Men Are Reacting To Project 2025 And What It Means For Their America After The Election

Project 2025 is a conservative agenda created by the Heritage Foundation as a policy proposal for the next Republican president.

And what do you know? We will have another Republican leader in the office in 2025. Last night, former president Donald Trump, was re-elected and will return to the White House as America's 47th president after defeating VP Kamala Harris. Junior Ohio Senator, J.D. Vance, will serve as his vice president.

Although the twice-impeached convicted felon has denied any connection to Project 2025, it's hard to ignore that some of his beliefs align perfectly with the text. Project 2025 contributors include several advisers who previously worked for Trump — including Paul Dans, who was chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management while Trump was president, Russell Vought, a former Trump administrative official, and more.

The 900-page detailed blueprint, also known as a Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, explored a wish list of changes they'd like to see American leaders enforce.

The document is rooted with these four ideals in mind:

1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.

One thing mentioned under this promise: "Deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity ("SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion — 4 —Foreword (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists."

2. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.

One thing mentioned under this promise: "The next conservative President must end the Left’s social experimentation with the military, restore warfighting as its sole mission, and set defeating the threat of the Chinese Communist Party as its highest priority."

3. Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.

One thing mentioned under this promise: "The next conservative President should go beyond merely defending America’s energy interests but go on offense, asserting them around the world. America’s vast reserves of oil and natural gas are not an environmental problem; they are the lifeblood of economic growth. American dominance of the global energy market would be a good thing: for the world, and, more importantly, for 'we the people.'”

4. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely — what our Constitution calls “the Blessings of Liberty.”

One thing mentioned under this promise: "This book, this agenda, the entire Project 2025 is a plan to unite the conservative movement and the American people against elite rule and woke culture warriors."

The plan also promises to "dismantle the Department of Education, remove access to abortion drugs nationwide, deploy the US military as law enforcement, remove protections for LGBTQ+ families, make birth control harder to obtain, disallow the FBI from combatting the spread of misinformation, decentering climate change initiatives from the Department of Agriculture, cutting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and more."

Project 2025 has received a lot of backlash online and just last month HipHollywood spoke to various Black men in the community to gauge their opinions on the agenda.

The men read excerpts from the document and expressed their raw reactions — and then UCLA Professor of Education Dr. Tyrone Howard broke down the proposals.

Here are some of their responses:

1.Found on page 319: "Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated."

"There's no clarity here as to what this really means. Are we eliminating resources; are we eliminating things and who is this being eliminated for? There's already a shortage of resources that young Black kids get. What are we going to do if we don't provide the same education resources for everyone."

2.Found on page 342 and beyond: "By its very design, critical race theory has an 'applied' dimension, as its founders state in their essays that define the theory. Those who subscribe to the theory believe that racism (in this case, treating individuals differently based on race) is appropriate—necessary, even—making the theory more than merely an analytical tool to describe race in public and private life."

"Black history is [not just] Black history, it's the actual history...it's the history. You can't go back in history and not find Black people."

3.Found on page 554: "The next conservative Administration should therefore do everything possible to obtain finality for the 44 prisoners currently on federal death row. It should also pursue the death penalty for applicable crimes—particularly heinous crimes involving violence and sexual abuse of children—until Congress says otherwise through legislation."

"This is the same group that believes the lives of would-be children are considered. Then, to become like judicial hitmen, it's crazy because you can't use the same god for both of them. What it does really is let Black men know that we're not really respected and we're not looked at as human. It's still like an extermination."

4.Found on page 455: "Because liberal states have now become sanctuaries for abortion tourism, HHS should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother’s state of residence, and by what method. It should also ensure that statistics are separated by category: spontaneous miscarriage; treatments that incidentally result in the death of a child (such as chemotherapy); stillbirths; and induced abortion. In addition, CDC should require monitoring and reporting for complications due to abortion and every instance of children being born alive after an abortion."

"I feel like they (women) should have their choice of how they want to treat their bodies and do what they want with their bodies. It shouldn't be up to no government to do that. They've been through a great deal of [suffering]. This is just another thing to add on to that [suffering]. This is not something I want to vote for at all. I wouldn't vote for it."

"This is an important issue that we should all be concerned about because women's rights are being taken away. This takes us to illegal and backroom abortions where women put their lives at risk in ways that we haven't seen in centuries in this country."

5.Found on page 337/338: "The Secretary should phase out all existing IDR plans by making new loans (including consolidation loans) ineligible and should implement a new IDR plan. The new plan should have an income exemption equal to the poverty line and require payments of 10 percent of income above the exemption. If new legislation is possible, there should be no loan forgiveness, but if not, existing law would require forgiving any remaining balance after 25 years."

"It's pretty scary...if there's no forgiveness — some people are not in the position to do that and I don't think a lot of people can recover from the debt that college is putting on people. You're putting kids in a position where it's almost impossible for them to win."

To learn more, you can check out the full HipHollywood's Project 2025 video below: