To the editor: One letter writer hopes the media and others will downplay attention to Project 2025. That is an absolutely wrong approach. (“'Literally insane': Project 2025's plan to take down NOAA,” letters, Aug. 2)
To paraphrase Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Project 2025 was already the Republican Party’s governing agenda before anyone wrote it down and gave it a name.
In 2020, the Republican Party said it didn’t have a platform and would tell us what it was once it gained control. Now that the platform has been made public, its defenders see that as a mistake and want it gone.
Former President Trump now claims to reject it. The Heritage Foundation has publicly fired the director of the 2025 Project. But that doesn't mean the Republican Party's plans have changed. The party's only regret is that it made its plans public.
Let's fix that mistake and keep talking about Project 2025, because if we stop talking about it, if we let voters forget about it, it will be our future.
June Ailin Sewell, Marina del Rey
