Robert Reich on Trump and Project 2025.

Yeah, again - it's the same thing. Not only do I think it's a waste of time, but it's mildly distressing to see Democrats that I otherwise esteem doing this type of shady stuff.

Here, it's in Reich's rhetorical slight of hand about Trump's denial. He starts with Trump's claim that he doesn't know who's behind Project 2025. Reich then (correctly) points out that some of Trump's cabinet officials contributed to Project 2025. But then Reich implies that what Trump is saying is that he doesn't know who these people are (his "cognitive decline" barb), when it's pretty obvious that Trump doesn't know that these specific people were involved in the Project.

Trump is a selfish narcissist - he doesn't know or care what his former Commerce Secretary has been up to since his Administration ended. Trump certainly had no knowledge of, or involvement in, that former Secretary deciding to write an essay for Project 2025. He didn't send that guy to Heritage to write this thing, didn't approve what he wrote, doesn't know what he wrote, and doesn't give a fork what the end product says.

Anyway, the rest of the video is an illustration of how ineffective this sort of stuff is. There some horrible stuff in the more than a thousand pages of Project 2025. But pointing out that Page 455 calls for "abortion surveillance," or that Page 587 has some terrible stuff on overtime rules, is just isn't going to land. Because no one is going to believe that Trump has anything to do - really - with anything that has a Page 455 or a Page 587 in it. Trump isn't a Page 455 or Page 587 guy. Robert Reich is a Page 455 guy, and maybe a lot of his viewers are - but Trump isn't, and the voters won't think he is.