I’ve been reading about Project 2025. This thread on Bluesky explains it well I think:

bsky.app

Some quotes:

Too strong a focus on Trump’s erratic nature and the rivalries within the Right also obscures the fact that reactionaries are actually united by their desire to punish enemies, “take back” the country, and restore the “natural order” of unquestioned white Christian patriarchal rule

The Right was not ready in 2017. They didn’t have any plans or strategies, Trump world didn’t have a clue how government worked, the extremists didn’t have the personnel to bend the state to their will and harness its powers. This will not hinder them the next time.

Other countries have gone from democracy to right wing authoritarianism. It isn’t pleasant or easy to come back from.