To the editor: Project 2025 has been recruiting and vetting prospective government employees for an anticipated Republican presidency. Positive, that’s their prerogative. However the concept present federal workers will be scrutinized and assessed, the outcomes revealed in an inventory primarily based on their private concepts and beliefsm after which the workers subsequently reclassified or fired, is a web page straight out of Joseph McCarthy’s playbook. The consensus then was, McCarthy’s practices had been “anti-American.” The Heritage Basis ought to be ashamed of itself for backing this effort.
Moreover, the president of the Heritage Basis was quoted as saying that his basis was proud to help in draining the federal government of “unhealthy actors.” Who decides what a foul actor is?
Many federal workers have opinions and beliefs which can be opposite to present authorities insurance policies, but they do their jobs as they’ve sworn to do, uphold the Structure and help the present president. That’s what makes for a robust democracy: concepts, discussions, compromise and free speech.
If everybody meets a sure commonplace, set by the ruling occasion, I feel there’s a phrase for that: totalitarianism.
Julia Springer, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: Wow. It seems the Home Un-American Actions Committee is again, and Roy Cohn is resurrected. As a part of the Heritage Basis-supported Mission 2025, authorities workers might be investigated utilizing well-respected instruments similar to a “intestine examine” or “intuition” (one activist’s phrases). Will they uncover my sympathy for democracy and loyalty to our Structure? To paraphrase the well-known lawyer Joseph Welch, from virtually precisely 70 years in the past at this time: Have we no sense of decency?
Jon Merritt, Los Angeles
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To the editor: The media want to begin publishing extra articles on what a Trump second time period would appear like. We’ve been so deluged together with his trials, we’re lacking a glance into our attainable future.
Former President Trump has very clearly laid out his plans each in public and in print. The Mission 2025 paperwork, also referred to as the Presidential Transition Mission, lay out plans to reshape the federal authorities and consolidate energy within the government department. By inserting solely loyalists, he’ll create a “sure, Mr. President” authorities to remove any pushback on his insurance policies.
Included on this plan can be a takeover of the Justice Division — to go after anybody who stood in his approach? Think about partisan management too of the FBI, Division of Commerce and Federal Communications Fee; the dismantling of the departments of Homeland Safety, Schooling and environmental safety; and chopping funding for local weather analysis whereas reforming the Nationwide Institutes of Well being alongside conservative strains.
Terry Priesont, Altadena