Donald Trump’s campaign tried and failed to hide the extremism in the Republican National Convention platform, despite its policy recommendations being led by Project 2025 policy chief Russell Vought and anti-abortion extremist Ed Martin, but they failed as the document looks like a blueprint for transforming America into a dystopian nightmare overnight.
The RNC platform calls for mass deportations, a federal task force to investigate non-Christians, banning people from non-Christian nations from entering the country, eliminating the Department of Education, and assumes the 14th Amendment grants Congress the power to further restrict reproductive rights for millions of people.
“The Republican National Committee platform is one of the most extreme party platforms ever in the history of modern presidential elections. Only a party controlled by Donald Trump would call to install Christian Nationalism in the federal government, destroy public education, and allow extremists to enforce abortion bans or assume Congress could take even more rights away through a bastardization of the 14th Amendment,” said American Bridge 21st Century Communications Director of Presidential Campaigns, Brandon Weathersby. “This is one of the most extreme policy documents approved ahead of a major party’s presidential convention – and the reason voters will reject Republicans all the way down the ballot in November.”
The wildest proposals from Trump’s hand-crafted RNC platform:
- Spend millions of dollars on a massive immigrant deportation program that mirrors President Eisenhower’s disastrous and racist “Operation Wetback.”
- Install another racist “travel ban” and ban people from non-Christian countries from entering the United States through “extreme vetting.”
- Starve Social Security and Medicaid by ending taxes that pay into both programs.
- Make permanent, massive tax cuts for the super wealthy — like Trump and rich corporations.
- Enact steep, economy-wrecking tariffs on imported goods that economists say could cost families up to $2,300.
- Eliminate the Department of Education, allow extreme state legislatures to defund public schools, and end tenure for teachers.
- Re-introduce school prayer and establish a federal task force to investigate complaints about non-Christians made by Christian Americans.
- Erect barriers to divorce and discourage non-”traditional” families.
- Revoke visas of foreign visitors who engage in acts of protest.
- Vague promises to “root out wrongdoers and fire corrupt employees,” echoing Trump’s revenge fantasies and rhetoric that he’ll use his power to jail his political rivals.
- An interpretation of the 14th Amendment would grant Congress power to further restrict reproductive rights in Trump’s post-Roe America.
Published: Jul 8, 2024 | Last Modified: Jul 17, 2024