USA Today reports:
“Really, it’s kind of a white supremacist manifesto,” said Michael Harriot, a writer and historian who wrote an article earlier this month titled: “I read the entire Project 2025. Here are the top 10 ways it would harm Black America.” And a closer look at the named contributors to Project 2025 adds to the concern: A USA TODAY analysis found at least five of them have a history of racist writing or statements, or white supremacist activity.
They include Richard Hanania, who for years wrote racist essays for white supremacist publications under a pseudonym. Failed Virginia GOP Senate candidate Corey Stewart, another named contributor, has long associated with white supremacists and calls himself a protector of America’s Confederate history. One Project 2025 contributor wrote in his PhD dissertation that immigrants have lower IQs than white native citizens, leading to “underclass behavior.”
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Photo: Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts.
When journalist Will Carless investigated the people and organizations who contributed to Project 2025, he found an avowed eugenicist, white nationalists and even a “protector of Confederate history.”https://t.co/USBcdERryY
— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) July 29, 2024