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Ali Velshi Inside Project 2025 & Extremist Groups

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member on Project 2025's redirection of our national security away from extremist groups and against diversity and equity

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Ali Velshi Inside Project 2025 & Extremist Groups

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member on Project 2025's redirection of our national security away from extremist groups and against diversity and equity

This week, Ali Velshi continues his deep dive inside Project 2025, the nearly 1,000-page authoritarian blueprint for a new Trump administration. Velshi dissects the document’s carefully cloaked plan to redirect the efforts of our Department of Justice and FBI away from protecting America from extremist groups and against social justice efforts.

Should Trump win a second term — or should the country experience another contested election — we should be ready an heretofore unseen rising tide of right-wing extremist groups threatening political violence. Many of these members are within the ranks of our military and police departments. We saw on January 6 just a hint of what these organized extremists are capable of.

Project 2025 appears poised to protect these groups by shielding them from government scrutiny and downplaying their threat as “manufactured.” Rather than investigate the threats to national security and democracy, Project 2025 lays out the real threats that the nation’s highest law enforcement organizations should be focused on: DEI, affirmative action, and other social justice movements.

It is the president, the document asserts, who should decide what threats his DOJ, which he controls in this scenario, should investigate, not experts in national security, public safety, and law enforcement. The very idea that a racially and ethnically diverse, equitable society is a threat to the safety and prosperity of United States is disturbing, but that is exactly what Project 2025 declares.

LISTEN: VELSHI ON PROJECT 2025 AND EXTREMIST GROUPS

 

WATCH: VELSHI AND BARBARA McQUADE ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE

 

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