As we sit and wait with anticipation and hope, like children on Christmas Eve, we keep waiting for everything to fall into place. We wait for the “3D Chess” political strategy to suddenly make sense to those of us on the sidelines. But eventually, we look around and ask: “What are we doing?”
Average Americans just want to live, work, and take care of their families. We want policies that align with those simple goals. In everyday life, you don’t insult your friends, threaten your allies, or arbitrarily start fights with your neighbors. You wouldn’t raise prices on your best customers, not if you needed their business to make ends meet. We were told there is a Grand Plan, “Trust the Plan.” Just one person can save us. From what?
It has been nearly ten years since these ideas took over the internet. As the next elections approach, we need to seriously consider where this course leads.
When we look past the online rhetoric for an actual plan, a written blueprint, the most comprehensive one we find is Project 2025. The plan or Project was written by corporate elites, and specifically benefits industrial billionaires and massive corporations. This playbook is extensive and comprehensive, but there are clear objectives visible beneath the surface. Rather than taking forever to rehash 920 pages of deep policy analysis, we can simply look at who is executing this plan, and who truly benefits from the plan.
The Architects Executing the Plan
The political strategists who drafted the playbook are now running the federal agencies tasked with enforcing it:
- Russell Vought (OMB Director): Executing “Schedule F” to replace career government employees with ideological loyalists.
- Stephen Miller (White House Advisor): Directing the massive immigration rollbacks and executive-power expansions.
- John Ratcliffe (CIA) & Brendan Carr (FCC): Overhauling the intelligence and communication sectors using chapters they personally authored.
- Leonard Leo (Billionaire Financier): Bankrolling the entire coalition to ensure elite financial interests dictate policy.
Though interesting, many of the figures above and leading our government agencies are simply tools for the massive financial interests operating in the background. When we look past the political theater to evaluate the administration’s active agenda, the true benefactors come into sharp view. And it is not “We the People.”
Who Truly Benefits from the Plan
The Heritage Foundation, the central powerhouse of the modern conservative movement, was used to package the Project 2025 agenda on behalf of corporate giants working behind the scenes. The Heritage Foundation states that its core mission is to promote public policies based on free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. To understand what this means for average Americans, we must look past the marketing, read between the lines, and translate those principled sounding goals into reality:
- Free Enterprise: Translated, this means guaranteeing record profits for massive conglomerates by removing worker protections.
- Limited Government: The fine print here reveals slashed consumer safety regulations, clearing the path for corporate monopolies.
- Individual Freedom: Code for expanding corporate immunity to shield big business from liability for toxic products or dangerous working conditions.
- Traditional American Values: Means elevating capitalism and the financial interests of corporate elites over the needs of working families.
- Strong National Defense: This translates directly into securing multi-billion dollar contracts for defense manufacturing corporations.
- Corporate Tax Cuts: The mechanism used to funnel wealth directly upward to corporations and the ultra-rich.
- Oil & Gas Deregulation: Generates exploding revenues for Big Oil giants at the expense of public health.
- Stripping the EPA: Hands industrial polluters total freedom to operate without legal or financial penalties.
Ultimately, these goals and relationships expose a deeply coordinated, symbiotic dynamic. Industrial billionaires supply the vast capital required to fund ideological think tanks. In return, the political architects they finance design the precise legal and personnel blueprints needed to strip away the regulations governing those exact same businesses and industries. This governing strategy isn’t about defending American values; it is entirely about money.
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Graham, D. A. (2025). The Project: How Project 2025 is reshaping America (A. Fliakos, Narr.) [Audiobook]. Random House Audio. https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Project-Audiobook/B0DVDK9FHZ
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