Project 2025: The Heritage Foundation's Plan To Embrace Bigger Government During Trump's Second Term
The best way to promote liberty is by reducing the government power, not by harnessing it on behalf of supposedly conservative or populist nostrums.
After casting my first vote for Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election, I was shell-shocked after Ronald Reagan was article, but it was brimming with hope for the future, filled with realistic policy prescriptions to lift people out of poverty and exuded authenticity and graciousness.
It's such a stark contrast to what we hear today: unhinged attacks on political opponents, whatever Trump says—and no serious person would argue Trump is any kind of policy wonk.
Liberals are freaking out. U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman (D–Calif.), document calls for deploying the feds against tech companies: "TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms are specifically designed to create the digital dependencies that fuel mental illness and anxiety, to fray children's bonds with their parents and siblings. Federal policy cannot allow this industrial-scale child abuse to continue."
There's harnessing it on behalf of "conservative" or populist nostrums—remains the right way to revive the the nation. I'm glad Reagan and Kemp aren't here to see what's happened to their legacies.
This column was first published in The Orange County Register.
