The right-wing agenda gets less popular the more voters learn about it, a new poll shows.

New polling out on Tuesday suggests that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s best hope for Project 2025, the far-right policy agenda that at least 140 of his former administration officials helped craft, was that most Americans would remain unfamiliar with it.

Over the past month, though, a growing number of voters have learned more about the 900-page plan spearheaded by the right-wing Heritage Foundation—and public opinion of the agenda has plummeted as it’s become more widely known.

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Just 11% of people polled viewed the agenda favorably, while 43% had unfavorable views—a 24-point increase since June.

  • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
    1621·
    4 months ago

    The best thing Project 2025 did was write down all the horrible plans they had so that people could react to it instead of dismissing opponents pointing out what the conservative talking points would actually mean in practice.

    They wrote down that they were leopards who planned to eat faces!

    • xantoxis@lemmy.world
      19·
      4 months ago

      They also gave it a catchy, vague name that people can associate anything they want with, but short enough to remember easily. No “PATRIOT Act” here. The only way they could have made it an easier target would be to call it “The Document of Sinister Evil”.

      • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
        12·
        4 months ago

        It also covers so much evil. Banning abortions, banning porn, ending the ACA, ending school funding, ending Trans rights, cutting medicare and social security, on and on and on.

        Even if you agree with some of the evil, it has so much that youre going to find something that you don’t like in it.

        It’s an easy thing to get consensus across the political sphere because there is so much hate in it.

    • ripcord@lemmy.world
      6·
      4 months ago

      Also give it a simple name and thing to focus on. Which is much much easier to describe to masses of people, and to rally around.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      51·
      4 months ago

      Lol I thought you wrote eat feces for a sec.

      Yeah I agree with you though. They got bold. They probably will keep their evil plans more under wraps in the future, unless trump wins.