Project 2025: The Republican Race to Empower the Next Joseph Goebbels
Where the White House Communications Director becomes Head of Regime Propaganda (Scroll to the end to listen)
Christo-fascist Republicans have different aims from those of Nazi Germany, but the former are deploying the latter’s Weimar Republic tactics in the US today.
Fascists change the meaning of words. They normalize outrageous behaviors. They reduce their enemies to animals and “vermin.” Once they gain full power, they only tolerate one story about the regime: The story THEY endorse. And they put structural impediments in place to prevent competing narratives.
A talent for propaganda made Joseph Goebbels critical to Hitler’s success. Here’s how History.com describes Goebbels’ Nazi government position:
Goebbels was charged with presenting Hitler to the public in the most favorable light, regulating the content of all German media and fomenting anti-Semitism. Goebbels forced Jewish artists, musicians, actors, directors and newspaper and magazine editors into unemployment, and staged a public burning of books that were considered ”un-German.” He also spearheaded the production of Nazi propaganda films and other projects.
SOURCE: History.com
Project 2025 turns the White House Communications Director into a modern-day Joseph Goebbels, master of propaganda. Here’s how.
The Communications Director must convey the President’s mission to the American people. Especially for conservatives, this means navigating the mainstream media to ensure that the President’s agenda is conveyed effectively and accurately. The new Administration should examine the nature of the relationship between itself and the White House Correspondents Association and consider whether an alternative coordinating body might be more suitable.
Project 2025, page 30
The importance of the press as a guardrail for government was well known to Founders like James Madison, who said:
The people, not the government, possess the absolute sovereignty … the press has exerted a freedom in canvassing the merits and measures of public men….On this footing the freedom of the press has stood; on this foundation it yet stands.
For the press in a free society to be an effective check on public servants, they need independence and access. Dismantling this guardrail is essential to effective propaganda, a strategy Project 2025 lays out as follows:
First, Project 2025 requires the mainstream media to convey the President’s agenda effectively and accurately. Meaning media outlets that report information contrary to the regime will be, at a minimum, forced into unemployment (to use words from the referenced article at History.com.)
Second, an effective minister of propaganda must control the media’s coordinating body. If he or she cannot coerce the White House Correspondents Association to convey the President’s agenda effectively and accurately (that is, to disseminate White House propaganda in glowing terms, without question or revision,) the administration will create an alternative coordinating body to achieve complete narrative control.
Yesterday, we covered how P2025 proposes to restrict media access to the White House by claiming they have no legal requirement to provide permanent space for the media. Thus, they will expel journalists who refuse to convey the President’s agenda effectively and accurately, citing lack of space. Their alternative coordinating body will use access as a check on press freedom and independence.
While Project 2025 doesn’t call for prosecuting or incarcerating journalists, we have numerous contemporaneous examples of such oppression in authoritarian regimes.
In Russia, Alexei Navalny lost his life for challenging regime propaganda and attempting to inform Russians of regime corruption. This Associated Press article from 2018 contains a list of other Russian journalists who’ve been attacked or killed.
China has a similarly poor record for harassing, imprisoning, and executing journalists who defy directives to report the regime’s agenda effectively and accurately. In 2023, Chinese police murdered independent journalist Sun Lin by beating him to death in his home. Authoritarian regimes often use gruesome deaths as examples to silence others.
That can’t happen to journalists in America, you say?
While US journalist deaths are rare, threats, harassment, and intimidation are on the rise. More on this from NPR’s 2022 All Things Considered interview with
, a journalist and media critic who currently writes about democracy for The Guardian.Threats and intimidation of journalists is on the rise so that, you know, a local TV crew who goes out to cover a school board meeting - it would not be unusual these days for them to be bullied, intimidated, yelled at. This is something new and something that's on the rise and extremely disturbing.
SOURCE: NPR
Increasingly, threats to journalists are happening in broad daylight, anywhere, anytime, for reasons as basic as being a journalist. Much of this increase happened in 2020, our last Presidential election year.
Between 2017 and 2020, the number of attacks on journalists in the United States grew more than eight-fold, from 50 to 400, according to U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, a project of the Freedom of the Press Foundation and other media organizations.
SOURCE: US Press Freedom Tracker
Read about 2024 attacks-to-date HERE.
While the First Amendment guarantees free speech and a free press, those guarantees require respect for the rule of law. They also need an agreed-upon, undisputed truth, something our siloed populace no longer shares. It’s perfect ground for the next Joseph Goebbels to further pollute with propaganda coordinated by a Christo-fascist regime.
The NYT and other members of the MSM are asleep. They enable the psychological terrorism happening in this country. They won't define it. They know it, but the billionaire owners see dollars in clickbait news. Truth is optional. What will they do when the NYT is replaced with the Russian Times? What the fuck!! That pissant Steven Miller is the reincarnation of Goebbels. First the Christian Fascists own the judges, then the press. Lock step in their jack boots, khakis and red baseball caps that replaced the white pointy hoods. It scares the shit out of me.
Remember, an Aryan is:
Tall, like Goebbels.
Slim, like Goering.
Blond, like Hess.
Heroic, like Himmler.
Intelligent, like Ribbentrop.
Heterosexual, like Rohm and Funk.
Honest, like Hitler.
Goebbels is a perfect model for these neo-Nazis. Like the Bloated Yam, he was a serial adulterer. He also had a club foot that kept him out of the Army. A real club foot, unlike the Bloated Yam's bone spurs.