On July 5, 2024, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that he had “no idea who is behind Project 2025,” the nearly 900-page manifesto published in April 2023 by the conservative Heritage Foundation for use by “the next conservative president” to reshape the federal government. Trump went on to say that “some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” and that “anything they do, I wish them luck, but have nothing to do with them.”

Many voters presumably believed Trump when he said he knew nothing about Project 2025 and disavowed its objectives. Others — including non-MAGA voters — ignored Project 2025 or simply waved it away as hyperbolic fuel for the base, assuming that such a hellscape could never actually take hold in America, even under Trump 2.0.

Now, over six months into Trump’s second term, Project 2025’s roadmap for dismantling American government is 47 percent complete. That’s according to the website Project 2025 Tracker, which bills itself as a “comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025’s policy proposals.”

The website counts 317 proposals in total. So far, 115 are “complete,” including eliminating the U.S. Agency for........

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