritage Foundation & Project 2025
Founded in 1973, the Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank that has shaped Republican policy for decades. Its latest initiative, Project 2025, proposes a sweeping federal overhaul, centralizing executive power, dismantling regulations, and reshaping agencies to favor corporate interests over public welfare.