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D URING THE LAST United States presidential campaign, an ominous 920-page policy document emerged into the public eye. Known as Project 2025 and released by the Heritage Foundation, it laid out a blueprint for a maximalist version of executive power, a sidelining of congressional power, and a radical overhaul of government, the bureaucracy, and American society writ large. Decode the stories behind the headlines with The Walrus newsletter. Sign up for The Walrus newsletter and get trusted Canadian journalism straight in your inbox. It was a playbook for the far right and unreservedly so. It raised such a spectre during the campaign that candidate Donald Trump denied any knowledge of the document. But within his first year back in the Oval Office, Trump had managed to implement much of the Project 2025 agenda in his quest to “Make America Great Again.” We’ve all seen how that has been going for the United States and, frankly, for the rest of the world. The only word that captures it is