Demonizing Heritage
8th July 2024
In an odd tactical decision, the Biden-Harris campaign has chosen to demonize the Heritage Foundation and tie that organization to Donald Trump. Heritage has published the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. It is a compendium of recommended conservative policies, intended to be “the conservative movement’s unified effort to be ready for the next conservative Administration to govern at 12:00 noon, January 20, 2025.”
Donald Trump has nothing to do with the Heritage Foundation, and had nothing to do with Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership. Some of the policies recommended by Heritage, such as free trade, reduced tariffs, and nationwide limitations on abortion, are at odds with Trump’s policies. Nevertheless, the Biden campaign finds it worthwhile to demonize Heritage:
First of all, Heritage has produced a document of over 800 pages. Ain’t nobody got time for dat. And it says nothing about immigration, so it is just the same old Crustian bullshit.
Secondly, this sort of thorough transition preparation is something that Democrats are good at and Republicans suck at, which is why we’re in the pickle we’re in right now, and why Trump’s first administration got so little done. One of the things they did get done, of course, was in the area of judicial nominations, including the current kick-ass Supreme Court, and that was the result of efforts by the Federalist Society. So the assistance of such think-tank organizations can be significant … if Trump allows it to be. And that’s why the Democrats are trying so hard to step on it. My rule of thumb is that if Democrats hate something, it’s probably the right thing to do.