If the candidate had said it was his platform then I would have read it cover to cover just like it did Harris’ plan. I began adjusting my families investments last year because I was very concerned about the 44% taxation that was in Biden’s plans and saw Harris potentially moving that needle higher. She backed off and lowered it to 28% for the immediate future in her written plans. She ran on a published platform that citizens could judge for themselves PRIOR to elections. Trump literally stood up there and said, “maybe we do this, maybe we do that, this is a good idea, this isn’t a good idea” but he openly said he has nothing to do with Project 2025.

To be clear, I am hyper aware of the agricultural topics discussed in P2025 because I firmly believe in regenerative agriculture as the most viable path forward. I work with a ranch where we had to build up enough profit to be able to ride out the financial storm of not making profits or having crop insurance for the years that it takes to transition a farm away from the monoculture model (the only way to receive crop insurance). Monoculture crop insurance is a disastrous government policy that makes farmers welfare recipients because if there is a disaster they need the insurance. If you have a polyculture farm and do not till then you can weather environmental disasters much better and still harvest some crops but you do not qualify for crop insurance. This means you have to have enough money on the sidelines for years as the biology of your farm rebuilds itself. Once you have rebuilt the microbiology your farm begins to turn a profit again. Most small family farms DO NOT have enough money to do this and simply “ripping the bandaids off” will cause numerous families to claim bankruptcy, giving away multigenerational land to large agricultural corporations. If the rest of the ideas promoted by the academic intellectuals who formed Project 2025 in a vacuum attempt to rip bandaids off in other sectors of public/private enterprise then I believe they lack the practical knowledge of what is going on at the ground level.