The most plainly stated "indicator" is that both the people behind Project 2025 and the Republican party clearly state that:
- The Trump agenda is called Agenda 47.
- It's found on the Trump Campaign website.
- Agenda 47 is the officially adopted platform of the Republican Party.
Project 2025, due to its length and complexity, has been used by Democrats, including the Biden Campaign, as a vehicle to spread disinformation about the Republican Platform and the Project 2025 document. The quotes and outlines used mostly come from a 50 page document titled "People's Guide to Project 2025," published by "Democracy Forward," which is led by former DNC attorney Marc Elias. You know the name.
The idea that project 2025 is going to ban contraception, destroy the environment, and allow slavery to be reimplemented comes from Elias' Guide. None of that is actually in Project 2025.
The Guide claims that Project 2025 will eliminate a concept called "disparate treatment theory," used to fight discrimination, and allow us to go back to life before 1965. Even the citation is wrong. If you go to chapter 3, page 72 of Project 2025, it doesn't mention disparate impact theory at all. That section is about merit pay.
Democrats don't want a direct comparison of policies, so they use this diversionary tactic. They create a lie. They put it out in the media. Then they say that Donald Trump is responsible for it. Nancy Pelosi described this as a "wrap up smear." She was blaming Republicans for using it in the 2016 election season.
You want to talk about politics? It's called the wrap-up smear. You smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest, and then you merchandise it, and then you [the press]
write it, and they'll say "See, it's reported in the press that this, this, and this," so they have that validation that the press reported the smear, and then it's called a wrap-up smear. Now I'm going to merchandise the press' report on the smear that we made. It's a tactic, and it's self-evident.