Who Says Reagan Republicans Are Extinct?

Well… as Reagan might have begun, don’t jump to hasty conclusions.

The Heritage Foundation — the same Washington think tank that crafted the 1981 “Mandate for Leadership” that Reagan embraced — has devised a bold new agenda for Trump. Dubbed “Project 2025,” the initial goal is “to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the administrative state.”

Project 2025 commissioned more than 400 scholars nationwide to produce 30 chapters and almost 900 PDF pages analyzing every phase of governance, both domestic and international. Many pundits still credit the Heritage Foundation with supplying Reagan the intellectual firepower that enabled him to debilitate the Soviet Union and discredit a half-century of liberal policies.

Heritage Foundation leaders are political conservatives who often maintain a distance from Trump personally, but who view him as their best bet to drain the swamp, as Trump might say. Project 2025 frightens progressive and uber-liberal Democrats because it invalidates positions near and dear to them.