The right-wing agenda gets less popular the more voters learn about it, a new poll shows.

New polling out on Tuesday suggests that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s best hope for Project 2025, the far-right policy agenda that at least 140 of his former administration officials helped craft, was that most Americans would remain unfamiliar with it.

Over the past month, though, a growing number of voters have learned more about the 900-page plan spearheaded by the right-wing Heritage Foundation—and public opinion of the agenda has plummeted as it’s become more widely known.

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Just 11% of people polled viewed the agenda favorably, while 43% had unfavorable views—a 24-point increase since June.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    4 months ago

    If you have conservative “old fashioned” friends and family members who are OK with the toxic sludge of regressive cultural stuff in Project 2025: scare them with the truth that they want to also cut social security and medicare. Two very popular programs with old people. Old people vote in large numbers. Old people remember paying into the social security and medicare systems for their entire career. They won’t like it when the leopards eat their faces.

    • ShepherdPie
      43·
      4 months ago

      The younger crowd should also be concerned that they want to cut overtime pay and change it from 40 hours a week to 160 hours a month before you get time and a half. So many of these guys fund their mall crawling brodozers with their overtime pay.

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      4 months ago

      My favorite answer from conservatives is that “this is just a think-tank; it’s not really gonna happen.”

      Despite the Christian nationalists explicitly saying this is what they want and having achieved a huge victory for the patriarchy by taking away the right to abortion.

      Fucking shameless.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      Unfortunately I have one BIL who will vote for Trump no matter what comes out because he’s just swallowed every single talking point about Democrats from Fox News without the slightest bit of consideration, and the elderly folks who I am thinking of would vote for anyone with R after their name because it’s just what they’ve always done.

      • silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today
        5·
        4 months ago

        Same with all my extended family except maybe 2 people who will use the “both sides” BS to not vote. It’s very depressing.

        • FirstCircle@lemmy.mlEnglish
          14·
          4 months ago

          “both sides” BS to not vote

          I have an acquaintance, a “formerly” rabid-right-wing, anti-union, global-warming-isn’t-real, they-hate-our-freedom, wealthy, fossil-fuel-family Reactionary from the western US who is doing this now. Apparently now with grown daughters and an immigrant son-in-law, Trump, formerly touted to me by this guy as “a really smart guy” and “doing some great things” (at the time, the great thing was withdrawing from the Paris accords), is not quite as palatable as before. But rather than focusing on Trump’s shortcomings, it’s better in the Reactionary’s view to fixate instead on Biden’s genocide support (while ignoring Trump’s and the GOP’s enthusiasm for the practice), assert that “both sides” are just a “uni-party”, and throw up his hands and claim to be not voting this time around, or voting for some hopeless brain-worrmed third party candidate. Anything, anything at all, except for showing one iota of opposition to old Doddering Donald, anything but admit that you, the Reactionary, made disgusting wrong choices in the past and are about to, for all intents and purposes, make them again. The bottom line aim is that taxes remain low, dividends and capital gains remain high, and regulations, whether it be on the Environment or child labor, remain minimal. Voting for Trump directly is preferred to achieve these aims, but both-sides-ing him into office again is fine too if you need the plausible deniability because of pressure from your misguided Communist family members.

    • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
      6·
      4 months ago

      I doubt social security would matter. My parents have been talking about it for 30 years now that they will never see it and how much of a waste it is. The defense would be, I have been hearing that all my life and it hasn’t happened yet.