Commentary: Republicans draw attack

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Local Republican candidates Mayra Flores and incumbent Monica De La Cruz take orders from the national MAGA Republican Party that is financing their campaigns.

The MAGA National Republican Party has come up with Project 2025. Dozens of former Trump administration officials have contributed to this 900-page policy plan. Some of the highlights, or better said lowlights, are as follows:

The plan proposes a policy that would expand presidential power and impose an ultra-conservative vision for the country. This policy would destroy the three independent and equal branches of our democratic government, executive, judicial and legislative, that we’ve had since the birth of our democracy.

There is a “secret” part of their agenda pushing a list of executive orders, allowing Trump to be the dictator he wants to be.

Project 2025 aims to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs in schools and government departments. There goes equality for all citizens.

Just like like it’s done in Russia and China, their plan proposes that the entire federal bureaucracy, including independent agencies such as the Department of Justice, be placed under direct presidential control. It also calls for eliminating job protections for thousands of government employees, who would then be replaced by political appointees loyal to Trump. Like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping do, Trump has promised to take vengeance on everyone who doesn’t worship him.

Project 2025 pledges to slash regulations and government spending.

Carbon reduction goals would be replaced by efforts to increase fossil fuel production and unfortunately increase the poisoning of air that comes with it. That means we can forget about clean air and water for our children and grandchildren in the future. Companies would not be required to provide safe working conditions or produce safe products to the public.

The plan proposes withdrawing the abortion pill mifepristone from the market. There is a reference to bolster data collection on abortion. The document suggests that the Department of Health and Human Services should “maintain a biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family,” totally destroying our constitutional separation of church and state. In other words, the Trump government would attempt to keep records of whom people can love and when American women get pregnant to make sure they don’t get an abortion no matter what the reason. They want full control of women’s bodies; how un-American is that?

Project 2025 also proposes dismantling the Department of Homeland Security and combining it with immigration enforcement units in other agencies, creating a much larger and more powerful border policing operation that would use the National Guard and U.S. military on our citizens, exactly like Russia and China do.

It is abolishing the Department of Education. The plan aims to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs in schools and government departments. Forget about equality that should be guaranteed for all American citizens.

Page 696 calls for dismantling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Weather Service; it would turn off all sources of hurricane information that warns everyone about their path. How stupid is that?

“I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social. “I have no idea who is behind it.” As usual, Trump is lying to his supporters, when his vice-president running mate J.D. Vance wrote the forward to this document.

Due to gerrymandering in congressional District 15, local Republican incumbent Monica De La Cruz does not truly represent the Rio Grande Valley. Right-wing MAGA Republicans from north of the Valley provided many votes to get her elected.

Although her campaign signs mention God, country and Family, Mayra Flores never mentions that she is a Republican. Even after all the mass killings in schools, she supports assault weapons on the streets, as demonstrated by her vote while she was a member of House of Representatives. Forget the family part. There is nothing godly about supporting a man convicted of sexual assault for president. Is that the example she sets for women and girls? Country? She’s doing the country a great disservice by supporting Trump. She totally contradicts her own slogan by her actions.

Trump brings chaos to everything he touches.

Beto Conde lives in Rancho Viejo.

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