The title refers to a meme going around on social media comparing the Heritage Foundations (“HF” going forward) “Project 2025” (“P25” hereafter) to Hitler’s Mein Kampf. The comparison is apt, as the neo-fascist intentions behind the more recent document are disturbingly obvious. The full text of this horrifying document continues to be downloadable,ⁱ but as more people become familiar with its contents it remains to be seen how eager HF will continue to be for people to learn what it actually says.

Critiquing the document from a philosophical, and specifically metaphysical, perspective is not difficult. The bald-faced essentialism dripping from every page is so thick in its presentation, and so breathtakingly infantile in its assumptions that it leaves one wondering how the authors ever even mastered their own toilette, much less earned advanced degrees at presumably respectable universities. One scarcely needs a background in process metaphysics to shred this fatuous, and tediously long (almost 900 pages) piece of pretentious twaddle. Consequently, I’ll waste none of my own time, much less any of yours, saying any more on the matter.

Rather, I want to drill down into a few specifics that will exemplify the general trends of this blueprint for the destruction of the Republic. I’ll have a few words of criticism along the way for critics with whom I might otherwise agree, but who have failed to do their due diligence. This document is too important, and too simply monstrous, to entertain ourselves with vague, histrionic arm wavings and dismissals. I believe it is important that we actually know what we are talking about, and then talk about it with care and accuracy. Let us then turn to the meat and potatoes: