Democrats have a platform. That is their equivalent to Project 2025, but written by the party.
Republicans only have Project 2025 because they don’t have a party platform, they gave up on that in 2020 and just go with whatever Trump vomits out. Project 2025 aligns with the things they have been trying to do for decades, which is why it is being treated as their platform.
Republicans have a 2024 platform. You can Google it.
They didn’t put one out for 2020, and said “same as 2016” I haven’t looked at their new one.
It’s like a page of high-school level ranting gibberish. I suppose that is technically a “platform” but not what people are typically thinking of.
This is the answer.
Writing a playbook is authoritarian.
We do. It’s called the Constitution of the United States of America.
Clearly, Republicans don’t care for it much.
“I don’t belong to any organized political party, I am a Democrat”
Will Rogers
Because that would be fucking weird.
Because when the Republicans are in power they fall in line, when Democrats are in power they fall in love.
To explain that last bit, Democrat candidates tend to have more direct goals, more local or state policies or projects they would like to enact. So everyone of them arrives in DC with something they are trying to do, and nothing usually happens as it requires the party to agree on it. Gathering the will to collectivly push past the GOP is usually too high of a barrier for most modest bills, especially when they are being extra obstructionist.
You don’t need a playbook to not be an arsehole.
Because it’s psychotic.
As well as the other good answers you’ve received here is also the fact that they are in power currently. If dems were out of power outside groups would be publishing policy books and papers to influence the direction going forward in the coming retool. They probably are now. But as has been said the dems have an actual platform to attack so only policy wonks and fever swamp dwellers read and attack the papers coming out of democratic leaning institutions right now.
Coming from a party convention, there’s development of what is called a “Party Platform”.
Green new deal is a thing
because Dems are suckups to the gentry.
whosawhatsit?
Even if they did, you think they’d get it released? They saw what happened to the Heritage Foundation following the leak of P’25.
if it leaks and it’s a problem, it probably isn’t a good idea to go forward with that policy.
Which, for the record, democrats aren’t likely to have a “secret manifesto of things only assholes want” for their policy guidebook. (But they do have a policy guidebook. They develop one every National Convention )
They do, it just uses the generic name “platform” to refer to their political strategy instead of naming it something ominous.
They just copy whatever the republicans were doing like 10 years ago.
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They used to rant and rave about some progressive manifesto they were worried about. It was around the time that Hilary in the primaries the first time.
I’ve never heard about that. Please cite a reputable source so I can read more about it.
I can’t find the paticular document so that’s why I had already deleted my post.
I remember it was some document that my conservative acquaintances were all worried about. When Project 2025 came to light the liberal reaction to that reminded me of the reaction at the time to Hillary’s progressive plan. Really this would have been early 2000s and a “radical progressive” agenda would probably be considered mild by most today.
