* The EOs promote Project 2025's goals of turning our democracy into an autocracy of white, Christian males.

* As Curtis Yarvin, whose theories inspire both Project 2025 and the Broligarchy, explains,the goal is a government whose power and actions are beyond the reach of most citizens.

What Can Be Done?

In 2017 a Resistance quickly assembled to demonstrate publicly against Trump. Its premise was that these acts of resistance would carry us to 2020 and electoral victory. Well, look where that's got us. Trump is president again. Republicans control both Houses of Congress and the some of the Supreme Court. And, as one DNC official put it, "elected officials [are] talking like these are normal times when actually the house is burning down around everyone." And a quick tour of mainstream media sites shows the same.

There are reasons to be hopeful.

• While many activists concluded from Trump's win that our efforts failed, there's good evidence that they worked. In 2024 the Harris Walz campaign targeted swing states. Among some of them (NC, WI, and GA), according to data from Jay Kuo, the campaign actually performed better than Biden in 2020 Several others were close. Focused effort works.

• Trump's winning margin was razor thin. His favorability ratings have always been low and are starting to slip further.

•Many of the actions we find horrifying aren't playing well on the national stage. Already there's a backlash to the prominent role of billionaires in a "populist" MAGA government. Even Republican legislators are alarmed by the sudden cut off of federal funds to their constituents. rattling the businesses that depend on their labor (construction, especially now in areas hit hard by storms and fires, needs workers; and agriculture (growing, harvesting, processing) can't produce our food without cheap labor. And quiet efforts to slash government air travel safety programs are making the front pages due to horrific airline accidents.