The Democrats had wrought havoc with Project 2025 but all this was ultimately of no avail – cost of living and immigration issues had already captured a large slab of the American people and the issue was wholly owned by the Republican Party.

Trump has got off to a flying start by implementing the plan he initially disavowed: sweeping public service chopping; a global tariff war that’s twisting around like a cut snake; attacks on universities, unions, law firms and anything ‘woke’; and much else, as David A Graham writes in a newsletter published by The Atlantic magazine.

Over recent weeks, we’ve been receiving trickles of information about President Trump’s upcoming war against climate change. As Graham writes, “an end to any policies that acknowledge climate change, and to any federal climate research” are hot to trot. And the Pacific Islands should even now be making strong protests about this, including taking to the streets of America.

“Already, the Defense Department has canceled climate work,” Graham writes. “ NASA has fired its chief scientist, NOAA has laid off hundreds of workers, and the EPA has plans to fire hundreds more, but even these steep cuts are likely only the start.

“Earlier this month, Politico reported on an Office of Management and Budget memo proposing an evisceration of NOAA that closely mirrors Project 2025’s proposals. Unlike some on the right, Project 2025 doesn’t treat climate change as a hoax, but it does view these programs as an impediment to the unfettered exploitation of fossil fuels, especially on federal land, that they want.”

Graham concludes: “The Project 2025 authors set out to turbocharge the Trump administration and reshape the executive branch, but their ambitions are much bigger. Their goal is to transform American society in their image. So far, everything is going according to plan.”

Pacifica, you have been warned.

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