Re: Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's work is complete. They've written the plan, and now it's up to the voters. If Republicans win, they'll implement it as far as they can. If Democrats win, it'll be consigned to the dustbin of history. So vote as if it's on the ballot, because it is.

Trump calling Project 2025 "seriously extreme" is the sort of ambiguous comment he's famous for. It reads as if he's dissing Project 2025, but it might also be a compliment. And if you look at Trump's statements about Project 2025, you'll see the same strategic ambiguity. He says he doesn't know who's behind it, but he doesn't say he won't implement it.

@1
Of course Trump won’t implement Project 2025. There are plenty of lackeys who will do that for him.
Trump will yak about sharks, electrocution, and God knows what else while gobbling up KFC.
So what if the Dems pass a conservative immigration bill. Better that than the GOP starting concentration camps for illegals and protesters.

No running? No diving? Sounds like horseplay is still fine. Or odd that only at the beach in Enumclaw?

@2 Trump's signature would be on the orders if he wins in 2024. Whether he cares about what he's signing is another issue, but he'd definitely be the one nominally in charge. Of course, if Vance (or another Republican) wins in 2028, they'd likely be just as willing to implement Project 2025.

You assume the GOP would bother setting up a camp rather than just shooting them outright.

@4
Camps = cheap labor source.
Please recall that the day after Trump was elected in 2016, the prison stocks went up.
The bullets get reserved for USA citizens protesting, after martial law is declared.

Gah, it's gonna be Shapiro who seems to have already been regarded as a front-runner pick. The Philly based announcement isn't coincidental. I know next to nothing about the guy, so can't talk trash on him, but it also seems somewhat uninspired as a pick.

If it's being done entirely to capture Pennsylvania, I'd think we had a pretty good shot at that regardless (based mostly on the Fetterman win two years ago. He was far from perfect as a candidate and won pretty convincingly.) If she really is allowing for a potential swing state to play a large role in dictating the choice, I'd think one of the upper midwestern states that are always in play would've perhaps made more sense. Or I kinda like Mark Kelly who's from Arizona and with more resume' and name recognition to go on. Whatever though, I could be completely underestimating Shapiro's appeal.

6, Shapiro makes the most sense just based on PA being in play but I just saw a list of the most recent VP announcements and none of them took place in their home state so it’s not a done deal. I suspect they won’t even know for sure who the candidate is until a day or 2 before the announcement.

2, People always say Republicans won’t do [crazy/scary/stupid thing] and those people are always proven wrong. Destroying the regulatory state and taking rights away from people has been the Republican’s primary objective since Reagan and it would be foolish to think they won’t pull the final trigger once they have the chance. If it’s not Trump it will be the next guy. They need to be shut out of power until they learn how to behave.

@5 Sigh. You're probably right. They'll deport just enough to please the base and keep the rest to steal the base's jobs. And the base will eat it up.

@6 Has that been officially announced?

@6: Fetterman won Pennsylvania by adopting a working-class, outside-the-beltway persona that appealed to Pennsylvania's purple demographics. He talked mostly about pocketbook issues and eschewed culture war talking points.
Shapiro is primarily known and loved by Pennsylvanians for his swift work fixing a collapsed bridge on I-95 in a fraction of the original estimated time, earning a reputation as an effective leader who was good in a crisis and could work across party lines to accomplish practical goals. His selection might very well win Pennsylvania for Democrats and help to otherwise soften the top of the ticket's image as an out-of-touch coastal elite who will do nothing for working people.

@8,

No, it hasn't been announced and I guess @7 could be correct and it's not a done deal. I just think the location is a pretty dead giveaway. Not just PA, but eastern PA, which just happens to be the region of the state he hails from.