Some of the most fascinating passages in the book Project 2025, are the references to being “woke” and the “culture wars.”
The authors clearly find the idea of America as “a melting pot,” extremely distasteful.
To them, it’s obvious that white male Northern European Americans should be in charge of everything.
One goal of Project 2025 is to erase many aspects of the modern world—trans people, books on race and climate change, consideration of sexual orientation—from society.
It’s as if Trump, and his MAGA cohorts, believe that they can make all of these ideas go away.
The 919-page book proposes some bizarre actions.
It wants NPR be stripped of Government funding.
It wants all discussions of identities (sexual and racial) to be deleted from laws, and government web sites.*
Project 2025 wants “psychologically destructive” books—ie, books that discuss “woke” subjects—to be removed from libraries and schools.
Furthermore, Project 2025 suggests that librarians, professors, and doctors, be reclassified as registered sex offenders, for trying to help trans children.
Less than 1% of NPR’s funding comes from the Federal Government.
While the percentage is small, $445-$500 million is directed by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (another entity) to public TV and radio stations, under the 1967 Public Broadcasting Act.
Since Trump is in charge of the CPB board, he could mold the CPB into a right-wing group, just as he made himself head of the Kennedy Center.
As I read Project 2025, I realized that its’ authors are more than just upset with Leftists and “wokeness.”
It’s as if they constantly hear The Left whispering into their ears that they are wrong and stupid, and they want this whispering to stop!
Kevin Roberts (President of the Heritage Foundation) remarks that “The Left does not believe that all men are created equal. They believe they are superior.”
At the same time that Project 2025 wants the U.S. to discontinue DEI, it also wants the Government to load up on weapon systems, as well as build up Special Operation Forces.
Section Two of the book advocates accelerating the Sentinel system, the U.S. Space Force, and the U.S. Cyber Command.
On 3/21/25, the 47th President announced a new generation of fighter jets, the F-47.
(This one plane will cost as least $20 billion.)
Nativism and fear of immigrants is nothing new in American society.
When going through a pile of inherited books, I came across a 1973 copy of Ralph Stone’s The Irreconcilables.
It’s an analysis on how16 nativist Senators defeated the Treaty of Versailles, and refused to authorize the League of Nations.
Senator Reed (Missouri) fought the agreement because the majority of the countries making it did not “belong to the white race of men.”
Senator Borah (Idaho), feared that Great Britain would dominate the League.
Sherman (Illinois), feared that far too many League members would be Catholics.
The Irreconcilables gradually wore down 80 fellow Senators, and convinced them that a League of Nations would “do more harm than good.”
In 2024, a film called Cabrini was issued as a DVD, and briefly seen in theaters.
It’s about Mother Cabrini, the first U.S. citizen to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church.
However, it’s also about the fight between nativists (who despised Catholic immigrants as vermin), and Mother Cabrini who wanted immigrants to be given a chance at the American dream.
(Mother Cabrini became a U.S citizen in 1909.)
New York city officials tried very hard to ship her back to Italy.
At the beginning of the film (set in 1899) a dying Italian immigrant mother isn’t admitted to a New York hospital, because of her ethnicity.
Later on, one Italian immigrant child dies, and another is injured, when they work at low-paying jobs in a dangerous factory.
In another scene, Mother Cabrini is called a “guinea,” by a WASP businessman, on the streets of Manhattan.
Director Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, was set about one generation before Cabrini.
It’s also about New York nativists who despised Italian and Irish immigrants as “guineas” and “micks.”
It’s no surprise that Vice-President JD Vance completely misunderstood this film!
Vance revealed in a 2021 interview (with podcaster Jack Murphy) that he saw Gangs of New York as the story of criminal immigrant gangs.
Scorsese’s film is actually about criminal nativists persecuting immigrants.
(Read more about 2002’s Gangs of New York in my memorandum “The War on Immigrants.”)
Although immigrants have long been our most industrious citizens, there’s also been a “glass ceiling” in terms of the U.S. Presidency.
Southern European candidates, in particular, have never been selected for any position higher than the Vice Presidency.
This glass ceiling (for male immigrants) has not existed in big business or in earning money.
The first American millionaire—a billionaire if his worth was figured in modern dollars—was French-American Stephen Girard, a shipowner and banker.
Girard lived from 1750 to 1831.
His only child died in infancy.
Therefore, he left the bulk of his wealth to the education and care of orphans.
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)—ranked as the second richest man in American history—was born in Scotland, and arrived in America at the age of 12.
Like Gerard, Carnegie eventually became a philanthropist.
He gave away $350 million dollars during his lifetime, and over 90% of his fortune, after his death.
Immigrants are more likely to be wealth-makers, than native born citizens, in every country in which this subject is studied.
According to an MIT study, American immigrants are 80% more likely to be successful entrepreneurs, than native-born Americans.
According to Fortune magazine, nearly 44% of the 2022 Fortune 500 list were founded by 1st or 2nd generation immigrants.
Because the colonies were originally settled by the Virginia Company of London, and the Plymouth Company (also of London), some people believe that the U.S. was built by Northern European Christian men, and that everyone else should be second-class citizens.
Just because wealthy people in the South lived off the unrecompensed labor of black Americans for five generations, that’s hardly an argument.
*All references to Enola Gay (the bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima) were removed from U.S. government web sites (because the paragraphs and captions used the word “gay”), as part of the initiative to eliminate DEI content.
