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Group says AP used clickbait to denigrate its politically conservative efforts

Group says AP used clickbait to denigrate its politically conservative efforts

Chad Groening
Sep 01, 2023
Group says AP used clickbait to denigrate its politically conservative efforts

The head of an effort to put in place a conservative governing infrastructure to replace the radical deep state in Washington, DC, isn't surprised at a biased report calling it an effort to "dismantle" the federal government.

Earlier this year, AFN reported about the 2025 Presidential Transition Project – a group of more than 50 of the leading conservative organizations and some of the top thinkers with the objective of building a better country for all Americans beginning in 2025. They want to ensure that should voters elect a conservative Republican president in November 2024, that individual will be able to hit the ground running after taking office on January 20, 2025.

Paul Dans, a former chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management during the Trump administration, now serves as the director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. He is not surprised that a recent Associated Press article described the project as nothing more than an effort to "dismantle" the federal government and replace it with a "vision" closer to Donald Trump's.

Dans, Paul (Heritage) Dans

"We can't stop the news from their characterizations, and they're obviously going to do things for clicks," Dans tells AFN. "That's really a major mischaracterization of what we're talking about – but certainly we're talking about reforming the federal government to its original constitutional design, its original, very elegant architecture that was put in place by the Founders."

Dans emphasizes the Founding Fathers designed a government structure with three branches, not four.

"… There is this fourth branch [some call] the 'administrative state' – and that is really the source of the tyrannies that we're feeling all across the 50 states right now, whether it's the medical mandates within the schools and what they're pushing on our kids," he shares. "All this comes out of the administrative state. And that's what we're talking about – and that's what's gotten their hair on fire."

Project 2025 argues that an effective conservative administration is built on four "pillars": (1) a policy agenda pulled from the expertise of the conservative movement; (2) a personnel database that ensures the right people are in place to implement that agenda; (3) training that talent pool to become effective conservative administrators; and (4) a "playbook" of actions to be taken in the first 180 days of the new administration.