One of the most infamous buzzwords linked with Donald Trump during this heated election season has been something along the lines of  ‘Project 2025.’ 

To many pro-Trump conservatives, Project 2025 is a saving grace for the current state of our country as it aims to implement numerous new policies with a conservative lens against an increasingly “woke” society.

To most who are more liberal-leaning, however, Project 2025 is a danger to America, many insinuating along the lines that it will turn America into a right-wing christian theocracy, stripping away rights and progress made for minorities. 

With responses for this infamous project consisting of polarizing takes, as do most things with our current bi-partisan political landscape, the weeds of this plan and the accompanying discourse seem to outshine the realities of it.

Moreover, the reality is that Project 2025 isn’t going to actually be a reality, nor is it directly linked to Donald Trump in any way, which was confirmed during the most recent presidential debate. 

Project 2025 is a roughly 900 page document created by 53 various right-wing organizations who came together to devise a written plan to take the country’s leadership and policies in a more conservative direction, essentially combating the ‘Great Awokening’ of America.

Amidst the burning discourse over Project 2025, a key detail is left out: Whether Project 2025 is an actual legit plan that can realistically manifest itself into law in this country. 

A campaigning tactic by Harris and the democratic party have leaned into this false narrative, claiming Project 2025 and its listed policies are guaranteed for the future of this nation if Trump is reelected, but reality says otherwise.

There are precisely 7 pages listing the names of contributors to this document, and Donald Trump is not present. 

Many of the aims in this policy wishlist include: curtailing access to abortions, restricting access to abortion pills, ending federal funding for DEI initiatives, stronger militarization of our borders, cutting federal funding for medicare and medicaid, and the list goes on. 

While some of the policy goals above are surely present in the document, and while it does intend to promote conservative ideals onto the entire country in opposition to more liberal advancements aka the ‘woke’ mob, the greatest question of all remains glazed over by mainstream media.

That question is: How legit is Project 2025?

I haven’t seen much coverage by mainstream media, and definitely not by the democratic party, on if Project 2025 is actually a foreseeable future, and if the policies listed will actually become policy at all.

There’s a simple answer to all of this: No.

But this point would crumble the sensationalism surrounding Project 2025, invalidating this politicized narrative that has become a campaign strategy spun by many democrats, including the Harris Administration. 

It’s one thing to shine light on the political division Project 2025 furthers, and to express discomfort with the content, but to promote a sensationalist narrative that suggests Project 2025 is a guaranteed future for America if Trump is reelected is nothing short of a falsehood.

Another layer of uncertainty Project 2025 entails is the sheer number of people involved with its creation, which goes to show that this is nothing more than a long policy wishlist for the future republican candidate. 

Let me be clear, I am not in favor of a majority, if any, of the goals Project 2025 emphasized in their 900 page document, nor am I saying one shouldn’t be uncomfortable over the contents of said document. 

Project 2025 and its egregiously extensive content is not a likely outcome of a Trump re-election. And if these were to become bills, hardly any of them would pass Congress. 

I urge many, especially teens like myself, to not limit their thinking to just the discourse and opposition to Project 2025, but to think bigger, to be skeptical and not just buy into a political sensationalist narrative that fuels division and outcry. 

Ask yourself if these are aims and policies that could actually pass through Congress and become law in this country, or if Project 2025 is just another political campaigning strategy used to fuel different rhetorics by both parties during a heated election season.