This article / video discusses the first edition of the Mandate for Leadership, by the Heritage Foundation and the latest edition, Project 2025. The first edition was given to Reagan, where they implemented 60% of the plan as American policy in just the first year. Now the 2025 edition is being implemented by Trump and his Congress in almost exactly the same way.
Both of these are instances of a puppet government. This is a government that is elected by the people but then serves a separate entity. That entity is “pulling their strings”, which means implementing their prewritten policies, such as the Mandate for Leadership, instead of working on behalf of their constituents.
The Reagan RepublicansWorking for the Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation boasts in the Project 2025 forward about how Reagan implemented their agenda. By the end of that year, more than 60 percent of its recommendations had become policy and they didn’t stop there.

The Trump RepublicansWorking for the Heritage Foundation
In looking at Project 2025 and comparing them to policies made since the Trump Republicans gained power, we can only come to the conclusion that the Trump Republicans are working for the Heritage Foundation exactly the way Reagan did.
The Republican VotersSwore they were not voting for a puppet government
Republican voters told their family and friends that they were not voting for this extreme agenda and now they have obvious egg on their faces. Not because they lied, but because they were lied to. I do not know a single republican that said they were voting to hand over government policy to the Heritage Foundation. Not one said they supported Schedule F or shutting down the department of education. How can Republican voters face their family and friends and tell them it is not happening when it obviously is? So now what?
Republican voters should be highly upset knowing they were were lied to. The Republican candidates lied to their constituents and said, in plain English, they were not part of the Project 2025 plan. Why did they not run on this plan if that was their plan? Because it was a lie all along, that is very clear now.
It is high time the Republican voters use that patriotic energy to go after those that lied to them instead of their friends and neighbors. Democratic and Republican voters are not enemies, we are friends and family .. our true enemy is them .. the ones pulling the strings.