Are Democrats as Stupid as They Appear?

The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday concerns the importance of honesty and integrity between government officials and the American people. According to Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, House Democrats held “unofficial, Democrat-only ‘hearing’” today. In doing so they “blamed abortion and Donald ‘Trump’s Project 2025’ for pregnancy-related tragedies.” They did this even though “every state law limiting abortion includes an exception to protect the life of the mother.” 

An example of the Democrat lies came from Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) who is a member of the far-left group known as “the Squad.” “Every single woman who has died from Trump abortion bans should be alive today…. What do we have instead? No compassion, no care, and no justice.”

The unofficial “hearing” was led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and hosted by the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, which is not an official House committee. The topic of discussion for the hearing was “Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation-led project that includes a book of conservative policy recommendations and a personnel database for use by the next conservative presidential administration.”

“The Dems are focusing on Project 2025 because they need a made-up bogeyman to cover up their lack of an agenda and because they hate anyone proposing real reforms that would actually drain the swamp,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told The Daily Signal. 

Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., agreed that Democrats are wasting time on Project 2025, which he said is a “menu of policy options available to any administration to come,” not “some evil hidden agenda.”

“It is absolutely beyond me that the Democrats are wasting time having a sham ‘hearing’ regarding Project 2025,” Normal told The Daily Signal. “Clearly, Democrats have never heard of presidential transition projects before … something that has been a part of our process for years.”

“Democrats ought to spend less time on their sham ‘hearing’ and more time actually reading Heritage’s ‘Mandate for Leadership.’” Norman continued. “Mandate for Leadership” is the name of the book of conservative policy recommendations, and Heritage has been producing “Mandate” since Ronald Reagan ran for president in 1980.

As evidence of the dishonesty of the Democrats, neither Trump nor “Project 2025’s materials call for a nationwide ban on abortion or on contraception.”

Project 2025 was launched by The Heritage Foundation two years ago, but Trump has distanced himself from it. There are “more than 110 conservative organizations” that worked on the project, and the “work is nonpartisan and available to whomever occupies the White House next year.