Project 2025 is less popular than socialism: poll
The guide for Donald Trump's second administration published by The Heritage Foundation has garnered so much negative attention and backlash that it is now less popular than socialism.
The Washington Post's Aaron Blake cited interesting data points in an NBC News poll published on Sunday. The pro-Trump policy plan consists of a lengthy list of policy proposals and personnel rules for a new government under Trump's leadership, including purging the executive branch of career civil servants and replacing them with right-wing loyalists.
The authors of the proposal are largely made up of former Trump officials, and some of the ideas were things that Trump or his allies had floated during his first term.
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The NBC poll revealed just 4 percent had a favorable view of Project 2025. Meanwhile, 57 percent have an a negative view.
Blake compared it to a survey earlier this month from the New York Times/Siena College showed that among those who have heard of the plan, 65 percent disliked it while only 13 percent supported it. The YouGov poll taken after the debate on Sept. 10 showed 52 percent disliked it to 11 percent in favor.
He called the plan an "albatross" around the neck of Trump and the Republican Party. Trump has desperately tried to disavow it, leading even half of Republicans to oppose it.
Blake found that the best way to understand the context was to compare Project 2025 to socialism. In the same NBC News poll, 18 percent had a positive view of socialism, while only 13 percent viewed Project 2025 favorably.
Blake then compared it to Republicans' 2017 policy of " repealing and replacing Obamacare," formerly known as the Affordable Care Act, that at the time was met with heavy public opposition, polling in the mid-teens.