GOP Senate candidate thrashes Project 2025: It's a 'threat to our way of life'

Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) wrote a scathing review of Project 2025 in an op-ed for The Washington Post, blasting it as a "threat to our way of life" as Americans.

Project 2025, a 900-page series of government restructuring proposals laid out by the far-right Heritage Foundation, calls for Trump to replace the entire federal civil service with an army of MAGA loyalists, take direct control of the prosecutorial power of the Justice Department, and implement a wide range of hard-right policy goals ranging from the enshrinement of Christian nationalism in law, to the end of all racial equity programs, to drastic cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Trump has denied any connection to the project, but in reality many of his own former administration officials helped write it.

"To call many of these ideas 'radical' is a disservice," wrote Hogan. "In truth, Project 2025 takes many of the principles that have made this nation great and shreds them."

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It will also hurt his own state, Hogan noted, since Maryland, located right next to Washington, D.C., is a hub for federal employees.

"Republicans who believe this power grab will benefit them in the short term will ultimately regret empowering a Democratic president with this level of control," wrote Hogan. "Perhaps more troubling, Project 2025 would undermine the Justice Department by weakening its independence from the president, eliminating the norm that the White House does not intervene in federal investigations. My father was an FBI agent who believed deeply that this work should not be infected by politics. It was that approach that gave him credibility when he became the first Republican in Congress to come out in favor of the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon."

Hogan, a conservative but a frequent critic of former President Donald Trump, is running for the open Senate seat in Maryland against Democratic Prince George's County executive Angela Alsobrooks.

Polling suggests that the normally deep blue state's Senate contest is closer than is usual, likely due to Hogan's residual popularity from his time as governor, but that Alsobrooks still has a consistent lead.