A ‘Right-Wing LinkedIn’: The Heritage Foundation’s Plan To Staff The Next Republican White House

As the old adage goes personnel is policy and the wisdom of this adage has been taken up by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation. The think tank is spearheading the creation of a mass personnel database for future Republican presidential administrations, according to Just the News. This database is just a pillar in a grand project called the 2025 Presidential Transition Project that seeks to “pave the way for an effective conservative administration: a policy agenda, personnel, training, and a 180-day playbook.” The New York Times called the database a “right-wing LinkedIn” in their article on the subject.

In The Heritage Foundation’s article on what Project 2025 was about, it noted that it was an effort that is “[o]rganized by the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has brought together 45 (and counting) right-of-center organizations that are ready to get into the business of restoring this country through the combination of the right policies and well-trained people.”

The 2025 Project was based on the mistakes conservatives made in 2016, as Heritage’s article reveals, when “American conservatives stood on the verge of greatness. The election of Donald Trump to the presidency was a triumph that offered the best chance to reverse the left’s incessant march of progress for its own sake. Many of the best accomplishments, though, happened only in the last year of the Trump administration, after our political appointees had finally figured out the policies and process of different agencies, and after the right personnel were finally in place.”

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Despite this personnel problem that the Trump administration suffered from, The Heritage Foundation professed in a press release statement that Trump still managed to “embraced nearly 64% of the 2016 [The Heritage Foundation’s Mandate For Leadership] edition’s policy solutions after one year.”

It further added that “[t]he usual suspects in the permanent political class will be ready for the next conservative administration. Will we be ready for them? That’s where Project 2025 comes in. We have two years, and one chance, to get this right.”

Dr. Kevin Roberts, the President of The Heritage Foundation, tweeted about the project: “We know what time it is; the conservative movement is on offense to restore our great nation. Thank you to all of those who have contributed to @Prjct2025 [Project 2025]. Let’s get to work!”

We know what time it is; the conservative movement is on offense to restore our great nation.

Thank you to all of those who have contributed to @Prjct2025. Let’s get to work! pic.twitter.com/zEWOSUOu3k

— Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) April 21, 2023