Was Ana wrong?
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Project 2025 is a decades-long plan, and he distanced himself from it rhetorically to look good, but that doesn’t mean he threw it out. The America First Policy is basically Project 2025 lite, which covers the first couple of years and can seamlessly go into Project 2025. I’m a little concerned that Ana made the smug comment asking what Cenk thinks Trump will do to protesters as if she thinks nothing will happen happen and then acted like putting them in jail as terrorists wasn’t a big deal by minimizing the whole idea.
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https://aflcio.org/scorecard/legislators/lori-chavez-deremer
It looks like Tim Miller and I agree about Project 2025. However, to call Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer union and labor-friendly is a stretch at best. According to the AFL-CIO, in 2023, she voted against working people in 9 out of 10 key votes, and they only gave her a 10% rating. The PRO Act was in 2021, so I prefer to look at her more recent record. 
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Where Ana was wrong when she downplayed Project 2025 before the election was in her dismissive tone toward those of us who were alarmed by the scope and breadth of this authoritarian wishlist. And she’s made it clear post-election, she still doesn’t take the extent of the threat seriously. She thinks it’s survivable; it’s not as big a deal as “the left” she’s loudly no longer a part of thinks it is.
TYT used to be my favorite podcast. Now I hate listen. I do so only only to hear how Cenk and especially Ana react when the Trump Administration II is far worse than they acted like it would be, and certainly worse than an underperforming Harris Admin would have been. I think TYT itself could be targeted.
Regardless, I want to hear how she reacts when the fascists wield total power over America. Maybe she does make a full pivot to siding with the Republican right. But I think more likely, she’ll realize what she never should have forgotten… Liberals are terrible; Right-Wingers are far worse.
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