Summary
- The 180 Day Playbook pillar serves as a guide to put policy in place from the Mandate for Leadership on a day-by-day level.
- It provides a unified goal across governmental departments and agencies to facilitate faster decision-making and efficient execution of the next conservative administration’s agenda.
- This approach will undermine critical examination of fundamental policy changes Project 2025 proponents are attempting to make.
Project 2025’s 180 Day Playbook serves as a guide to put policies from Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership into action within the first 180 days of the next conservative administration. The playbook is organized by governmental department with specific instructions for each to most efficiently make changes aligned with Project 2025’s goals.
The primary purpose of the 180 day playbook is to quickly make changes at the start of Trump’s next term to bypass bureaucratic red tape, constitutional checks-and-balances, and scrutiny from Project 2025 opponents. By having a detailed plan of action at the start of the administration, Trump appointees and newly hired, conservative-minded federal employees will be able to change governmental systems from the inside before they can be detected.
The 180 day playbook provides a guide to align department goals, accountability, and communication for a conservative cause. Instead of being met with sluggish bureaucracy and different systems to work through for each department, Project 2025 intends to streamline government systems for speed. Although most people across the political spectrum would agree that bureaucracy hampers progress, ignoring important regulatory processes, input from non-conservative leaders, and negative effects of new policy on the average citizen will lead to a less democratic federal government.
Unlike the Mandate for Leadership, the 180 day playbook is not available publicly. This is to avoid opponents putting roadblocks in the system ahead of time and adds an extra layer of protection to their plan. The playbook claims to advocate for accountability across government sectors, but it does not provide governmental accountability for the average citizen. This is the pillar with the least publicly available information, and as such, may be the biggest threat to democracy within Project 2025.
