The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans - The Tennessee Tribune

The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans - The Tennessee Tribune

As Donald Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down. But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members of the “deep state” with MAGA loyalists — remain. In January 2023, a group of about 15 people gathered for three days at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative Washington think tank a few blocks from the Capitol. Their aim was ambitious and farsigh…