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Maybe it is because you are a lawyer, but you are really getting hung up on the idea that Project 2025 can only be hung around Trump's neck if he was directly involved in the writing of the document. I think your block is making you miss so really obvious stuff. This isn't a court of law. Trump's personal signature doesn't have to be on the document to use it against him.
Two things. First, it sure makes it easier to hang something around a candidate's neck when it's true that they were involved with it. The foolhardiness of wasting time with Project 2025 isn't because it's not possible, with a lot of hard work and resources, to hang it around Trump's neck. It's because most of the worst parts of Project 2025 are things that Trump is on video speaking directly to camera as part of his own campaign manifesto. Why are you wasting time trying to hang the Project 2025 version of these things around his neck when he's just out there saying it as part of Agenda 47?
Second, as I've mentioned several times, it doesn't fit with his brand. Trump's not a think-tank guy. He's not a 1000-page manifesto guy. You can hang stuff around a candidate's neck if it fits well with what voters tend to think of that candidate to begin with. It doesn't work well if you're trying to go against their preconceptions. Trump's the guy who destroyed all the institutional guardrails and purged "real" conservatives in favor of his own authoritarian "Me and Me Alone" approach to politics....but the message is also that he's working with an organ of the Establishment Republicans so that that faction can gain control of all the real decisions in his Administration?
