Editor's Notes: Reconstruction or Project 2029?
Today, our friends at The Bulwark published a preview of the Center for American Progress's Project 2029. You may remember this as the one that had Larry Summers running its economic policy component before his emails with Jeffrey Epstein were publicized.
When it comes to our own project, The Reconstruction Papers, we make no claim on originality for the idea. Everyone has watched as The Heritage Foundation planned, right out in public view, a hostile takeover of our country by the next Republican president. The idea of a Democratic Project 2025 was an obvious one from day one of Trump's second term at the latest. Indeed, even casting it in terms of Reconstruction specifically has been something many others have converged on independently, alongside us.
The Bulwark's preview comes the day that we began final editing on the last essay of The Reconstruction Papers, a plan for renewed racial integration policies written by Victor Ray. Once that is complete, our designer will be able to finish up the PDF to prepare it to send to the printer, and we will set up a pre-orders portal.
We are, in short, on the verge of putting this in people's hands, and indeed will be providing digital copies much sooner than that. We have given this project quite a lot of thought and put a lot of work into it. So it is worth asking: given what we have seen so far from Project 2029, will the efforts be redundant? Will they be complementary? What distinguishes what we're doing from what they appear to be doing?
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