Project 2025 blueprint for second Trump term envisages replacing thousands of career staff with political loyalists
America’s career diplomats are braced for the threat of a mass purge if Donald Trump wins the November election and for the potential flooding of the state department with loyalty-tested political appointees.
Rather than leading to a seamless change of course in a rightward Trumpist direction, the diplomats’ union and former ambassadors argue, such an attempted takeover would be much more likely to end in legal challenges, gridlock and chaos.
If elected, Trump has threatened to reinstate a policy he unsuccessfully attempted in his first term with the creation of “Schedule F”, a new category of federal employees which would be applied to tens of thousands of civil servants in “policy-related” jobs, robbing them of legal protections and making them liable to be fired at will.
Look I’m not trying to downplay genuinely but every election will be this and has been. From Carter to Regan to Bush and Obama. They’re all really important.
That said, they slammed abortion and it harmed them. They rigged the election for Bush but failed for Trump.
I don’t think they’re on the rise, I think they’re thrashing struggling for air here. Project 2025 is desperation in my eyes.